How to Love Yourself Better | A 30-Day Challenge

Are you up for a challenge!? Awesome! I challenge you to 30 days of self-love! For the next 30 days, pamper yourself! Self-love is so important; I cannot stress it enough! This challenge calls you to spend 30 days indulging and taking care of yourself, working on loving yourself. Self-love is more than just loving your life. It is loving who you are and taking care of yourself. So many people spend their time taking care of others (their spouse, children, clients, friends, etc.). This is great, but we forget to take care of ourselves! Take part in the 30-days of self-love challenge!

So what is self-love? Well, according to Deborah Khoshaba over at Psychology Today, “Self-love is a state of appreciation for oneself that grows from actions that support our physical, psychological and spiritual growth. Self-love is dynamic; it grows by actions that mature us. When we act in ways that expand self-love in us, we begin to accept much better our weaknesses as well as our strengths, have less need to explain away our shortcomings, have compassion for ourselves as human beings struggling to find personal meaning, are more centered in our life purpose and values, and expect living fulfillment through our efforts.”

This challenge incorporates a ton of ways you can implement daily self-love in a small not-so-time-consuming way.

Without further ado…

More On Self-Love & Loving Yourself

Self-love could be re-phrased as self-acceptance. When you accept yourself as you are right now, and love yourself just for being you (despite your flaws, despite your failures, and despite your past poor decisions) your life truly begins to open up. Unfortunately, it sometimes takes a mid-life crisis or traumatic divorce to break us down. A bit like Humpty Dumpty, to allow us to build ourselves back together, we need glue (aka self-love).

Excerpt from A Lesson on Self-Love | The Importance of Loving Yourself

30 Days of Self-Love Challenge

This self-love challenge includes some of my favorite relaxation and self-care activities. But, please, by all means, love yourself the way that is best for you. If you don’t like puzzles but you like story-writing, then write a story on the days I challenge you to complete a puzzle. It’s completely customizable! Let’s get started!

1. List 5 reasons why you are grateful for today
2. Lit a candle when you get home
3. Read 10 minutes before bed
4. Do a puzzle or creative activity
5. Stretch for 5 minutes
6. Spend 15 minutes electronic-free
7. Drink 60 ounces of water
8. Get 7 hours of consecutive sleep
9. Drink a cup of tea
10. Clean or organize something
11. List 5 things you are good at
12. Take a 20-minute bath
13. List 5 reasons why you are grateful for today
14. Drink 60 ounces of water
15. Spend 20 minutes electronic-free
16. Meditate for 5 minutes
17. Drink a cup of tea
18. Stretch for 5 minutes
19. Clean or organize something
20. Avoid sugary foods
21. Do a puzzle or creative activity
22. Light a candle when you get home
23. Get 7 hours of consecutive sleep
24. Journal about your day
25. Take a 20-minute bath
26. Read for 10 minutes before bed
27. List 5 reasons why you are grateful for today
28. Meditate for 5 minutes
29. Clean or organize something
30. Journal about something that you love and why you love it

For this challenge, you will need…

• An open mind
• Willingness to love yourself
• 30 days of commitment
• A candle or multiple candles
• A journal or notebook
• Water
• Tea, any kind will work
• Bathtub
• A leisure book of your choice

And if you don’t have all of this, don’t worry because you can change the challenge to fit you!

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