Spaciousness is Real Self-Care

(It's way more helpful than all the self-care stuff sold in social media ads.)

Over the last two weekends, I had the privilege and pleasure of being invited to two beautiful places: woodsy western Massachusetts and mountainous northern Vermont. One of the trips was a weekend of service, where I volunteered and cooked for a hardworking crew of thirty; the other was the celebration of a dear friend’s 50th birthday.

During both of th…