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Brilliant One,

I heard someone say that self-care is not about manicures, it’s about creating a life you don’t want to run from.

And I agree.

Except I’d go one step further. 

Self-care is about all the loving ways we can feed and nourish and move and dress and adorn and adore our bodies, taking in as much as possible of the beauty we can put in, on and around them.

But at a soul-level, self-care is also about making all the lavishly self-loving, self-expressive, delectably unrepressing choices we can make in every area of our lives.

It’s about awakening and unfurling into a life free of self-judgment and self-criticism.

It’s about creating loving work, loving relationships, loving ways of operating in the world and in your body, and in your home. 

Self-care is about fully and joyously inhabiting your physical spaces, to quote Louise Hay, filling your rooms with the vibration of love so that all who enter, yourself included, may be nourished by it.

It’s about opening yourself to receive the loving abundance that is your Divine Inheritance, in your finances and also in every way abundance shows up in the world. 

It’s about giving yourself permission to bring 100% of yourself to the world, withholding less and less, gradually… then, over time, withholding nothing.

It’s about practicing radical acceptance of yourself and your experience of life, and your process of growing and learning in life, and even accepting the way the world works. It’s about no longer fighting the waves of life, but learning how to surf them instead.

Self-care includes doing what inspires you, just because it inspires you. No other reason, no other justification, no monetization needed.

Self-care is about indulging in nature. 

Indulging in music and movement and travel: making the whole world your personal playground and becoming a citizen of the world, with a global point of view. 

Self-care includes setting down your portfolio — the baggage — of grievances, grudges and struggles, so you can move forward in life with freedom and ease. 

Indulging in revelry on any subject, any time, with anyone, just because it feels so good.

Self care is about giving your dreams, desires and creative callings the chance and the resources to come to life.

Which means self-care is also, at the core, about releasing and rewiring the habit of resisting or refusing your callings.

So self-care is about watching the fear of your own dreams and desires rise and fall, without letting it run your life or drive your decisions. 

It’s about about creating a life — not just a life you don’t want to run from — a life you’re eager to live, a life you love to look at when you wake up in the morning.

Self-care is about trusting life. 

It’s about lavishing openness and warmth on yourself. 

It’s about pouring attention and affection and appreciation into yourself. 

Giving yourself the time and space and resources to get ready and then to start doing what you deep down know is calling you, over and over again. 

Because this life is not a one-and-done journey. 

It is eternal. Just like you. 

Which means that congratulations are due, because you literally have all the time in the world to practice becoming more and more you, through self-care of every shape, form, flavor and degree. 

So if you want to start down this journey into soul-level self-care, start by giving yourself unconditional love for exactly who you are right now, exactly who you’ve always been, exactly who you’re becoming, and exactly wherever you are in the process. 

Start by reminding yourself that you are a masterpiece and a work in progress. 

Always, in all ways.

That’s who you are.

Head up + heart out,

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