Love Yourself NOW
Cultivating Self-Care & Self-Love is the Most Important Part of Your Personal Development Journey
All other relationships come and go. The only one that truly lasts is the one we have with ourselves.
When we can learn to accept ourselves without any criticism or self-judgment, we unconsciously permit others to do the same. Our inner light shines brighter, and we attract those who also have that inner peace that only comes from deep within. The fantastic thing is that we possess it, and nobody can take that away from us. It's ours forever unless we choose to give it up.
For me, I've learned to honor and love myself by creating healthy boundaries with others. I am loyal to my personal needs before addressing the needs of others. This is a choice I am constantly challenged with since I have had children and am dedicated to a career that involves supporting others in creating health and overcoming hardship. But every time I choose self-love by putting my needs first, I am stronger and more capable of helping others than I would have been had I attempted to meet their needs and neglect my own.
Self-care is evident in some places like air travel, where we are instructed to place the oxygen mask on ourselves before attempting to help a child or another. Yet, in our regular lives, collectively, we seem to put the needs of work, school, family, social obligations, and even housekeeping before we take care of the fine details of our own self-care. Is it a surprise we are falling ill regularly? We are neglecting the temple in which our spirit lives. We deny our emotions and distract ourselves with business. Essentially, we are cheating on our higher selves. We are also unconsciously teaching our children to put others' needs in front of their own.
I think it's time we get our priorities straight.
Self-Care Tools
Self-love is not selfish; it's responsible. It's honoring yourself and your human needs.
“We often give away oceans of ourselves, for a single raindrop of acceptance.” — Topher Kearby
“May we learn to find ways to cultivate the waters of our Self-Love through grace-filled, compassionate discernment.
May we learn to lovingly acknowledge and forgive the parts of ourselves that have accepted anything less than fully embodied, celebrated, honoring love, from those who were simply too wounded to see or act beyond the filter of their pain.
May we learn to not settle for the muddied sea foam of discontent, merely because it’s washed upon our shores, and we don’t feel strong enough to swim into the often miraculous depths of the infinite unknown.
May we find ways to attune to the frequency of our soul’s consistent nudgings, even when its clarion call has felt like a distant song inside of an endless, muffled sea of silence.
No matter how lost we may feel, and no matter how much time we’ve spent in despair or hopelessness, our Soul’s Source of Divine Truth is still here. It is authentically present, and never judges our process or our timelines.
It is always actively aligned on our behalf...and is forever lovingly, irrefutably, calling us Hohm.”
— Kiana Luna