How Do We Love ALL Of Ourselves?

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope today’s Hallmark holiday serves as a reminder to love yourself just as much (if not more) as you love your loved ones. But sometimes it can feel difficult to fully love all of ourselves, right? So today I’d like to offer tips on how to love the parts of ourselves that we feel shameful or embarrassed about. 💜  It’s an intentional practice to love all of yourself. And it’s not always easy. The first thing I would offer is to give yourself grace. Acknowledge your feelings without judgment, and know that those emotions are not a reflection of who you are as a whole person.   The next thing I would encourage is to challenge the narrative that you’ve built up around these parts of yourself. Whatever happened that caused you to feel this way, reframe the narrative by viewing how these so-called shameful or embarrassing parts of yourself have contributed to your uniqueness and resilience or even lessons learned!   Here’s an example from my own life… I used to feel incredibly self-conscious about my stomach. I always kept it covered because I felt like it didn’t deserve to be seen. It didn’t look the way an “ideal” stomach should look. 👀 Over the years, I came to challenge the narrative about my stomach.

“I am unique. I’m grateful for every part of myself that makes me unique.”