Self Love
How to Change Myself for Deeper Intimacy and Lasting Love
The thought “how to change myself” doesn’t usually show up on a good day. It comes after the same disappointment hits one time too many. Sometimes your life looks fine on paper, but it no longer feels satisfying. Did you choose to become this person, or did you just end up here? For some people,…
Read MoreWhat Is Happiness? How to Cultivate More of It in Life and Love
What is happiness? What is it really? We use the word so easily, as if we all share the same definition of happiness. We say we want to be happy, want our children to be happy, and wonder whether our relationships make us happy. We expect that others know exactly what we mean. We think…
Read MoreSelf Love for Men: 9 Powerful and Potent Practices
Sadly, for many, the idea of self love for men seems like an oxymoron. Our society overall tends to believe that only women engage in self love. Yet this perspective has caused much harm to men. It’s a harm that many men themselves would not recognize and might even deny for fear of somehow being…
Read MoreHow to Love Yourself: A Prerequisite to Lasting Relationships
Learning how to love yourself changes the way you show up in relationships as well as the depth of intimacy you are able to experience. Yet many of us do not enter relationships feeling secure in who we are. Part of learning how to love yourself is noticing where you still look for reassurance that…
Read MoreLetting Go of Someone You Love (A Step-by-step Guide)
Letting go of someone you love means honoring what was while making room for future possibilities. It’s not about forgetting or pretending it didn’t matter. It’s the shift from holding on to what you hoped things could be to accepting what is, even when part of you still wants it to be different. You may…
Read MoreHow to Practice Self Compassion: 10 Kind Acts and 33 Loving Statements
Learning how to practice self compassion offers us the most potent pathway to healing and transformation. If we have a part of ourselves that we wish we could change, if we hold emotions that hurt, if we want to stand as a greater and more powerful version of ourselves, then, in all of these cases,…
Read MoreSelf Worth: How Valuing You Improves Your Love Life
Our relationship to our self worth directly impacts the way we experience and metabolize our life and the relationships in it. The presence or absence of it, within our own personal consciousness, dictates how many risks we will take, and therefore how many successes we may have. Our embodiment of self worth also determines how…
Read MoreWhat is Self Love? The Ultimate Path to Authenticity, Fulfillment, & Romance
Having the courage to ask “What is self love?” opens the door to not only peace and joy, but to a life that regularly leaves us feeling grateful and blessed. At first the connection between self love and an amazing life may not seem obvious. For some, it might even seem counterintuitive, believing instead that…
Read MoreSelf Respect: How to Cultivate It and Why You Must Have It
Our capacity for self-respect lies at the heart of our ability to feel confident, take appropriate action, feel truly loved, and experience genuine fulfillment. Yes, every good thing in life requires self-respect. With that being said, some people struggle to give themselves this truly important gift of love. Most don’t realize its absence until they’ve…
Read MoreSelf Love Guided Meditation: How to Practice and the 11 Primary Benefits
Regularly practicing a self love guided meditation brings benefits to every area of our life, including benefits we can’t even imagine before starting. Whether we realize it or not, self love lies at the heart of literally everything. Our capacity for self love impacts our moods, inspiration, motivation, and confidence. It impacts our reactions, anxieties,…
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