A short transcript excerpt from Misty Tripoli’s YouTube video arguing that being "healthy selfish"—prioritizing daily self-care—allows you to show up more authentically and lovingly for others. She uses her own daily practice (dancing) as an example and frames the message particularly toward women, urging them to treat themselves as the most important person in their lives.
Because we all know it, but I'm going to repeat it, is that you can't be anything for anyone until you have taken care of you. And the beautiful thing is that every single person in your life, all the people you over committed yourself to, they're all going to benefit if you actually become a little healthy, selfish. So for instance, let's say you have a relationship, you have a partner, or, and we're talking it can be any relationship, relationship with your mother, relationship with your lover, relationship with people at work, whatever it might be. And if you take the time, every day for me, one thing, one of my peace. And so I know that like when I do things, like when I dance, I feel peaceful. I come to a very peaceful, beautiful place so that I know that when I communicate with people, I can do it in a peaceful way. So everyone in my life, my mom, my sisters, my friends, my everyone are gonna benefit if I make sure I dance every day. But that's my responsibility so that I don't have to put the fake face on, I don't have to put the front on in my life. And I can actually be authentically peaceful and authentically loving or authentically whatever, because I've done what I need to do now. The hard part is us as women is actually taking a stand and saying, o, you know what? I am the most important person in my life because you are. But we don't treat ourselves as if we're the most important person in our lives.
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