This Is How You Move Toward Embodied Self-Love

Hey, you,

Something so powerful and deep happened in a coaching session a few weeks ago.

I've been thinking about it and wanting to share it, thinking it might click a few things into place for you, too.

Because most of us...we want to experience love with a partner, with our person.

The idea of self-love can feel so far-fetched and inaccessible because we first experience love in relationship and attachment to our primary caregivers.

So how do we go from that experience to reflecting that inward as adults seeking to empower ourselves with a deep connection within?

How do we meet our own needs and love ourselves?

Photo by Joanna Nix-Walkup

Here are three exercises you can move through to shift from outer love to inner love:

EXERCISE ONE:

Sit or lay down and project your partner or an ideal romantic partner out in front of you.

Then request what you most need or want from them.

Maybe you need their love, their affection, their attention, their acknowledgment.

Perhaps you want care or connection, safety or excitement.

Then receive from them what you need in exactly the way you need it.

See it. Feel it. Hear it. Taste it. Smell it.

Bring yourself fully and completely into the experience of receiving what you most need from your partner.

EXERCISE TWO:

As you sit or lay down, project out in front of you an image or color or shape of unconditional love.

Maybe it's a nourishing form of unconditional love.

Perhaps it's a safe, secure, protective form of unconditional love.

Then feel into what you most need or want from them.

Maybe you need care. Maybe you need affection.

Perhaps you want safety or attention.

Then receive from unconditional love what you need in exactly the way you want it.

Once again...

See it. Feel it. Hear it. Taste it. Smell it.

Bring yourself fully and completely into the experience of receiving what you most need from unconditional love.

EXERCISE THREE:

With a hand mirror, a full length mirror, or in the bathroom, take a full and complete look at yourself.

Stop, and look into your own eyes.

See yourself and ask yourself what you most need and want in this moment.

Maybe you need love.

Maybe you need acknowledgment.

Perhaps you need fun...or playfulness.

Offer yourself what you most need in exactly the way you need it.

Request from yourself...

Receive from yourself...

And experience with your whole bodymind embodied self-love.


You are worthy of love.

You deserve love.

You are loving.

You are lovable.

And I'm here supporting you and cheering you on toward self-love and a deeper connection within.

Offering love on your journey,
Daniela