FeelingGoodWithSofy

Hey everyone! 😊

It’s time for a new self-love article! 🙂❤️

Trigger warning: this article discusses challenging mental-health topics. If you are currently going through a difficult time with your mental-health, this blog post might be difficult for you to read. However, this self-love article includes also motivational, inspiring insights. The decision to keep on reading is entirely yours❤️

I have currently written two articles about self-love, here are the links!

• https://www.indiansavage.com/self-love-a-very-important-journey/
• https://feelinggoodwithsofy.wordpress.com/2024/08/22/self-love-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f/

Self-love is truly an important part of your life. If you do not love yourself first, it will be much harder to embrace yourself and genuinely be happy for others.

The meaning of self-love❤️

Self-love means truly valuing your own being.You build it by taking steps that foster your physical, emotional, and spiritual growth. It means consistently prioritizing your own happiness and well-being, attending to your needs, and ensuring you don’t neglect yourself for the sake of others. It’s not about vanity or selfishness, self-love serves as the essential foundation for building self-confidence, self-esteem, and ultimately, a happy life.

Here is a look of what self-love truly means:

• Self-acceptance: it’s about embracing yourself, flaws and all, and understanding your inherent worth.
• Self-compassion: the practice of giving yourself the very same kindness and comprehension you would naturally provide to a good friend.
• Setting healthy boundaries: it involves creating clear limits with people to keep your emotional, and physical health safe.
• Self-care: an act of self-kindness, that consists in taking care of your mental and physical health.
• Forgiveness: another very important part about self-love is forgiveness. It’s about letting go of past errors and freeing yourself from the burder of self-criticism.
• Gratitude: it’s finding appreciation for the blessings you possess, both internally and externally.
• Mindfulness: it means observing your thoughts and feelings without judgement, simply noticing them as they are.

Think of self-love as an ongoing adventure of understanding and bettering yourself❤️ 🙂

Like many of you, I’m also on my journey of Self-love❤️

I’ve been very hard and strict on myself since a young age, and it only worsened with time. Battling depression and anxiety, things didn’t improve when I went to school and even afterwards.

I struggled at school, feeling different from everyone else. Many, including some teachers and professors, would point out my shyness and my silence in the classroom. Academically, I also had a hard time. For instance, I was so slow during tests, which frustrated me immensely and led me to feel inadequate and uneasy.

Even after finishing school, I battled with my own insecurities…

After finishing modeling with agencies, I went into a serious depression and I started to belittle myself a lot. I didn’t love myself at all, I would sabotage myself both physically and emotionally and I felt as if I was not worthy to love myself and to be loved by others.

On a healing journey…❤️

Like I said before, self-love is an ongoing process. Sometimes I get angry towards myself, other times I get to be kinder towards myself. With the help of professionals and loved ones, I am constantly learning to accept where I am right now, accept my nature, my imperfections. I am a work in progress 🙂

Healthy tips along the way…❤️

• If you are reading this article and also struggling with self-love, I warmly advise you to talk to a professional therapist. Moreover, challenges with self-love are closely linked to broader mental-health struggles.

• I am a lover of mindfulness and that is for good reasons! Mindfulness teaches you acceptance, to be exactly where you are right now and do the best about it. For me, mindfulness has been a very good start to a self-love journey.❤️

• Creating small routines and sticking to them has been another game changer for me 🙂 Self-care plays a very important role in my self-love journey. When I am not feeling good emotionally, I tend to neglect my personal hygiene like skincare, but that is the trick. Once I take care of myself by for example washing my face or my hair, I also feel better emotionally :)❤️❤️

No matter where you are in life, know that you are worthy of loving yourself deeply, even if it takes time and effort, you always have the opportunity to press reset and start over!❤️

Much Love and Light✨❤️

Sofia Lena😊

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