What real self care looks like – and how to practise it

Plus, TK Maxx therapy, solo cinema and other unexpected things we do to look after ourselves.

A fact I’ll never unlearn about self care is where it came from. Not from a marketing meeting, as I’d always assumed, but instead in the wards of a psychiatric hospital. When I discovered this while researching my book Alonement, it transformed how I view – and practise – self care.