Self-care! It’s not just for rich white ladies with 100,000 Instagram followers!
Self-care is for you.
Yes you. As hard as it may be to believe when you’re at your worst and feeling low, you deserve a little care and maintenance now and again.
And we want you to have it. So here it is, children: the complete works of the Bitches on self-care, personal betterment, and making your life happier, healthier, and wealthier.
You’ve earned it.
Take care of your body
- Take a Break: The Importance of Rest and Relaxation
- I Think I Need to Go the Emergency Room?
- Run With Me If You Want to Save: Exercising Will Save You Money
- Take Advantage of No-Copay Medical Care
- Ask the Bitches: Ugh, How Do I Build the Habit of Taking Meds?
- Blood Money: Surviving Your Period While Poor
- On Pulling Weeds and Fighting Back: How (and Why) to Protect Abortion Rights
- Ask the Bitches: How Can I Survive in an Apartment with No Heat?
Take care of your mind
- Our Master List of 100% Free Mental Health Self-Care Tactics
- How Mental Health Affects Your Finances
- Ask the Bitches: “How Do I Protect My Own Mental Health While Still Helping Others?”
- Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos and Your Big Brain
- Everything Is Stressful and I’m Dying: How to Survive a Panic Attack
- Stop Recommending Therapy Like It’s a Magic Bean That’ll Grow Me a Beanstalk to Neurotypicaltown
- Making Decisions Under Stress: The Siren Song of Chocolate Cake
- Ask the Bitches: I Know How to Struggle and Fight, but I Don’t Know How to Succeed
- Ask the Bitches: How Can I Absolve Myself of Financial Guilt Over My Pricey PS4?
- The Frugal Introvert’s Guide to the Weekend
Take care of your time
- Stop Measuring Your Time in Beyoncé Hours
- Help! I’m Procrastinating and I Can’t Get Up!
- You Won’t Regret Your Frugal 20s
- Actually, Fuck Big Goals
- How to Insulate Yourself From Ads
- I’ve Succeeded at Every New Year’s Resolution I’ve Ever Made. Here’s How.
- Romanticizing the Side Hustle
- Eight (Free) Time Management Systems to Try in 2020
- My 25 Secrets to Successfully Working from Home with ADHD
Take care of your career
- High School Students Have No Way of Knowing What Career to Choose. Why Do We Make Them Do It Anyway?
- The Actually Helpful, Nuanced, Non-Bullshit Way to Choose a Future Career
- Woke at Work: How to Inject Your Values into Your Boring, Lame-Ass Job
- Are You Working on the Next Fyre Festival?: Identifying a Toxic Workplace
- My Secret Weapon for Preparing for Awkward Boss Confrontations
- Freelancer, Protect Thyself: The Importance of a Fair Contract
- Confession: I Hate My Job and I Don’t Know How to Leave It
- A New Job, a New Day, a New Life, and I’m Feeling Good
- Season 1, Episode 9: “I’ve Given up on My Dream Career. Where Do I Go From Here?”
Take care of your space
- Leaving Home before 18: A Practical Guide for Cast-Offs, Runaways, and Everybody in Between
- Ask the Bitches: I Want to Move Out, but I Can’t Afford It. How Bad Would It Be to Take out Student Loans to Cover It?
- How to Successfully Work from Home Without Losing Your Goddamn Mind (Or Your Job)
- How to Maintain the Car You’re Barely Driving
Take care of your people
- How Dafuq Do Couples Share Their Money?
- Ask the Bitches: “How Do I Protect My Own Mental Health While Still Helping Others?”
- How Can I Tame My Family’s Crazy Gift-Giving Expectations?
- Ask the Bitches: I Was Guilted Into Caring for a Sick, Abusive Parent for Years. Now What?
- Love in the Time of Coronavirus: How to Protect Your Community and Your Soul from COVID-19
Take care of your financial well-being
- Ask the Bitches: How Can I Make Myself Financially Secure Before Age 30?
- How to Save for Retirement When You Make Less Than $30,000 a Year
- Ask the Bitches: Is It Too Late to Get My Financial Shit Together?
- Slay Your Financial Vampires
- Should Artists Ever Work for Free?
- Don’t Spend Money on Shit You Don’t Like, Fool
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Financial Math
- Share My Horror: The World’s Worst Debt Visualization
- Stop Undervaluing Your Own Work, You Darling Fool
We will periodically update this list with newer articles. And by “periodically” I mean “when we remember that it’s something we forgot to do for four months.”
Bitches Get Riches: setting realistic expectations since 2017!
Bless you for this
And blessings be unto you, my child.
amazing thank you