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More Captive Than Client
Have you ever felt more like a captive than a client during a personal service treatment, such as a pedicure?
“We have all been asked to wrestle with a false dilemma: being kind to ourselves or being kind to others. In truth, though, being kind to ourselves is a prerequisite to being kind to others.”
– Mark Nepo, “The Book of Awakening”
At the risk of sounding like a spoiled brat…
Who has nothing better to do than gripe about silly matters when the world continues to be turned upside down by one serious issue after another, I do have an observation I would like to share.
But first…
Full disclosure (literally): I suspect this little blog about boundaries will be of more interest to female readers than male. So if you are a guy reading this, feel free to exit.
I wish I could’ve.
Exit the situation, that is…the one I found myself in recently. AGAIN.
But you see, therein lies the problem: I couldn’t leave the situation. That’s the point of this rant…the driving question I have for readers:
