There’s something about the social messaging about loving ourselves that can feel fake or ingenuine to me.
Like it’s this big thing that we’re supposed to understand and practice until the doll-like smile on our faces never come off.
And it feels like one more standard that we are expected to reach.
What if you think you don’t love yourself? What if you’ve done some shit in your past that haunts you to this day and leaves you full of even a little doubt about you loveability? How do you measure up then?
Favour?
Lets stop measuring and thinking about loving ourselves based our external circumstances or the opinions of others.
Lets start looking inside and identifying our worth from who we really are.
Behaviour doesn’t determine worth.
Money doesn’t determine worth.
Status doesn’t determine worth.
Accomplishment doesn’t determine worth.
Looks or weight don’t determine worth.
YOU determine your worth.
And you do that by having the awareness of what you’re made of.
Ask yourself “Who is ……., and what does she stand for? What’s important to her? Where does she feel like she is at home with her heart?
Loving yourself is the art of accepting who you are right now, releasing anything that holds your thoughts or feelings hostage, and giving yourself the self nourishment that feeds that heart of yours, plus your body, your soul and your spirit.
Start there, end there.
Because we’re not on this earth to be driven by the measuring stick from outside of us. We’re here to understand ourselves well enough to be true to ourselves.
And in a loving world, there is no room for anything else.
Dianna xo
