In this episode, we're gonna be talking about self-love! What is self-love? Why is self-love so important, and how can it help to attract the relationships we want? I believe that we can completely change our lives for the better, once we learn to accept & appreciate ourselves. And once we cultivate this feeling of love for ourselves, that's when incredible things start to magnetize themselves to us! 

So self-love can be defined in a number of ways and I'm sure it means different things to different people so, in this episode, you're gonna get my take on it. So to me, self-love is when you're in complete acceptance of yourself, and it shows through taking care of your needs and speaking your truth; you notice your inner dialogue, right, your self-talk is mostly positive, you self-empathize more, you forgive yourself for your mistakes, and you become at peace with your past. 

Self-love also shows through loving your body, feeling a sense of respect for it, You start actually wanting to eat better and move around more because you want to take better care of your body, and that becomes more of a priority for you. So no longer will you feel obligated to focus more on your diet & get more exercise, you'll WANT to do these things. And the whole physical aspect of self-love is not a vanity thing. But it's just a new appreciation for yourself and the body that you're experiencing this crazy life in. 

So self-love just feels freaking good, and we get reflections of it in so many amazing ways cause if you embody love, you attract people, things, and experiences that align with it & make you feel more of it.

When I got into learning about the law of attraction, which was my introduction to everything that I talk about on this podcast, I, like many others when they first discover it, found it in a time of struggle. Some people find it as a result of losing a job, some discover it through trying to get over a breakup or get their ex back, or just FIND love, in general. 

For me, these struggles included being financially strapped, I was really struggling in a relationship at the time, and I wasn't happy with where my career was going. I really didn't even have a career...so I felt behind on everything in my life, and I got into patterns of poorly managing money and taking jobs that I only thought I was capable of working but wasn't passionate about. This of course resulted in quick burnout every time, constantly complaining at and about work, dreading that Monday or the following shift, I'm sure a ton of you have been there or ARE there. And as far as my relationship at the time, it was just all over the place. Granted, it was 2020 during the beginning & peak of the pandemic, so a lot of us were picking up on the panic & fear across the globe at that time. But he and I were basically feeding off of each others' wounds & insecurities, and it turns out we both needed to experience that, to learn & heal within ourselves.

So my self-worth was really depleting at that time for a lot of reasons, and my finances reflected how I felt in that relationship. There's actually an energetic connection between love & money that I learned about a couple of years ago, and it makes sense. A lot of what we feel we lack in both the love & money departments is linked to fear...fear that we're not worthy of them, fear of losing these them so we create ways to almost avoid them, fear of having to manage the responsibility of more money and/or a great relationship...fill in the blanks, what are your fears around these things? Could focusing on the lack of them be causing you to struggle with receiving them even more? 

Listen on for more & thank you for being here today! 

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