Speaking Love
I speak love to you....
By remembering. Your upcoming presentation, your stressful medical appointment, that big conversation you had to have, how you take your coffee.
By truly listening. Putting my phone away, looking you in the eyes and listening with no purpose other than to hear you, to make you feel heard.
By writing it in a card. If we are friends, there is no doubt that you have received a card or written note from me.
By taking note of your favourite treats and making sure they make their way onto my table when you come by.
By showing up. Helping you move, donating to that charity thing you're doing, coming to a workout class that you don't want to go to alone.
These are the ways I try to give love to my people. This is what it looks like to give this same kind of love to myself:
By remembering. Remember the things you've already learned about yourself, the things you need to feel good, the lessons your body has stored.
By truly listening. Put your phone away. Sit in silence. Listen to your breath. What is your body telling you? What does your intuition need to share?
By writing it in a card. Write love letters to yourself. To your Inner Child, to you right now, to a future version of yourself.
By taking note of your favourite treats. Give yourself permission to experience pleasure without guilt. You deserve to gift yourself, to delight yourself.
By showing up. Show up intentionally in your self-care by keeping promises to yourself, by listening to your intuition, by noticing your breath, by getting into nature.
I encourage you to write out all the ways you speak love into your relationships and then re-write what it would look like to speak this same love to yourself.