The Torah tells us to love our friend as we love ourselves
That gives us lots of work to do
The loving of ourselves
Putting ourselves and our needs first
Hard to do when society teaches us to
First be good wives and mothers
Not so much talk about the extra person who needs care
Ourselves
So maybe it’s not ok to eat kids leftovers
For our meals
And to keep doing the same things over and over each day
Laundry, meals, dishes, grocery orders
And realize just before we drift off to sleep
That we’ve done nothing for self care
Haven’t tuned in to check how we are feeling
In order to love our friends
Our family
Our community
It needs to start with us
This is an eternal truth
Straight from our Torah
It doesn’t lie
We know that
So we need to remember that
Every day
Making sure that we are one of people we care for tenderly
All the time