{ MASTERPOST } Everything You Need to Know about Self-Care

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

• Why You Should 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: How Exercising Will Save You Money
• Your Yearly Free Medical Care Checklist
• Ask the Bitches: Ugh, How Do I Build the Habit of Taking Meds?
• Blood Money: Menstrual Products for 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?
• The Expensive Difference Between Recreation and Recovery 

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
  • Update: 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

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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 Advertisements
• I’ve Succeeded at Every New Year’s Resolution I’ve Ever Made. Here’s How.
• Romanticizing the Side Hustle: When 1 Job Isn’t Enough
• 8 Free Time Management Systems To Try in the New Year
• My 25 Secrets to Successfully Working from Home with ADHD 
• I Am So Over Productivity Porn 

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… With a Fair Contract
• I Hate My Job and I Don’t Know How To Leave It: A Confession
• 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?”
• How Abusive Workplaces Mirror Abusive Relationships 

Take care of your space

• How to Successfully Work from Home Without Losing Your Goddamn Mind (Or Your Job)
• 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 Maintain Your Car When You’re Barely Driving It

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. Now What?
• Love in the Time of Coronavirus: How to Protect Your Community and Your Soul from COVID-19
• Be Somebody’s Eliza with a Simple Yet Life-Changing Act of Kindness 
• The Ultimate Guide to Helping a Sick Friend 
• Learning To Reverse the Golden Rule
• I Have Become the Rich Relative I Always Wanted  

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 at the World’s Worst Debt Visualization
• Stop Undervaluing Your Freelance Work, You Darling Fool
• A (Somewhat) Comprehensive List of Fun Job Perks that Won’t Pay Your Rent

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.”

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