Diario de EvaSieteTres, 05 dic. 19

IN ENGLISH BELOW (long post)

Aviso: texto largo.
He encontrado un texto en inglés que me ha encantado porque, aunque de primeras parece una cursilería, en realidad nos recuerda cosas importantes. He querido compartirlo con las muchas personas de FS a las que tengo cariño, así que lo he traducido. Espero que también os guste.

"El autocuidado es a menudo una cosa muy poco bella.

Es hacer una hoja de cálculo de tus deudas y hacerte cumplir una rutina matutina y cocinar comidas saludables y dejar de huir de tus problemas llamando solución a la distracción.

A menudo es hacer lo más feo que tienes que hacer, como sudar en otra sesión de ejercicios o decirle a un amigo tóxico que ya no quieres verlo o conseguir un segundo trabajo para que puedas tener una cuenta de ahorros o encontrar una manera de aceptarte a ti misma para que no estés constantemente agotada de tratar de serlo todo, todo el tiempo y luego tener que tomar descansos deliberados y obligatorios de la vida para hacer cosas básicas como verter un poco de aceite en el baño y leer el Marie Claire y apagar el teléfono por un día.

Un mundo en el que el autocuidado tiene que ser un tema tan de moda es un mundo enfermo. El autocuidado no debe ser algo a lo que recurrimos porque estamos tan absolutamente exhaustas que necesitamos un poco de alivio de nuestra implacable presión interna.

El verdadero cuidado personal no son los baños de sal y la tarta de chocolate, es tomar la decisión de construir una vida de la que no necesites escapar regularmente.

Y eso a menudo requiere hacer lo que menos quieres hacer.

A menudo significa mirar tus fracasos y desilusiones a los ojos y reorientar tus estrategias. No es saciar tus deseos inmediatos. Es dejar ir. Es elegir de otra manera. Es decepcionar a algunas personas. Es hacer sacrificios por otras. Es vivir de una manera que otras personas no lo harán, de modo que tal vez puedas vivir de una manera que otras personas no pueden.

Es dejarte ser normal. Estándar. No excepcional. A veces es tener una cocina sucia y decidir que tu meta final en la vida no va a ser tener abdominales y estar al día con tus falsos amigos. Es decidir cuánta de tu ansiedad proviene de no actualizar su potencial latente, y cuánta proviene de la forma en que te enseñaron a pensar antes incluso de que supieras qué estaba sucediendo.

Si te encuentras en una situación en la que te tienes que concederte regularmente autocuidado de consumo, es porque estás desconectada del autocuidado real, el cual tiene muy poco que ver con el "darte un capricho" y mucho que ver con ser como una madre para ti misma y tomar decisiones para tu bienestar a largo plazo.

Es no utilizar tu vida frenética e irracional como justificación para el autosabotaje en forma de alcohol y procrastinación. Es aprender a dejar de tratar de "repararte" y empezar a cuidarte a ti misma... y tal vez encontrar que cuidarte amorosamente se ocupa de muchos de los problemas que estabas tratando de arreglar en primer lugar.

Significa ser el héroe de tu vida, no la víctima. Significa recablear lo que tienes hasta que tu vida diaria no sea algo de lo que necesites terapia para recuperarte. Ya no se trata de elegir una vida que se vea bien por encima de una vida que se sienta bien. Es renunciar a algunas metas para que puedas preocuparte por otras. Es ser honesta incluso si eso significa que no eres universalmente querida. Es satisfacer tus propias necesidades para que no te sientas ansiosa y dependiente de otras personas.

Es convertirte en la persona que sabes que quieres y que estás destinada a ser. Alguien que sabe que los baños de sales y el pastel de chocolate son formas de disfrutar de la vida, no de escapar de ella".

-Brianna Wiest
- imagen de Yaoyao Ma

***ENGLISH VERSION****

Warning: long text.
I found a text that I loved because, although at first it looks twee, it actually reminds us of important things. I wanted to share it with the many people at FS whom I cherish. I hope you like it too.

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
-Brianna Wiest
-Illustration by Yaoyao Ma

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Comentarios 
Thank you for translating that into English 😍 it’s a great post I’d like to share with all my girl friends that I see getting stuck in a self made rut, that I also get caught up in ❤️🧡💛 
09 dic. 19 por el miembro: CrashtestDawnie
I am glad you like it, Dawnie! It's a powerful text that can help people improve. Sharing is caring! 
09 dic. 19 por el miembro: EvaSieteTres
Eva - I'm going to pay more attention to how I write because I always consider myself the most 'self pampering person alive.' And I am constantly praying my gratitude for the blessings that were and continued to be bestowed upon me. I type this quietly because I don't want to tempt fate, but I cast about my life and home thinking of things I want and need - and more and more lately the answer is 'nothing. You have every thing you need.'  
10 dic. 19 por el miembro: FullaBella
I also recognize I have had very little desire to travel for several months now because I am completely pampered, safe, warm, fed, soothed and more in my own home. So I have made my life something I don't want to escape from at all. I do love this text so much - I do. 
10 dic. 19 por el miembro: FullaBella
And yes... I understand the difference between 'commercial care' and 'self care' but I do both. Soothing massage AND being comfortable in my own solitude when all of society expects me to 'get out there, mingle, date, have a companion'.  
10 dic. 19 por el miembro: FullaBella
I guess the key is, precisely, being aware of the difference and choosing deliberately when is the best moment for each one. 
10 dic. 19 por el miembro: EvaSieteTres

     
 

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