Pick Your Player: Which Self-Care Archetype Are You?
Six you'll recognize—maybe all in yourself.
Dear Reader,
Self-care means something different for each of us. Maybe it’s a moonlit gua sha ritual, or a meandering walk with a podcast and a blissful disregard for the dishes piling up at home.
We all have our own ways of coming back to ourselves, however imperfect or surprising they might be.
This isn’t science. It’s not a prescription. Just a loving, wildly unscientific guide to the versions of us that appear when we finally decide to “take care.”
Pick your player. Or claim them all—no rules here.
The Clean-Eating Experimenter
Believes the gut is the second brain—and maybe the first. Captures her grocery hauls like Paris Fashion Week. Ferments something weekly. Her supplement cabinet rivals a small pharmacy (complete with a label maker). Treats her ozone fruit washer like a status symbol—and won’t let you forget it. Casually drops “supporting your lymph” and “nourishing mitochondria” into small talk.
Carries: a swamp-colored smoothie, suspiciously crunchy crackers “from a friend’s recipe,” and the moral high ground of someone who has a favorite adaptogen.
The Emotional Purger
Swears that writing it all down can fix almost anything. Journals by morning light and burns letters under full moons. Will cry at a Subaru commercial and call it “moving energy.” Keeps voice notes to herself that sound like therapy sessions. Cries in actual therapy for sport.
Carries: a journal that’s been through it, a tear-streaked jade quartz roller, and a Spotify playlist titled “Feel It All.”
Keep reading to meet the rest of the characters (and shop their self-care essentials)—including The Sleep Evangelist, The Bath Ritual Priestess, The Spa Devotee, and The Movement Romantic.
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