the self-love handbook

Something has recently come to my attention that I want to address here on my blog. I realized that many of my posts are all about body positivity and loving how you look. While these things are definitely important, and vital to self-love, I want to make it clear that self-love goes deeper than how you look. You

Hello, self-lovers! Today, I'm going to be discussing self-love for my male readers.  I realize that my blog tends to be very women-oriented. This is due to a couple of factors. Firstly, I am a woman. Secondly, women tend to struggle more with self-confidence and body positivity as opposed to men. Combined, these two things result in a

Science. Science is admittedly not my favorite subject. However, self-love is! So when the two combine, I'll give it a shot. You read the title correctly: there is science behind self-love. Real, actual, brain-and-physiological-science-and-whatnot. In fact, there's even a whole book about it! "I Heart Me: The Science of Self-Love" by David R. Hamilton Ph.D., linked here: https://www.amazon.com/I-Heart-Me-Science-Self-Love/dp/1781801843 I've

What's holding you back? At some point in nearly everyone's self-love journey, people feel that they tend to hit a snag. Something is holding them back. This is often a haunting past experience, a negative relationship with another person, a deep-rooted misconception about themselves, or an inability to forgive themselves, among other things. Whatever this "snag" may be,