Being Sweet and Kind to Ourselves

I think "self love" might be such a cliche that we skip right over it.

We're so busy in our lives and focused on goals. Even my spiritual practice and my healing is lacking self love and self appreciation. I always just declared that I had high self esteem and left it at that. But self love is a lot more than that, it seems. We need nurturing. This society is a cold one, and I don't think we really understand how cold it is.

Are you ever sweet to yourself? Do you ever talk to yourself in a nurturing kind of way? It's something I've been incorporating into my daily existence this week.

I googled self love practices and it included things like baths and buying ourselves flowers. But I think it's so much more about the tone we speak to ourselves in, acknowledging our brilliance with some recognition and a compliment, just stopping for a few minutes to appreciate our bodies and feel gratitude for them and gratitude for our lives and who we are. I don't think we need to stand in front of a mirror and look into our eyes and say seven reasons we love ourselves. I guess I want to love myself without reasons.

I do love myself. Unconditionally. But I'm a pretty harsh critic. And I push.

Going out of my way for me and to just appreciate myself seems like something that will make me really healthy moving forward.

I'm eager to see how this will change my life. I know it's going to make it so much richer.

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