Igniting Your Self LOVE
If I were to tell you that the KEY to living the life you want is to LOVE and accept all that you are (light and dark), would you agree or disagree?
Unfor tunately, I would say most people want to agree but internally disagree. This is By Jenna Pilot because other than self LOVE being a sexy term, it is not something that comes naturally to us. Many people view self LOVE as narcissistic, egotistical and/or selfish. On the opposite spectrum many people believe that to love yourself you have to have perfect everything.
I don't know about YOU but this societal norm has never worked for me. In my dance with life, I struggled with perfectionism, people pleasing, constantly feeling like I was not enough and very low esteem. I was an overachiever always trying to “prove” my purpose and wor th. I had no concept of what self LOVE was and how it dramatically changes your life. Instead I went through life, like I believe a lot of us do, looking OUTSIDE myself for LOVE instead of inside. I definitely learnt the hard way, dancing back and forth, from self loathing to self destruction.
NOT ACCURATE!!!
I am literally chuckling as I write this, I cant believe some of the decisions I made thinking they would be my ticket to self LOVE when it actually just pushed me way past self loathing and despair.
We are surrounded by social norms that we let define who we are, how we live and what we want. None of these norms focus on LOVing you first, it usually (especially for women) is to serve and please others, to fit in with the norm, that norm being more self loathing then self love.
As an Empowerment and Self LOVE coach, I have worked with women who are stuck in self loathing and shame. Each queen that I have empowered starts at the place of either thinking self love is selfish or thinking that they could never reach the point of loving themselves. As a result I am
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I g n i t i n g Yo u r S e l f L o v e
