Ahhhh la France!

How can I count the number of gifts it bestowed upon me? One of the grandest being self-love.

When you do a google search on self-love you will find videos, blogs, quotes, and podcasts speaking about WHY we need self-love, but what I have always found missing was the HOW.

HOW do we love ourselves?

I’ll never forget a memory: me in my early twenties, refusing to spontaneously go dancing with my group of friends.

Now, I LOVE dancing! It wasn’t that I didn’t want to dance, I DID! What stopped me in my tracks was that I didn’t feel confident enough in myself, have enough self-love & self-acceptance, to walk in there and just dance my heart out…while wearing jeans and a T-Shirt.

Instead, I got very upset with my friends who were “pressuring” me to go. I turned it on THEM and was so hurt that they were not being understanding.

(See how we spin things to suit our ego/limiting beliefs?)

The next day I went over to my much older friend’s house and shared my woes, hoping she would agree with my allegations. She didn’t.

We got into a very looooooong discussion and then I asked her, “How do you know what your style is? You always seem so self-confident.”

Her answer? “I don’t know. I just do.”

Not very helpful, right?

This really sent me on a self-love pilgrimage. In 1997-1998 I found myself in France; a country where self-love comes easier. Not for everyone, but there is something ingrained in the women that served me SO well…and I want to share it with you in today’s video.

With SO Much Love,