Good Inside refuses the fantasy that parental self-erasure helps children. A depleted parent is harder to locate, quicker to react, and less able to offer the sturdy leadership a child needs.
Self-care therefore is not a selfish add-on but part of maintaining a safe family system. The parent who can breathe, permit their own feelings, and keep promises to themself becomes more trustworthy to everyone else too.
This is a ministry principle as much as a parenting one. Leaders who never replenish eventually ask others to live inside their depletion.