Self Care Karen. Channeling my Inner Mom.

Dream Bathtub

My mom took a bath every night. After giving myself the time and space for a bath at the end of a week where Breonna Taylor didn’t get justice, RBG was laid out in repose, and an ultra-right-wing conservative who wants to dismantle Roe v Wade will likely be our next Supreme Court Justice, I decided maybe a bath was in order. 

I channeled my inner Mom while taking this relaxing bath, and realized that everyone is exhausted. 

Is there a possibility that if all the white daughters have honest conversations with their mothers, and if they tell their mothers they do not want to fight against them, that there could be a paradigm shift?

As I sat there taking time for myself, I realized that my mom likely felt a bath was a luxury, as I know she didn’t have a bathtub growing up. And like all mothers, she probably took this time as a time for herself every day. I never really looked at it this way, but my mom was giving herself #selfcare before it was trendy.

I wonder what she’s been thinking about in those baths in all those years?