What Hustle Culture has Taught about the Importance of Self-Care
Hustle culture motivates people to work hard and reach their full potential. However, it can also lead to burnout and stress if you don’t allocate time to recenter and take care of yourself.
On top of finding a balance between work and home life, you must take care of yourself to nurture your health. Exercise regularly, eat a nutritious diet and prioritize self-care to live a healthy lifestyle.
What Is Hustle Culture?
Hustle culture refers to people who work hard and don’t rest enough. It can also mean giving all of yourself to your work in order to reach your goals, sacrificing everything else. The rise and grind phenomenon has caused many to glorify working hard without adequate rest.
Overworking leaves you vulnerable to severe stress, weakens your immune system and makes it challenging to process your emotions. If taking a break from work makes you feel guilty or like you’ve failed, then you’re a product of hustle culture. It’s OK to rest — in fact, it’s highly encouraged. Breaks boost your productivity and creativity and allow you to generate new ideas.
Breaks also increase your focus and can improve your mental health by alleviating stress, which benefits your overall well-being. Working hard can help you achieve success, but it can adversely affect your psychological and physical health if you don’t take care of yourself. Believe it or not, work stress has increased since 2020, when it was at an all-time high due to the pandemic. Many believe this is due to hustle culture.
Why Is Self-Care Important?
Burnout is a genuine concern that can harm your health. You can work hard and still prioritize your mental and physical well-being — it’s all about finding balance. How do you equalize work and self-care?
Find ways to prioritize self-care that resonate with you and your lifestyle. Everything around you can suffer if you don’t attend to your physical, mental and spiritual needs. Self-care can look different for everyone — people refuel, recharge and reset in myriad ways. What helps you find your center and recharge your batteries?
You can take a mental health day and take pleasure in having no plans for once. Declutter your home and make it a calming space. Binge-watch your favorite shows on Netflix while you give yourself a mani-pedi. Apply a face mask to nourish your skin and follow up with a skin care routine. Soak in a lavish bubble bath with some scented candles burning and your favorite songs playing in the background. Prioritize whatever self-care looks like for you so you can maximize your life.
Self-care helps alleviate the stress that naturally comes with a nonstop lifestyle caused by hustle culture. It reenergizes you and promotes rest and relaxation. Self-care also enables you to maintain resilience by providing an outlet for accumulated stress that can manifest in many ways that are bad for your health.
The Importance of Self-Care
Self-care has many benefits for your overall health, like boosting your self-esteem, productivity and mental well-being. It’s vital to your mental health. Prioritize self-care and overcome hustle culture by utilizing these tips and showing yourself some love.
Cora Gold is the Editor-in-Chief of women’s lifestyle magazine, Revivalist. She has a passion for writing about ways to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life, especially for new moms.
