Well…ain’t that the truth.
I was thrilled to recently come across an incredibly inspiring movement called ‘Madly In Love With Me’ by Christine Arylo. Madly In Love With Me is a movement encouraging women to nurture and develop their own self love. Loving one’s self – really LOVING one’s self – is often something that women are not really willing to explore due to it being seen as something that is selfish or conceited. What a great (and rather damaging) myth that is to any woman’s true sense of self and freedom. I can only imagine it has perpetuated from women seeing themselves as nurturers, givers and carers of other people and on the path of doing this – forgetting to love and care for themselves. I just love that Madly In Love With Me is turning this completely around to help women understand that unless you nurture, care, and yes, LOVE, truly love yourself, you can never expect to reach your full destiny.
As anyone who is a regular reader of Beautiful You will know I believe that every woman is unqiue, inspiring and beautiful. This uniqueness, beauty and inspiration is found in something much deeper than what can be seen and really is about someone’s heart and soul. That, to me, is what real beauty is about and real beauty such as exists in you and me, deserves to and must be loved.
The Madly In Love With Me movement is encouraging all women to declare their own version of self love and here is mine.
Self Love to me is -
- Permitting myself to shine and never hiding my talents and abilities away
- Honouring my individual beauty and self by never comparing myself to others
- Believing in the power of my womanhood and ability to do anything I want to do
- Being compassionate towards myself especially at times when I know I need it most
- Communicating in a way that is authentic and from my heart
- Prioritising my health
- Knowing I need only the approval of myself and not that of others
The Madly In Love With Me Movement is encouraging all women to write their own self love manifesto as I have done here. Maybe you could put it up on your blog or facebook page, or simply write it in your journal or diary. Think of it as a wonderful thing for you to do for YOU.
As a little extra incentive, you could win some great prizes by posting your self love declaration on Madly In Love With Me’s Facebook Page. Reading other women’s self love statements is also incredibly inspiring so do drop by there. If you REALLY want to try your self love luck Christine Arylo has very kindly given me one of these cute ‘Me’ necklaces to give away to a Beautiful You reader.
To win you just need to get the Madly In Love With Me Kit (it’s downloadable and free) and post a comment here at Beautiful You telling me which self love dare or vow from the kit you took and why. You have until February 26th to leave your comment and entry is open to readers worldwide.
Go on! Fall madly in love with yourself. I dare you!
