How do you accept yourself? Why is self acceptance important? What does it feel like to have self acceptance? These are some of the questions we’re answering in today’s EMBODIED Self Love series episode. We’ve already covered the first two principles of the EMBODIED Self Love Framework – Self Awareness and Self Knowledge.
How well do you really know yourself? And why does self knowledge matter so much? In order to do any of the work of EMBODIED self love, you really do need to know yourself. You need to know things [for starters] like: -What’s ok with you and what’s not ok with you?-What excites you what doesn’t?
What does self awareness mean? How do you improve self awareness? Is self awareness a skill? Is self awareness hyphenated? These are the types of things people search for when it comes to the meaning of self awareness (that last one was included to be funny, but it’s actually the number one search result – go figure!)
Do you see people talking about self love all the time and wonder, “But how?” Or get caught up in memes that sound smart or profound but don’t get how to actually apply them?That’s how a lot of people approach self love – like it’s a thing you will eventually attain if you just focus on it – but here in the EMBODIED Living world, we know it takes more than that.
Last week, an acquaintance of mine, Kelly Watkins reached out on Instagram to share a post with me about how she’d be diagnosed with incurable blood cancer and asked if I’d be willing to have a conversation about death and dying on the podcast. She herself has worked on both sides of life as a nurse in labor, so she has a lot of perspectives to share.
This is not the typical conversation about perfectionism, y’all, and I am warning you upfront, that you’ll probably want to listen to it at least three or four times.Today my guest is my dear friend Jessica Fish, who is also (and she would likely not own up to this…) a genius.Her big truth was around the importance of community and external affirmation.