Today I wanted to hop on the blog and chat about self love and what it means to truly love and accept yourself. I have been doing a self love challenge on Instagram this week and I truly admire and enjoy the topic and the response I am getting from all my beautiful insta friends.

This topic truly rings home for me also. For years I hid parts of myself, I didn’t fully express my personality and the quirky parts about me, for fear of not “fitting in” and being judged. When I finally started expressing myself fully I noticed that some people did judge me, but I also noticed that it opened the door for all of the right and true people, places things and circumstances to come into my life.

The truth is life is just too short to hide behind a mask, a mask of not loving yourself enough to fully express your personality, your gifts, your dreams, your goals, your talents.

I invite you to “give yourself a try”.

We spend so much of our lives fighting to be accepted by others, when the person we need to accept is ourselves, and when we accept ourselves, our personality, our passions, our gifts and trust and accept the feeling that we have, the feelings that deep inside we know we are meant for more, meant to pursue that dream and goal, to fully live out our true selves, and instead of seeking approval of others, fight for ourselves, approve of ourselves and “give ourselves a try”.

I invite you to fight for yourself.

I know all about the “should’s”, the “appropriates” the “expectations” that look good on the outside, but leave you feeling lost and out of alignment with who you really are.

I spent years, hiding so many parts of me, and to be honest, I am still a work in progress, it doesn’t have to be perfect, you just have to start, this creates momentum, and small actions taken consistency over time eventually result in change.

You’ve got this.