Self - Love is Not A Warm Gushy Feeling ❣️

Self love is not a warm gushy feeling you get in your heart which, once you cultivate it, stays forever.

No.

Self love is not a soft cloud you float through life on once you call it in.

And it's also not to be confused with self-CARE, which is doing nice things for yourself.

☽ Self-love is both an action, and a way of being/perceiving/seeing yourself in the world.

☽ Self-love is feeling downright shitty and saying "I can accept myself in this feeling".

☽ It's being angry, frustrated, selfish, stingy, and still saying "I love myself here. I know there's a deeper reason why I feel these things, and I honor that".

☽ It's being willing to dig down into the shadow, the darkness, and sit in the discomfort long enough to understand it, come to terms with it, and find love for it.

☽ It's showing yourself compassion when you feel guilty or shameful.

☽ It's letting yourself feel whatever you're feeling, and not trying to numb it, push it down or change it.

☽ It's telling yourself how worthy you are, how enough you are, and how loved you are, exactly as you are.

☽ It's acknowledging that you are human, and saying "I accept myself here."

But you see, it's rather challenging to do this on your own. Without the mirror of another. And this is why we need community. This is why we need like-minded soul sisters and soul brothers.

When we share our vulnerabilities in an authentic way, and those around us reflect that THEY too experience these things, we realise we're not so "different" than everyone else. We're not so strange. We're not so crazy.

And it helps us accept ourselves more.

When we gather in community and process what's there, together, we heal not only ourselves, but aspects of the collective which effect us all.

When we do the work together we heal on an even deeper level, for ourselves and the generations to come.

Find your community, and grow.

We invite you to join ours: Soul Sisterhood Collective or join our Facebook group: Sisters Rising in Love