Imagine a World of Self Love
I co-produced this self love video to INVOKE the energy of self-love into the world. To give us a real sense of what self love is and why it matters.
Why we co-created this video: After hearing over and over again as I went into the world to teach and share the message of self love, things like “Self Love is selfish. It’s hippy dippy. I’d rather talk about leadership or health than self-love. Isn’t self love the same as self-esteem? And the worst, “Self Love? Smirk. Do you mean masturbation” I decided that the world could use a short PSA on what self-love is and why it is one of the most essential foundational parts of the fabric of our being.
We just as a culture don’t understand self-love, don’t really teach it well or at all, and most of us don’t know how to practice it or even where to begin.
As the founder of the international movement and the international day of self-love (Feb 13), I felt called to co-create this video, so that every February, we could ALL watch it and remember how essential self love is for ourselves, those we love and for all the women and girls in the world. I know it’s essential for men too, but I am a woman so this is where I started.
While I wrote and spoke the words, this creation was made possible because of the hearts of all the women you will see in the movie – and a man and two women who you wont see – who gave their energy and time out of their belief that self love does really really matter.
A special thank you to Califa Weiss for filming and editing this movie. To Elzbth Cich and her wise daughters. To Indigo, Yelda, Anne Wagner, Melanie Dewberry Jones, and all the other women who spoke and opened their hearts so beautifully. To Rob Ahlers and Roxanne for the music and vocals, especially made for this and for the self love movement. To Lone Morch for her beautiful studio.
Together as we choose to love ourselves, I know we can and will create a world in which all children born are born connected to love and stay connected to that love. Where we truly do love our neighbors as ourselves because we DO love ourselves, for real.
There is nothing more beautiful, powerful or free than a person who chooses to love themselves #chooseselflove
February 13th is the international Day of Self Love, founded in 2008.
Every year, we invite people to take internal check in to see which of the 10 branches of self-love they want to strengthen that year. Then, we take a single self-love promise that we keep all year that – a powerful practice for making choices that sustain, honor and empower you.
You can access the Self Love Promise Kit here at www.SelfLoveKit.com
And learn more about Self Love Day Here www.DayofSelfLove.com
Post Note: In 2008 I began created a methodology that could help us access the depth of self-love in ways that would empower an individual, therapist, educator, parent, or anyone to practically support themselves and others to build a strong internal foundation that fostered emotional, mental, physically, spiritual and relational wellbeing. And from this strong foundation, be equipped to make supportive, wiser choices in all realms of life that kept them true to themselves and came from a place of wholeness vs, the unconscious wounds and imprints.
In 2015 we formed a foundation called The Path of Self Love which has trained facilitators on 6 continents, continues to host the international day of Self Love, and offers resources to parents, educators, therapists and individual.
You can learn more here at www.PathofSelfLove.org
Here is an image of the Tree of Self Love which illustrates the 10 branches of self-love.