It’s tough to practice real self-care when the internet’s obsessed with #selfcare. Let Mashable help with our new series Me, My Self-Care & I.

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As the concept of self-care has spiralled out from the original definition, one of its new mutant meanings stands out: Self-care is actually just self-parenting. 

It’s the care in caretaking, being the stern but loving voice in your own head that fights the whining kid who doesn’t wanna — telling yourself to go to bed at a sensible hour, not eating Froot Loops for dinner, going to the doctor when you need to, wearing the warmer coat, whatever the 2019 equivalent of balancing your checkbook is. It’s keeping yourself safe and healthy and all the other things on that second floor of the Maslow pyramid. Read more…

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