Sustainable Self-Love
It’s been said that ‘love heals all wounds’. And it’s true.
Imagine feeling a grounded sense of relaxation. A knowing that if you make a mistake, it doesn’t change your inherent goodness or worth. A trust in your capacity to achieve what you set your mind to, without needing to achieve to receive esteem or validation from others, or even from yourself. The embodied feeling that not only are you loving and lovable, but that you are love, it’s what you’re made of.
Perhaps you’ve experienced this at times in your life, or perhaps this is so far from your experience that is sounds like a fantasy. It is possible, but only by delving inwards to discover the places inside where we harbor feelings of self-rejection, self-forgetting, self-betrayal, self-abandonment and self-hatred. Only by holding the parts of ourselves that carry negative self-beliefs with love and patience can we truly love ourselves.
Self-love taken to its fullness is a spiritual practice on its own. It truly is a medicine –when we meet each and every part within you with love, even the ugly thoughts or the not so loveable parts, this brings a sense of inner acceptance and integrity that opens the doorway to deeper connection with Self. Ultimately this breaks the cycle of comparisons with others, and the need for external approval, validation and love. Which paradoxically opens the floodgates and allows others to love us unconditionally, because we’re not placing any conditions on them, not demanding their love, or manipulating to receive it, or even afraid to lose it.
This loving of ourselves allows us, just as the cliché says then, to truly love another. We don’t love them because they love us, or love them because they are nice, or make us feel good. We can just love.
We invite you to join us for this powerful experiment in relating with yourself. A new way of relating from yourself to yourself, opening a sense of acceptance, freedom and relaxation in your being, that will flow out into your relationships with others, as well as the world.
This work will be supported by an invitation to our ongoing ‘Inner Work Group’, meeting biweekly to deeply explore one’s triggers, wounding and experiences, resulting in deeper compassion, presence and connection with Essence, and Love.
This 3 hour workshop will:
- Understanding who you really are as Essential Love
- Discovering & Understanding why you lost this identity & connection to Love
- The difference between self-esteem and Self-Love
- How to genuinely value & love yourself without any propping up from the Ego
- Uncovering & Befriending your Inner Critic
- How to work with inner attacks and the parts of us that separate or sabotage us from Love
- Healing wounds around giving, receiving & Being Love
- Breaking cycles of co-dependency
- Create Strong Personal Boundaries
- Discovering why Self-care is NOT selfish & is essential to your evolution
- Release negative self-beliefs around love, value, worth and specialness
- Stopping the comparisons of self to other
- Experiencing Joy & Contentment
- Experiencing Sustainable Self-Love