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Self-Love 365

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Self-Love 365 is a daily podcast, featuring weekly themes & daily insight on the concept and practice of Self-Love. Hosted by Lee Lee McKnight, founder of The Perpetual You magazine and Head Dreamer at Ladymade.

Our cover art was created by Jessie Leiber from Little Legends Design Studio & our original music was contributed by digital musician Henri Lew.

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SL 365 | Day 48 | "If you love reading it, it's about Self-Love"

September 04, 2021 12:59 - 15 minutes - 14.8 MB

Today's FUN way of infusing self-love into our daily lives is through what we choose to read. Reading for self-love can be either: Reading something you love to read (notice + name it as part of your self-love practice) or reading something you consider to be about self-love. In this episode, Lee Lee shares 3 of her favorite self-love books, Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion by Marianne Ingheim; Hunger by Roxanne Gay; and House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. If you'r...

SL 365 | Day 47 | "Do you need a Self-Love Staycation?"

September 03, 2021 11:31 - 14 minutes - 13 MB

Every now and then, life gets hectic and we plan a vacation. Or maybe we plan one in advance because we know life's going to be hectic for a while and we'll need a break afterward. A vacation acts as a regeneration of the relationship with whatever it is we're focusing on for that time period, whether family, our spirit of adventure, or our need for downtime. Good news: we can follow the same process when we need to reconnect with ourselves. We can research, plan, and anticipate a Self-Love ...

SL 365 | Day 46 | "Hand me that Self-Love over there, would ya?"

September 02, 2021 12:27 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB

There's nothing more important in a healthy self-love practice than regular intimacy with ourselves. Just as you would establish and foster a time & place for intimacy in a loving relationship with another person, you can also foster intimacy with yourself. This is both a physical act (acquiring tools and storing them lovingly) and a mindset shift; namely, replacing shame & secrecy around self-touch with specialness, joy, and curiosity. Do a bedside table (or drawer/shelf) makeover... What d...

SL 365 | Day 45 | "Home is Where the Self-Love Is"

September 01, 2021 14:16 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MB

Today's way of infusing self-love into our lives is by infusing self-love into our homes. Use a critical lens to search around your home and find things you DON'T love (or don't love to use) and... Get Rid of Them!! You can choose to hire a professional and go through KonMari or some other organizing strategy with moral support, but you don't have to. You can also just investigate your home on your own. The criteria for keeping things is that you love looking at it, it makes you feel loving,...

SL 365 | Day 44 | Self-Love, without the Side of Guilt

August 31, 2021 12:19 - 9 minutes - 9.16 MB

You know what's fun? Eating what you love. Importantly, if we are practicing self-love--yes, even in our eating habits--then we don't just get to eat what we love; we get to eat what we love and NOT feel guilty about it. Yes, please! The practice of giving yourself a "self-love feast" at every meal begins, like many other areas we've talked about, with noticing. What do you feel like eating? What sounds good in the moment? What is available and/or easy to prepare? Listen to your body and giv...

SL 365 | Day 43 | "I Only Wear What I Love"

August 30, 2021 12:44 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MB

This week is all about the F-U-N of being in love with yourself. We start off with our wardrobe. A healthy self-love practice means we only wear what we love to wear. Style trends be damned. Love wearing stripes? Wear them! A fan of polka-dots? Buy clothes with polka-dots! The rules are simple: if you love wearing it & if you love the way wearing it makes you feel, it stays. And if you don't, let it go. Pass it along to someone else who will love wearing it. Once you've pared down your wardr...

SL 365 | Day 42 | "Is this Self-Love that I'm Feeling?"

August 29, 2021 13:01 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MB

The final day of our Self-Love Reset! In this episode, I tell you about my 3-question "test" that I can hold any action up against to determine if it's Self-Love or not. This tool can be used throughout your Self-Love practice, whether as an official part of a reset (like we're doing here) or any time you're feeling unsure. The three questions are: Is it true? Is it loving? Is it me? In other words, for an action to be part of your Self-Love practice, it must be honest, loving, and authentic...

SL 365 | Day 40 | "I Like the Way I Love Myself"

August 28, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

Day 6 of our Self-Love Reset is all about assessing our current self-care practices. (Remember: Self-Care is the acting out of our desire for & feelings of Self-Love.) Take a look at your current schedule and how busy or free you are, and then compare that to your current self-care habits. Do they balance out? Do they mesh well together? Do you need or have time for more self-care, or do you need to shift some of your practices into different iterations. If you're feeling short on hours & ti...

SL 365 | Day 41 | "I Like the Way I Love Myself"

August 28, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

Day 6 of our Self-Love Reset is all about assessing our current self-care practices. (Remember: Self-Care is the acting out of our desire for & feelings of Self-Love.) Take a look at your current schedule and how busy or free you are, and then compare that to your current self-care habits. Do they balance out? Do they mesh well together? Do you need or have time for more self-care, or do you need to shift some of your practices into different iterations. If you're feeling short on hours & ti...

SL 365 | Day 40 | "Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Self-Love"

August 27, 2021 12:59 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB

Sometimes, we get stuck in our hopes & dreams for a beautiful, inspiration, compassion Self-Love practice and we forget that love is actually all around us. We don't have to make it "hard" because we've built a life that consists of myriad outlets that provide us with love. When we feel depleted, overwhelmed, are anxious about something in particular--or we just don't feel that great--that's the time to stop planning, dreaming, and doing, and just start noticing where love already exists. Pe...

SL 365 | Day 39 | "Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Self-Love"

August 27, 2021 12:59 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB

Sometimes, we get stuck in our hopes & dreams for a beautiful, inspiration, compassion Self-Love practice and we forget that love is actually all around us. We don't have to make it "hard" because we've built a life that consists of myriad outlets that provide us with love. When we feel depleted, overwhelmed, are anxious about something in particular--or we just don't feel that great--that's the time to stop planning, dreaming, and doing, and just start noticing where love already exists. Pe...

SL 365 | Day 38 | "Is there a downside to Self-Love?"

August 26, 2021 14:46 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB

We move forward in our "Self-Love Reset" to, in a way, a second-guessing of our own preconceived notions about self-love and its healthy habits. Yesterday, we wrote a definition of Self-Love and today we're deconstructing that definition. Importantly, deconstruction is not about tearing something down--about Destructing it--but about investigation. Approach the task of deconstruction with a willingness to think differently about the topic, and a willingness to look at all sides of an issue. ...

SL 365 | Day 39 | "Is there a downside to Self-Love?"

August 26, 2021 14:46 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB

We move forward in our "Self-Love Reset" to, in a way, a second-guessing of our own preconceived notions about self-love and its healthy habits. Yesterday, we wrote a definition of Self-Love and today we're deconstructing that definition. Importantly, deconstruction is not about tearing something down--about Destructing it--but about investigation. Approach the task of deconstruction with a willingness to think differently about the topic, and a willingness to look at all sides of an issue. ...

SL 365 | Day 38 | "My Self-Love is different from Your Self-Love"

August 25, 2021 12:25 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MB

We're on Day 3 of our Self-Love Reset process, and it's time to bring it to the present. How are you feeling about Self-Love--and your practice of it--right now? If you had to define Self-Love--in your own way--what would you say? It's very helpful, actually, to have a working definition of Self-Love, not just for the reset process, but also so that you have it to weight your own feelings and behaviors against during times of stress, transition, or just when you're feeling like checking in. ...

SL 365 | Day 37 | "My, my. Look how our Self-Love has Grown."

August 24, 2021 13:28 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MB

During a Self-Love Reset (like the one we're doing this week!), it's important to take stock of how far we've come. Give yourself credit, as the authoress Alison Rachel says. Because we're so intent on building a healthy Self-Love practice, sometimes we can get too mired in the "process" of it all. Am I doing this right? What can I do better/more/intentionally/differently? That dedication will only be elevated by reminding ourselves of the hard work we've done, of the progress we've made, an...

SL 365 | Day 36 | "Self-Love Reset"

August 23, 2021 12:41 - 15 minutes - 14 MB

Getting overwhelmed? Stressed in your daily or work life? Feeling anxious about the state of the world? The last thing in the world you should do is to take a Self-Love BREAK. Instead, give yourself a Self-Love Breather and work through the feelings. In fact, if you feel you need a break from Self-Love, then it's likely you need to give yourself time off from all the other things in your life that are making you feel stressed, overwhelmed, tired, and anxious. Self-Love is the cure for those ...

SL 365 | Day 35 | "Self-Love doesn't Stop"

August 22, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MB

If you have ever been at a point in your life when you were running the other direction from love, that's a challenge to consider when building a healthy self-love practice. If we weren't brought up to seek out loving relationships, then we may still be enacting this pattern unconsciously. Be very intentional about who you surround yourself with. Take a look at your relationships: are they loving? do they support your own self-love relationship? If not, evaluate what to do so that you can pr...

SL 365 | Day 34 | "Self-Love doesn't Spiral"

August 21, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MB

Today's challenge is the Very Big Topic of Addiction + Abuse, or bad habits that border on becoming addiction or abuse. Like many of our other challenges this week, addiction, abuse, and even bad habits, can mask other feelings, make us act out of character, cause us to prioritize wants over needs, and just leave us out of balance in general. This leads to a spiral downward that is very tough to get out of, and very had to "love" yourself out of. For that reason, this challenge is vitally im...

SL 365 | Day 33 | "Self-Love doesn't Seclude"

August 20, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB

Today's challenge is depression--either situational or a general feeling of sadness--and isolation, which typically results from overwhelming feelings of sadness. Depression gets in the way of our self-love practice because, while feeling depressed, we tend to focus on only that one feeling. All other feelings get shoved aside, including hope and happiness--two very important feelings that engender authentic loving acts. To put it another way, rather than focusing on our need for self-love, ...

SL 365 | Day 32 | "Self-Love doesn't Swagger"

August 19, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB

Overconfident/hubris - strategy is authenticity & growth

SL 365 | Day 31 | "Self-Love doesn't Sprint"

August 18, 2021 10:00 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MB

Self-Love is not a spring; it's a marathon! We practice healthy self-love in order to build up lifelong habits and a perpetual mindset of showing love towards ourselves. If you're paying particular attention to your self-love practice, you may want to add it to your "to-do" list as an intention or goal--or you may want to add daily tasks of self-love in order to build the habit--but self-love isn't negotiable based on mood or other tasks that need to get done.  It can't be carried over from ...

SL 365 | Day 30 | "Self-Love doesn't Swindle"

August 17, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB

Do you have anxiety, or are you often worried? Are you often uncertain, which leads to anxiety and/or worry? While this is totally normal given the unprecedented times we live in, being anxious, worried, and uncertain don't lead to a healthy self-love practice. When we're in these states of mind, we are expending all our mental energy on THEM...not on loving ourselves. The strategy for this challenge is to ground ourselves in reality, to remind ourselves of what is true. One way you can do t...

SL 365 | Day 29 | "Self-Love doesn't Stress"

August 16, 2021 10:00 - 10 minutes - 9.91 MB

We live in a world that expects us to go-go-go, and do more-more-more. In reality, though, there are only so many hours in the day--and some are needed for downtime. If we start to feel pressed for time, we start to feel stressed. Then, we start rushing. But rushing or working harder/faster doesn't bring more hours to our day. In fact, it makes time pass by more quickly! And we certainly don't enjoy those hours. If you start feeling stressed and overworked in your daily life, then it's going...

SL 365 | Day 28 | "Self-Love isn't Selfish"

August 15, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.8 MB

Just when we think we've addressed all the cultural barriers to a healthy self-love practice, someone accuses us of being "selfish" when we prioritize our own needs. Say no to an expectation you didn't agree to in the first place? You're seen as selfish. Stay home instead of attending an event that you don't have time or energy for? You're seen as selfish. Choose loving yourself over any other activity? You're seen as selfish. This type of this-or-that thinking is typical of a society in whi...

SL 365 | Day 27 | "Self-Love is a WIN for Everybody"

August 14, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MB

In typical fashion of popular culture, we're receiving two very different messages on a frequent basis. One message says that we should be totally independent and do everything ourselves; the other message says that we don't know what we're talking about, we're not the expert, and we need to look to others to tell us what to do--or even to do it for us! Wow--confusing, huh? The truth is that we don't need to be totally independent, nor totally dependent. Our species works best when we're INT...

SL 365 | Day 26 | "We don't need another Self-Love Hero"

August 13, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB

The fifth type of culture that acts as a barrier to a healthy self-love practice is "Superhero/Shero" culture. When we glorify only strength, ability, endurance, and masculinity, we're neglecting the range of emotions and states of beings a human naturally exists within. Things traditionally seen as weak--like being vulnerable, delicate, or mistaken--are actually completely normal. If we ignore those parts of our selves, or worse--if we disparage those parts of our selves--then how can we lo...

SL 365 | Day 25 | "There's No Model for Healthy Self-Love"

August 12, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

We live in a world dominated by the self-help industry, which is a machine that preys on the doubt of its audience. As an antidote, we can keep our thoughts based in REALITY. Doubt does not come from love, and doubt does not equal reality. Reality is trusting your intuition; knowing what's good for you in that moment; relying on the abilities and knowledge you do have to help you made decisions; and being willing to learn by doing something (aka, not needing to know everything before you beg...

SL 365 | Day 24 | "It's No Secret that I Love Myself"

August 11, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.7 MB

In "secret" culture, a hierarchy is set up in which some people know and are allowed to dispense knowledge, and others are there only to learn, listen, and receive. This creates an unsustainable and unhealthy power dynamic, regardless of the situation. Many of us, however, grew up in this type of culture and are so accustomed to it we don't even notice it, nor the damage it does to our relationships, group dynamics, and our capacity for honesty. Fortunately, we are living in a time when trut...

SL 365 | Day 23 | "There's no shame in my Self-Love game!"

August 10, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MB

Shame is the opposite of LOVE. In a culture that promotes shame in regards to anyone who is embodied (especially children!), it's very difficult to feel okay with loving yourself. Self-love, like any loving relationship, involves the body. It involves touch and physical love. If we're disconnected from our body and even from the idea of showing physical love, then we will be disconnected from our ability to love ourselves. One antidote to shame is witnessing embodiment, which can be a powerf...

SL 365 | Day 22 | "Self-Love is not good for Marketing Campaigns"

August 09, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MB

Living in a shallow culture is a major barrier to a healthy Self-Love practice. When we're being influenced by others--whether through advertising, popular TV, social media, or the opinions of friends & family--we're no longer being intentional about our decisions. If we're not being intentional, then we can't know whether our self-love practice is working in our favor. So the antidote to Shallow Culture is really Intentional Living/Loving. A quick way to bring yourself back down to reality,...

SL 365 | Day 21 | "You're in Charge of Your Own Self-Love"

August 08, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MB

Here's a secret: if you're not the person with the final say over your life, your body, your future, your health & wellbeing...then, you're not the person with the final say over whether you love yourself or not. Autonomy is a non-negotiable in the practice of self-love. If you're looking to someone else to make decisions or to tell you what to do, then you're going to be asking them whether or not it's appropriate for you to love yourself. And guess what? They're going to answer, "Sure, rig...

SL 365 | Day 20 | "A Self-Love Practice You Don't Need to Take a Day Off From"

August 07, 2021 12:45 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB

We've been raised in a culture that teaches us--whether for good or bad--that we "work" 5 days and we take the other 2 days off. Repeat, repeat, repeat. While having a dedicated work ethic will benefit us while focusing on our self-love practice & habits, we do NOT get to take days off. We're loving ourselves 24/7! Not that we're "practicing" habits, rituals, and routines of self-love 24 hours a day, but we are loving ourselves all day, every day. A self-love ethic, then, adopts a 7-day mind...

SL 365 | Day 19 | "Make Room for Self-Love"

August 06, 2021 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MB

The fifth basic of a healthy self-love practice is space, which encompasses both a physical space where we can be alone to focus on (and figure out how to meet) our needs AND the emotional boundaries we create, communicate, and enforce. In my own life, I find claiming a physical space to be something I'm very adept at, and, once claimed, I hang on to these spaces quite well also! However, setting emotional boundaries is much more difficult for me, especially when it comes to communicating th...

SL 365 | Day 18 | "A Healthy Dose of Self-Love"

August 05, 2021 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB

The fourth basic of Self-Love is energy--as in having some! All too often, when our energy is low, our self-love practice wanes. Even though self-love is a restorative practice, we haven't received the message to prioritize our needs; thus, self-love & self-care are often the first things to suffer when we're feeling low on energy. Ironically, when our energy is low, we need self-love even more! Start to notice and name the times when your energy lags, and the behaviors or external factors t...

SL 365 | Day 17 | "Is It Self-Love Time Yet?"

August 04, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB

Wouldn't it be great if we looked forward to "self-love time" just as much as we did to dinnertime? or to date night? or to the time when the kids are safely on the bus and off to school / out of our hands? Good news! We can look forward to this time, if we manage our time in such a way that self-love IS important and valued and prioritized and comforting and fun. On the other hand, if we're always feeling in a rush and pressed for time, it will be a challenge to set aside the time we need t...

SL 365 | Day 16 | "Self-Love is not an Island"

August 03, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB

Alongside cultivating a life with stability, safety, and security, we can cultivate a support system to turn to when challenges (or chaos!) arise. Do you have a select group of people you can turn to when you need help? Are you even able to ask for help when you need it? Asking for help is not a weakness! Still, for many of us, we've been conditioned or molded into "independent" thinkers who see asking for support as being weak. Needing support is normal + human, though it does require vulne...

SL 365 | Day 15 | "The Three S's of Self-Love"

August 02, 2021 12:31 - 15 minutes - 14 MB

For our self-love practices to thrive, there are certain non-negotiables we need to put in place--the "fundamentals" or basics of self-love. For me, these begin with safety, security, and stability. When I am living in an environment that is safe, secure, and stable--both physically & emotionally--than I am better able to love myself, which means I am better able to pass along that love to those who cannot access the fundamentals at this time. What are your non-negotiables for living your id...

SL 365 | Day 14 | "Self-Love is the Love You've Been Looking For"

August 01, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB

What would be different about your life if you loved yourself unconditionally? If your self-love was the purest, richest, most rewarding love in your life? Can you picture it?  Paint it? Dream it in to being? Dreaming about the "perfect" self-love relationship is just like all the dreaming about "falling in love" that we did when we were kids or teens (or now!). Dreaming is manifesting the goal into being. It's an authentic and necessary part of the realization process. The good news is we a...

SL 365 | Day 13 | "Love the Self You've Become"

July 31, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MB

Alongside adopting habits of Self-Love, we must also reconcile with and reckon with our past experiences--our "story." If we don't accept all that we've become and all that we've experienced then we can't truly love our present selves. One challenge is accepting even the pieces of our story that we didn't engineer--those parts of us or experiences we've had in which we didn't choose for it to be that way. In these cases, we don't have to LOVE the incident or the aspect of our personality/bod...

SL 365 | Day 12 | "A Self-Love Detour down Beauty Lane"

July 30, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB

The next Self-Love habit we're going to cultivate is recognizing our own beauty. Now, unless you have been born with "traditional" beauty features, this will necessarily involve re-defining what is and isn't beautiful. If you buy into patriarchy's definitions of beauty, and you don't fit into those parameters, then it's pretty hard to call yourself beautiful and believe it. So, this habit also involves challenging traditional beauty norms and finding the beauty in your "flaws" or "scars," or...

SL 365 | Day 11 | "Hey! Pay attention to me!!"

July 29, 2021 11:00 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

In addition to talking to ourselves, another important habit to cultivate in our self-love practice is paying attention to ourselves! We're both the child in need of attention, and the parent willing to give it. What's nice about this is that we can meet our own need, which is often both a present longing & a deep-seated desire to be noticed. No more looking outside of ourselves to be noticed! We can be our own observers. We can give ourselves the attention we need and deserve. Spending time...

SL 365 | Day 10 | "Let's Talk about Self-Talk"

July 28, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MB

What relationship have you enjoyed without talking to the other person? I mean, we even talk to our animals--and they don't even know what we're saying half the time! It's only normal + natural (and necessary) that we talk to ourselves, if we want to be in a loving self-relationship. Try narrating an action you're doing, or having a dialogue with yourself about a particular decision you're making. Do it in the moment, and keep it neutral. Right now, as we practice the habit of self-talk, we ...

SL 365 | Day 9 | "Patience Over Perfection"

July 27, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB

Self-Love is a practice, and practices require patience. If you set perfection as a goal, you'll become frustrated more often than not. Instead, show yourself compassion and kindness, which are both integral aspects of a loving relationship. No one is perfect. No relationship is perfect. So, let's not expect perfection in our self-love either. Aim low, and show up. You'll surprise yourself! Music contributed by Henri Lew Custom graphics by Little Legends Design Studio

SL 365 | Day 8 | "Schedule your Self-Love"

July 26, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB

For most of us, loving ourselves is going to be a new practice we're adding in to our already full lives (and already full brains!). It's important, then, to choose self-love habits that are actions we both desire to have as part of our lives and that we enjoy doing. Even so, new habits are often challenging--simply because they're new. The easiest way to set ourselves up for success is to schedule our self-love habits. Grab your calendar, or set a reminder in your phone, and schedule your s...

SL 365 | Day 7 | "Self-Love Starts Today"

July 25, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB

We made it! The week of "Self-Love 101" has reached its conclusion. In this episode, I share more of my personal self-love journey. I hope it inspires you to choose self-love, now and for always. Custom graphics by Jessie Leiber of Little Legends Design Custom music by Henri Lew

SL 365 | Day 6 | "My Self-Love is like an Ocean"

July 24, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13 MB

The ripple effects of a self-loving relationship are large & long-lasting. When your self-love practice is healthy, every interaction becomes a loving "ripple." And just like the ocean, self-love ripples come back to you just as strong. By loving yourself, you're helping to heal the world!  Custom graphics by Jessie Leiber of Little Legends Design Custom music by Henri Lew

SL 365 | Day 5 | "Keep Self-Love Simple"

July 23, 2021 10:00 - 9 minutes - 9.13 MB

We're spending 365 days of building a practice of self-love to investigate what it IS and what it ISN'T...but Self-Love in and of itself is not, in theory, complicated. It boils down to: "I love myself." Taking care of basic needs and figuring out exactly what we can't live without in any given day counts as self-love! Custom graphics by Jessie Leiber of Little Legends Design Custom music by Henri Lew

SL 365 | Day 4 | "Self-Love includes the word S-E-L-F."

July 22, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13 MB

Who do you love that you don't even know? I bet that answer is nobody! In order to love someone, you get to know them. And in order to love yourself, you get to know your SELF. Who are you? What do you like? What do you hate? What are you apathetic about? What's your favorite ice cream? What do you do first thing in the morning because it just feels right? Are you even a morning person? There's so, so much to get to know! Why not get started today?! Custom graphics by Jessie Leiber of Littl...

SL365 | Day 3 | "Self-Love requires Nourishment"

July 21, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MB

Self-Love can (and should) be nourished - every single day. We must tend to our self-love relationship just as we would any other, with compassion and patience and a sense of responsibility. We must give ourselves space when needed. We must show up for ourselves when needed. Just like any other loving relationship, self-love cannot exist on its own. It takes tending to! Original Music recorded by Henri Lew. Original Graphics designed by Jessie Leiber of Little Legends Design Studio.

SL365 | Day 2 | "Self-Love begets Self-Care"

July 20, 2021 10:00 - 11 minutes - 11 MB

Self-Love is the feeling; Self-Care is the expression. They're different but intertwined. If we know that self-care is an expression of self-love then we know there's No Negotiating on Self-Care!! And we know that there's no shame allowed when we're giving ourselves care. So go ahead and take that long lunch!!!  Our music is created and produced by Henri Lew. Follow us on Twitter (!!) @365_self, and get our weekly digest on Medium at 365daysofselflove.com.