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.
We all have an area of our lives that challenges us more than others. When you've been trying really hard to change something in your life, and it simply won't budge (be it health, money, career, relationship)... it can leave you feeling hopeless that you'll ever have what you so deeply desire.
Those of us who've known what it's like to feel stuck for many years, we know how painful it is to be there. How massive the hopelessness can feel.
This is for you, if you've known that place, or you've been in that place.
Our western approaches to health only touch the surface of health problems:
Prescription-drugs only work to make symptoms disappear -not address the cause of the issue; and
When we try to go deeper, we typically make changes in nutrition too... and while that may help, it often doesn't get at the CAUSE of it either.
I shared this idea with my Reboot group this week and they LOVED it!
Where in your life might you need to “turn on the light”?
And if you’d like to witness my rawness at discovering my own fix-it attitude, you can read my poem below the video.
We all have a core fear. It's there even if we don't feel "afraid". Because we've lived with it our whole lives, we've become used to it. We don't notice it. The problem is this…