If you're anything like me, you're on journey, a journey towards true love. Unconditional, head over heels, screaming from the rooftops, CRAZY LOVE ... do you know what I mean?
For me, this true love journey is all about SELF-LOVE. I'm falling more and more in love with myself every damn day and I could not be happier about it.
Self-love has been a struggle for me my ENTIRE LIFE. I've overcome some major adversity and I am so proud of myself for that but I can definitely still berate myself with negative self-talk, and never feeling good enough has kept me in a very unhealthy place, striving for 'perfection'. I've always been ready to torture my body, mind and soul. Yuck! Whether it be with the hottest 'diet', over-exercising, reading self-help books until I feel completely useless, judging my spiritual relationship with the God of my understanding, or comparing myself to others. It's all an exhausting nightmare.
If what I really want most in my life is to be authentically in love with myself then it's simple: I need to start loving ALL of me. That means I don't only deserve love SOMETIMES, I deserve love ALL of the time. I don't ONLY deserve love when I drink green juice, run and practice yoga. I deserve love when I sit on the couch and watch back to back episodes of Dexter, while eating chips. I don't ONLY deserve love when I've sat in meditation for an hour, journaled and connected to the God of my understanding, I deserve love when I wake up in weird mood and don't feel like doing ANY of those things. I deserve love all of the time and so do you.
The trick to this loving yourself all the time thing, I think, is to stop making ourselves wrong. Get rid of those rules in your head. There isn't a set list of things to do in order to be happy. Happiness is unconditional acceptance of all that we are, of the good and the bad, the fear, the uncertainty, the coping mechanisms, etc... ACCEPT and LOVE EVERYTHING about yourself and you will be happy because you'll never be beating yourself up about something that you've deemed "wrong".
Embrace your humanness. Embrace your imperfection and just be. Listen to your heart, talk to your heart, talk to your body and do what you're guided to do. Trust that it will ALWAYS be the right thing for you, at that time. Whether it makes you feel amazing or teaches you a lesson, it will always be right.
It's been my experience thus far that when I tell myself I am allowed to eat or do whatever I want, making nothing "wrong", I choose the food and activities that are in alignment with my highest self. It's really magical and so, so simple.
Here's to unconditional love and acceptance :)
Love, Kylie
xoxoxo
