Happy Valentine’s day loves!!!! See this post is quite lengthy but I have worked on it for a while and I just want to pour out my heart on SELF-LOVE because it’s essential like really essential.
Growing up and being a fan of Nollywood movies thanks to my mum. I have often seen girls go through a lot and hate themselves thereby exposing themselves to more danger. I thought it was just in the movies until I got to the university and heard certain things. Also, I am not here to give you that crappy talk of I have been there and experienced it because I will be lying. Self-love is a beautiful thing and it’s essential because you will always be with yourself no matter what. Now I personally feel there have been misconceptions about what Self-love really is and that’s why this season I decided to team up with awesome female bloggers for this to share more and more on this topic.
Onyinyechi Anozie (iamyeychii) of iamyeychi.com says:
Self-love is not buying yourself a cookie, by a cookie, I mean a bag, shoe, or some prize. It more about loving and accepting who you are, your strengths, flaws and your identity. I am not against getting yourself good stuff but don’t think that’s self-love. People cry in diamonds because they don’t love themselves
You don’t have to be perfect to love yourself: it’s a norm these days for us to love ourselves when we have achieved something. Don’t wait till after convocation, or when you have a baby or when you’re married. Start loving yourself now. Someone once described Love as seeing someone the way God sees them. So, therefore, self-love is seeing yourself the way God sees you and the Bible says a lot to us about that.
I love myself by working on myself, by reminding myself who I’m in Christ. I love myself by giving my life to He who is Love (God).
Ayoyinka Morawo (ayoyinka_) of noiwrites.com says:
Self Love to me means loving yourself enough to know when you DESERVE better and telling yourself when to do BETTER. Self-love isn’t selfish like some people think, you have to love yourself first before being able to replicate that Love to other people. When you love yourself, spirit, soul and body, you exhume LOVE naturally… Like they say you can’t give what you don’t have.
Self-love to me means loving and accepting myself, not overthinking about the things I can’t control. It is also learning my flaws, shortcomings and putting in work to become the best version of myself. I show love to myself every day by generally accepting myself and not think negatively. Also, I buy new shoes or a bottle of perfume when I really want to treat myself.
Self-love, to me, is an awareness of your worth as a unique person and the respective value you place on that worth. I find that self-love is an all-encompassing necessity i.e. Every aspect of your life is better, more enjoyable, when you love yourself. It doesn’t necessarily make life easier, it just enables you to see that even in the toughest times, even when you may feel like you’ve lost it all, you still have the most important person to you, YOU.
Knowing that you can’t love a person you don’t know, I believe, what better way to get to know and fall in love with yourself, than through knowing and falling in love with the one in whom you’re defined. Through this, no matter what happens, what you do or what life does to you, the truth of who you still remain (because His word is forever true). This is my simple formula for falling, growing and staying in love with yourself.
Favour Nnadi (vourdi) says:
Self-love to me is the regard for my out most happiness, don’t get me wrong though, self-love isn’t selfish, egoistic or narcissistic because you can never truly love another until you love yourself
1. Acknowledging that I’m a God-given queen and I am not above mistakes
2. I show myself love by showing others dear to me love
3. I show myself love by trying to accept my flaws constantly
4. I show myself love by my want to be closer to God and grow spiritually
Now to show it physically I get myself gifts constantly I don’t do the self-acclimation thing but when I see something that isn’t helping me grow or showing me the worth of my time I back off.
Self-love is basically a conscious determination to love & appreciate yourself every single moment. Conscious because you need to will yourself to do it! However, the day you condition yourself to do the above, you’ll realize you just gave life the sweetest gift.
Self-love to me is knowing that I don’t need anyone to love me as much as I should or give myself love (Too much English abi ) Let me break it down it’s about me knowing that I need to love myself the way God loves me or the way I would want love from any other person, because I have come to understand that until I love myself no one would love me back (except on special cases)
I show myself love by taking my self out, Looking good no matter the occasion, Taking my self for ice cream and cake, watching Baby daddy and game of thrones, SPA!!!!!!!. I haven’t found out all I need to do to love myself that’s why I love myself more and every day so I can find out more ways.
Thank you so much for reading. Feel free to comment below what you think about self-love and How you love yourself. Have a lovely Valentine’s day. Remember that you are loved by Love.
Self-love is basically a conscious determination to love & appreciate yourself every single moment. Conscious because you need to will yourself to do it! However, the day you condition yourself to do the above, you’ll realize you just gave life the sweetest gift.
This is a really nice blogpost. 🙌🏾
Thank you dear
love is God, God is in me so i am love
Yasss girl!!!!
Nice one Dearie