Self Love - Episdoe 166

Sharing Our Journey

Once again, we are now on the farm. I am in our temporary outdoor kitchen. We are living in a camper van and so we've created this outdoor kitchen for us to use for the summer and for the people who live on the farm. We're in a new location since last week.

Welcome to the Unreasonably Grateful podcast. I'm so grateful for you being here. I'm so grateful to be sharing my journey with you and to have you sharing your journey with me.

Just a reminder for those of you who are new, I don't have your answers. You actually do. But, we learn from the stories of one another.

The Topic is Love

So I've recently written a book called Unreasonably Grateful. In previous podcast episodes, I read the stories in that book for a series and now we're in a new series and the topic is love.

The first episode of the new series was letting love in and tonight, it's about self-love, which is actually inspired by one of my individual sessions.

So reminder I'm offering individual sessions on Tuesday mornings. They're on a donation basis. You can sign up here if you're interested.

I'm loving the opportunity of getting to know some of you more personally, it's fascinating to see where you come from and how you found me. I am super grateful for the stories you're sharing with me and the opportunity to reflect back to you exactly who I see you as and calling forth that divine being called "you".

I love supporting you in restoring or reclaiming some of those broken-off pieces, from the things that happen through various circumstances. Sometimes it's childhood trauma, sometimes brokenheartedness, sometimes just not treating ourselves well. There are all kinds of things that impact us. Again I'm grateful that you're here and happy to be sharing with you on this journey together.

Self Love

Tonight's session on self-love is actually inspired by those individual sessions I mentioned. And I just want to say a little bit about that because sometimes people think self-love is "having what I want" or "getting what I want" or putting myself first.

And while self-love may include some of those things, the kind of self-love that I'm talking about is when you're so filled up with love that "you" can't not be included in loving others.

When you're loving others, it's from the overflow, so you're not NOT loving yourself and putting others first, or loving others in spite of not loving yourself. Which, you know has been given so many different names over the years, co-dependency, low self-worth, lots of things like that.

But the self-love that I think we all inspire to is that we're so filled up with love that it's flowing out. That it is flowing in us, through us, and out of us and we're sharing it with other people.

Filled with Love

So that's a kind of self-love that I'm interested in supporting you having, and how you can have that is you empty yourself out so you can be filled with that unceasing, always present, always replenishing divine love that's available for all of us all of the time.

Mostly we're so filled with our opinions, our judgments, and our blocks to that kind of unceasing flow of everything which includes that unconditional flow of love.

So here's what we do. We identify What's blocking us and we name it. Give it a name and notice when it shows up. I recommend you have a conversation with it, converse with it.

You can write a question with your dominant hand and answer it with your non-dominant hand and see if you can't get some insight into why that blockage is there, what it needs, what it wants, and how it's serving you.

Let It Go

Then thank it for the years of service. If it still serves you, leave it there and if it doesn't serve you any longer thank it for serving you and let it go.

How you let it go is when it comes up again, acknowledge that it's there that you see it, and that you're grateful for it. Just let it know that it doesn't need to keep serving you in the way that it has in the past.

It's an aspect of you. It can be there, but it doesn't have to block love flowing in you through you and then out to others. Which is the most beautiful self-love because you're so filled up with that unceasing flow of love that you're loving from the overflow. And you are definitely included in that love force.

Okay, so take that on this week. Identify it, name it, and converse with it. Keep it in place if it serves you, and if not thank it for serving you and then let it go. Okay, see you next week have a great day.