Self-Love

⚠️Trigger Warning⚠️

Social media is not a real place.

Social media is a drug, an addiction.

So… if social media is your drug of choice, it’s time to shut it down.

Step back.

Take a break.

The Carlee Russell story is weighing heavily on my mind and heart right now because I am seriously concerned about a society that uses social media as a tool to measure its value and worth.

People are so desperate to be seen, heard, liked, validated, and relevant... it's exhausting.

With so many of us trying to heal trauma by perpetuating stress cycles through social media, we are collectively left disconnected and dysregulated.

Disconnected from ourselves and, as a result, each other.

And that is not OK.

Self-love and nervous system regulation does not start on a platform....it comes from within.

Self-Love is an appreciation of all that you are. All the snorts and giggles, and every dip and curve that makes you you.

Self-Love supports our physical, psychological, and spiritual growth.

Self-Love supports our well-being and happiness.

Self-Love happens when we allow the parts of ourselves that we judge and fear the most to show up and be seen.

Self-Love is dynamic.

So be kind to yourself.

And when doubt creeps in, love yourself a little bit more.

Because…

“Self-Love is seeing fully, with tenderness and compassion, the part of ourselves that we have learned to believe is most unworthy of being seen, unlovable, or flawed.

It is accepting, touching, feeling, tending to, singing to, and gazing completely at the place that others have turned their eyes away from.

It is wanting what has been unwanted within us.

It is holding our underbelly, or whatever that place is that we’ve experienced “no one loves this.”

It is holding and loving that part of ourselves. “ ~Octavia F. Raheem

Love yourself. You are worthy.