The Difference Between Self Care and Self Help

World health organization defines self care as ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health. In contemporary parlance, the term self help is associated with actions and interventions that a person can take on their own or with guided literature. And one big thing i'm pulling from this, and i think that we should really try to walk away from this episode with is that self care and self help operate in different levels of the improvement or the maintenance stack. So it's not actually about improvement. It’s not actually about being better than you were yesterday. It's not about anything that has to do with making progress. It is caring about your it is, by definition, establishing a base