We’re living in a culture right now that has a pretty contentious relationship with caring.
Caring about other people, caring about causes, caring about what others think and feel.
We’re living in a time and place where there are repetitive messages out there telling us that the more mature we are, the more self loving we are, the more we are grounded in our true selves - the less we’re going to care about what’s going on ‘out there’ - because we’re going to be so busy ‘staying in our own lane’ and taking care of ourselves that we won’t have the time to care so much about everything else.
We’re getting messages from the self help and spirituality world that the more we ‘do our work’ the less the circumstances around us and the people around us are going to affect us, and the more we’re going to be able to just do our own thing and thrive.
In a lot of ways, we’re being taught that to care is to be weak, to lack boundaries, to be unhealthy in some way.
Now, on the one hand, of course there are seeds of truth to this - if we are spending too much of our time with our focus on the external world, we are of course going to run into imbalance, stress and a situation where we ARE caring too much about what others think and feel to the detriment of ourselves.
But.
This doesn’t actually mean that we should be trying to NOT care.
That turning off our sensitivity, shutting down our hearts and trying to focus just on ourselves is a healthy alternative.
Today I want to explore what it looks like to be someone who deeply cares, to be someone who really DOES give many ‘F9cks’ - but that does so in a way that’s actually helpful for the world around us and not totally draining for us personally.
Not caring isn’t the solution we think it is - so let’s explore what HEALTHY care looks like together today.
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