This episode of the Say Yes to You podcast is ALL about self love and self care, baby! In dictionary terms, self love can be defined as "regard for one's own well-being and happiness." And I completely agree with that! But for me... self love is more-so about how you TAKE regard for your own well-being and happiness. To me... self love is about filling up your cup, and taking care of your own self, before even ATTEMPTING to show up for and take care of other people. Rachel Hollis has a great analogy about this in her book Girl Stop Apologizing. And that is, “Imagine that you are a glass vase and you’re standing up tall, and someone is pouring water into you. That water is everything you could possibly need to survive. So you, as a glass vase, are filled with life and energy and nutrients and love and joy-all the good things. But we women often don’t think about ourselves as much as we worry about everyone else, so we try to lean over. We tip our vases forward and backward and side to side so that the good things we’re receiving will spill out to those around us. We give some to our children, or our coworkers, or our parents, or our friends. We keep tipping ourselves over. We tip it a little bit here, we spill a little bit there, and eventually… the vase falls over and breaks into a thousand pieces. We spend so much effort trying to take care of others that we destroy ourselves in the process. But here’s the incredible thing. If you’re a vase and you just stand up tall and proud on a firm foundation, if you just take in all the things that are being poured into you, what will eventually happen to the water in the vase? It will overflow and spill out to everyone around you." So that's exactly what "self love" means to me. It means loving yourself, and having such a strong regard and such a firm foundation for your own well-being and happiness... that you shamelessly and unapologetically show up for yourself and take such good care of yourself... that you are able to overflow and spill out into everyone around you. I believe self love is all about pouring life, energy, nutrients, love, joy, etc. into other people, after you've already showed up for yourself - instead of tipping your vase forward and backward and side to side until the vase falls over and breaks. Because none of us want to fall over and break into a thousand pieces, right? In today's episode I give you five things that I do to show myself love and to take care of myself, hoping that you will be inspired to take some ACTION when it comes to self love and self care!!
