Self-Care Isn’t Working

When you believe that you’re broken, all the bubble baths in the world won’t fix you

Catherine Andrews
Forge
Published in
5 min readSep 28, 2020

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Book, cup of tea, candles, and decorative flower next to a bathtub.
Photo: Maddi Bazzocco/Unsplash

As a life coach, I’m seeing it daily: Clients who’ve been doing all the self-care are coming to me feeling totally burned out, anxious, and not at all nourished by the things they’re doing to feel better. Self-care seems to have stopped working.

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Catherine Andrews
Forge
Writer for

Teaching awakening + healing through vulnerability + self-compassion. Finding hope in a messy world. Author of the Sunday Soother. http://catherinedandrews.com