Your Self-Love Languages🤎
What exactly are Self-Love Languages?
The self-love language acts of service is all about taking practical steps to make your life run more smoothly.
Love Languages are broken up into five categories:Â
-Physical Touch
-Words of Affirmation
-Acts of Service
-Receiving Gifts
-Quality Time
Examples of Self-love:
- Talking to and about yourself with love.
- Prioritizing yourself.
- Giving yourself a break from self-judgement.
- Trusting yourself.
- Being true to yourself.
- Being nice to yourself.
- Setting healthy boundaries.
- Forgiving yourself when you aren't being true or nice to yourself.
Why is it different from Self-care?
To define self-care, it’s basically the act of taking care of yourself physically and mentally. It’s a way to make sure you’re getting the time you need to feel at peace.
Self-love, on the other hand, is about cultivating gratitude and acceptance toward yourself, physically and emotionally. Practicing self-love can look like talking to yourself positively, or dumping a no-good significant other. Self-love means loving yourself unapologetically, whereas self-care is about taking the time to feel good in your skin. Both are besties.🤎
And yes, you need both.
So...
Now that we know the tea on self-love languages...two important questions follow...
How do you show love, to you?
What can you improve upon?
Be well.🤎
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