Self-Love

The journey to loving ourselves fully and unapologetically is one which I make up that we are all on, to one degree or another. And the more that I walk my Tantric path, the more I am called to meet what my mind labels as ‘ugly emotions’ with even greater self-love. It is not always easy or comfortable to accept and befriend emotions that do not feel ‘nice’ and ‘socially acceptable’. 

Yet this is my work. 

This is our work. 

We are not any of the emotions we experience. They do not define us. Our emotions are continuously passing through our bodies and all they really want is to be expressed, and acknowledged in order to begin transmuting into something new.

And so I’ve personally made a pact to stop labelling my emotions as good/bad, positive/negative. To stop generating internal criticism about the natural processing of my experiences. And in staying curious to what is arising, I am choosing to love myself in a more radical way. Warts and all. I’m not there yet. But I’m on my way! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

And here’s a poem on the topic…

Radical Self-Love ❤️

Radical self-love’s an act of bravery and grace

It is a life-enforcing pact less time in doubt to waste

It’s come what may with self to stay, it’s holding myself fiercely

It’s not giving myself away or letting bad vibes pierce me

Radical self-love enables me to make my mark

Consistently and stably, all outside judgments parked

I hear my soul, my fears consoled, my self-talk all-empowering

The love I have for me is whole, within it I keep showering

When we are by our own self backed, it shines out through our face

Radical self-love’s an act of bravery and grace