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!
- List 5 reasons why you are grateful for today
- Lit a candle when you get home
- Read 10 minutes before bed
- Do a puzzle or creative activity
- Stretch for 5 minutes
- Spend 15 minutes electronic-free
- Drink 60 ounces of water
- Get 7 hours of consecutive sleep
- Drink a cup of tea
- Clean or organize something
- List 5 things you are good at
- Take a 20-minute bath
- List 5 reasons why you are grateful for today
- Drink 60 ounces of water
- Spend 20 minutes electronic-free
- Meditate for 5 minutes
- Drink a cup of tea
- Stretch for 5 minutes
- Clean or organize something
- Avoid sugary foods
- Do a puzzle or creative activity
- Light a candle when you get home
- Get 7 hours of consecutive sleep
- Journal about your day
- Take a 20-minute bath
- Read for 10 minutes before bed
- List 5 reasons why you are grateful for today
- Meditate for 5 minutes
- Clean or organize something
- 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!
