Joanne Smith shares how she neglected her own needs while helping others, using the airplane oxygen mask rule to explain why self-care isn't selfish. You can't help anyone if you're depleted.
I've probably got many, many examples of where I've not been compassionate to myself. Many, many, many. Yeah, where maybe I've been the patient, but I've been looking after someone else, you know, and not putting my needs first. What do they say? Good old expression. If you're on an aeroplane and the oxygen masks come down, what would you do? Whose oxygen would you put on first? Would you run around everyone else putting— helping them putting theirs on, or would you put your own oxygen on? There you go. Amazing one. I love that one. I can't remember how many years ago it was that I first heard that one, but you put your own oxygen mask on first because if you don't, You wouldn't make it very far before you were no longer here, so you put your own oxygen mask on first.
