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The Self-Care Lie (and How to Untangle It)

“I sometimes feel like a parody of a therapist,” says Annie, a therapist of four years, who works mainly with patients who struggle with chemical dependency. She began to notice this insecurity in the past year or two, after she’d started running group therapy sessions with greater frequency. She found herself pausing before using certain key terms in her profession, like “self-care” and “mindfulness.” “It feels like I’m in a movie, like I’m saying what a therapist is supposed to say, if that make sense.”

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