Putting into practice

The pain in my neck I've had these past few weeks is not just allegorical. I’m also a bit weepy about stuff so today is a perfect day for me to practice loving myself well! Last night I followed a fab activity in my book (hard for you to keep up I know as I’m reading a couple – this is the madly in love with me one).

The activity was reminiscent of the helpful counselling technique of recalling our earliest messages we received, and was about considering what we learned early on about loving ourselves. I’ll summarise it here, but wouldn’t it be great if you read the actual thing and gave it a go yourself!! So I drew quadrants, entitled Media and Society; Friends and peers; parents and relatives; and education and religion, and then wrote down some of the beliefs I absorbed about taking care of myself, saying good things about myself, how romance and relationships with others were rated etc.

Looking at early influences is so helpful I think, as without reflection, I know I can end up enslaved to certain beliefs or feelings, often unconsciously. So it’s great to take the opportunity to notice and examine what I feel and think and then I can choose what to do about them. So this morning I have noticed I’m weepy and need to take good care of myself – and so I shall! Hope you too can love yourself really well today - we each deserve nothing less!