The Wonderful World of Self Love

Chavah Ranks
Jan 1, 2017
3 min read

Whenever someone asks me what I love about myself I take a second then ask "Well what do mean? Personality, physically... what?" The person usually responds anything. I can confidently answer this question but, before I answer I always skip a few beats mentally reining in my narcissism to give as honest an answer as possible.

Simply put I love me as a whole, flaws and all I didn't just arrive here it took a lot of hardwork.

When asked this question I could be superficial but I feel there's so many things to love about myself before I speak on what you physically see as "me".

Knowing myself I'm typically withdrawn and when someone pops that question on me I low key dread it.

Why do we need to know what I love about myself?
When I get started talking about me there's know stopping this runaway train. "hi, welcome to my blog that I created so that I could talk to you about makeup, me, traveling, me, adventures, confidence, me, life, me etc etc"

Ran off on a tangent twice!

Anywho...

The wonderful world of self love. Loving your self self self self

In addition to sharing randomness and putting myself in unnecessary debt my hope is to help people with these posts.

Help... in a similar manner that the stakeholders in my life and random kind souls have helped to shape the confident being that is me.

I feel like we are taught so many different things as we grow up but self love isn't necessarily always one of them. I was fortunate enough to have "LOVE YOURSELF" drilled into me dat mek no man nah tek me fu fool (jajajajaa)

I know you've heard this before but if YOU don't love yourself no-one else will. Also when you love yourself some people won't respect it remove yourself from those situations and people.

2017 is about to begin and the imaginary clock is resetting. As you commit to a host of things you probably won't do; what you NEED to do is commit to loving yourself more and follow through with it.

Here are a few tips on how to build that self love:

Ignore the scale - it has this weird power over you, you gain a pound instant depression. You lose a pound, fleeting joy. Aim to reduce or increase (whatever you need) but don't be a slave to the scale.
Tell yourself you're pretty - give yourself mad props, it's corny but eventually you'll start to believe your hype.
Fake it till you make it - fake the confidence you think you don't have, eventually it'll come. Power poses work.
Don't make nobody take you for a fool - even if people say negative things reserve within yourself that they're bugging. No one should have power over your mood but you.
Stand in front of your mirror naked every once in a while and point out all your flaws. Then point out all the things you love (I hope the latter out numbers the former) Commit to changing the things you don't like and loving them in the mean time.
Get dressed for no damn reason - playing dress up will make you feel great! Guaranteed or your money back.
Write yourself notes- sticky notes, screenshots, inspirational quotes... whatever floats your boat. Just speak that positivity into your self image.
Glorify all parts of you not just the physical.