What does self-love really mean and how do you love yourself?
Why is it so important, and why is it that we associate self-love with selfishness?
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I wanted to share some thoughts on accessing self-love, realizing why it’s so important, and three meaningful avenues for expressing your love for yourself.
As you may know from my last blog post, I’ve been moving through deep grief in the past few months. And even though I’ve been finding some wonderful gifts brought about by the process of grief, it also gets quite crushing and I needed something to help me reset.
So I went to Ireland for twelve days.
The initial impetus for the trip was to …
What if loving yourself first and foremost is NOT selfish?
What if the ONLY way in which you can truly love others is by loving yourself first?
I know this sounds counter to what many of us were taught. We've learned that it's selfish to put ourselves first, especially when you're a parent.
Many of us in the western world were raised hearing this Christian maxim:
Say, what?!
That's right. I want to invite you to toss 99% of your resolutions out the window.
Why?
More often than not, resolutions (1) arise from dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs, and (2) have an inherent "fix-it" approach.