A YouTube video (creator: Dr. Tabatha Barber) discussing how societal and familial expectations lead women to deprioritize self-care, feel disconnected, and experience guilt or resentment. The speaker frames self-care as often labeled "selfish" for women who are socialized to put others first and highlights emotional consequences of neglecting personal needs.
There's a lot of reasons that we can be struggling emotionally and having this feeling of being disconnected, or we have social expectations. As women, we have to juggle all of these things and fulfill these roles. And it's very much ingrained in us to put our family first, our parents, everybody first, and us last. And that can lead into lack of self care. Having these societal expectations that we can multitask and run the show and handle everything seeps into this idea of self care is selfish. And so we end up not giving ourselves what we need, and that leaves us feeling very disconnected and often resentful.
