self-care
自我保健,自我照顾,自我护理,自理
Definitions
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- : the act of attending to one’s physical or mental health, generally without medical or other professional consultation: It’s been a rough week, so this weekend is all about self-care through exercise.
- : the products or practices used to comfort or soothe oneself: Seeing friends is my self-care.Taking a bath is a great self-care activity when you’re feeling stressed.
Examples
Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.
We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.
Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
I do not care very much how you censor or select the reading and talking and thinking of the schoolboy or schoolgirl.
At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.