Susie TaaffeChief of Staff, RAMMP · Chief of Staff & Strategic Operator | AI-First | RAMMP | Building What Doesn’t Exist Yet

Self Care = loving yourself enough to invest space, time & resources to make yourself feel good! 🥰

17 Mar 2026 · 2 min

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In this short YouTube monologue, Susie Taaffe (host of "Susie Unshaped") shares a personal insight that reframes self‑care. She argues that self‑care is not defined by specific activities like baths or massages, but by the act of loving oneself enough to allocate time, space, and resources toward actions that simply make you feel good. She illustrates the concept with a concrete, everyday example: instead of rushing through a shower, deliberately extending it to savor the sensation of the water. The core message is that self‑care equals self‑love—any intentional, present activity that brings personal joy or comfort is a valid form of self‑care. The video ends with an encouraging reminder to invest in oneself in whatever way feels right.

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Hello, welcome to Susie Unshaped. And I just had to— like, I just had this realization. I don't know, this is going to sound really silly to other people, but self-care— you know when people talk about self-care and like when you say self-care it could spring to mind like a bath or a facial or a massage or a whatever self-care means to you? And then I just had the realization today that Self-care. It doesn't matter what the actual action is. It's the self-care is actually about loving yourself enough, loving yourself enough to give yourself the time, space, resources to do whatever it is. That will make you feel good. So that's it. Self-care. It's just the— it's the self-love to invest in yourself. And whether that just is like— it can be as small as like, I remember, um, saying how like, you know, you might rush through a shower and you're not present and you're not even thinking about it. It might just be like, okay, I'm not going to have a 30-second shower. I'm going to have A 3-minute shower, and I'm gonna stand under that water, and I'm going to enjoy, like, how good the water feels. Like, I'm just going to— like, do you know what I mean? It's allowing yourself the space and time to do something that brings you joy and makes you feel good. It doesn't have to bring you— just makes you feel good. You're investing in your— in feeling good within yourself. Okay, that's all I had to do. Self-care is just investing in you however that feels good. Bye.