A short excerpt from a YouTube presentation by Dr. Tabatha Barber arguing that individuals should prioritize self-care ("put your oxygen mask on first") and rejecting societal messaging that one must put oneself last. The speaker frames self-care as both practical and divinely supported, stating that God desires people to care for themselves rather than self-sacrifice.
The old adage from the airplane, put your oxygen mask on first, literally, is the way to live. That is exactly how you need to think about it. You need to fill yourself up before you fill up your children and your husband and your friends and anyone else in your life, and definitely before any work in your life, you come first. God promises that of you. He wants that of you. So we have to just get rid of all these lies that have been embedded into us through society, that we're supposed to put ourselves last. That is not what God wants at all, actually.
