self-care

[ self-kair ]

/ ˈsɛlfˈkɛər /

care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.

Words nearby self-care

When men cease to rob women of their earnings they will find them generally, as thousands now are, capable of self-care.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) |Various
With sadness let us confess that our age is sinning grievously against this principle of self-care and self-love.

A Man's Value to Society |Newell Dwight Hillis
There was growing within his breast a self-care and a self-reliance.

William Lloyd Garrison |Archibald H. Grimke
For what are self-control and self-care, but the just fruits of intelligence?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 |Various

She had never learned the ABC of woman's wisdom, the steady cult of self-care, self-beautifying, self-refining.

The Brimming Cup |Dorothy Canfield Fisher

self-care

The care of oneself without medical, professional, or other assistance or oversight.