The conversations we have within our heads have a great impact on our well-being. By reframing our inner dialogue we can shift from self-criticism and unhelpful ruminating thoughts to self-empowerment and loving kindness. This can help us recapture energy and put it to better use.

Self-care from a place of self-love replaces our easy button activities with ones that are good for our future selves. They are actions that will to allow us to wake up tomorrow feeling better and less tense.

I’ve been trying to understand self-love for a long time. I read a lot of articles and books and have written the words myself that we each absolutely deserve love and belonging, but they continued to be just words to me. The feeling of heaviness and self-loathing wasn’t really going away.

I realize now that there is a difference between self-care and self-love and that self-love has to exist internally to really evolve.