Hi everybody and welcome to Coaches Corner, I'm going to talk to you about self love today.

We all know self love is incredibly important but what exactly doesn't mean and how do

you actually do it?

That's what I'm going to cover today.

Okay, so let's all take a deep breath before we talk about self love, and that's one

of the things we can do to love ourselves is to actually breathe.

We're so disconnected from our body and our breath so much during the day, so it's always a good

reminder to just take a deep breath. So self love, what is it?

First I'm going to give you some things that define self love, at least from my point of view,

and ideas for how you can amp it up, and then I'm also going to give you a new perspective on how

to understand self love. So hopefully it makes it a little more, well for lack of a better word,

practical for you to understand and apply. So the first thing and really the most important

component of self love is radical self acceptance. Love is not conditional, it's really loving

yourself right here, right now, even if there are things you want to shift or goals you want to

attain, you accept and love yourself fully for the person you are right now. It's not about loving

your future self, but your current day self and your past self, which brings me to the next

component, self forgiveness. It's not beating yourself up for things in the past. It's having no

regrets, it's letting go, knowing that you learn lessons and moving on. It's forgiving yourself

for judgments you've made on yourself, and also forgiveness of others because holding on to anger,

resentment, perceived rejection or blame is not self loving and it really, really wears on you.

Which brings me to the next one, self expression. Often before we can get to forgiveness,

we have to emote our feelings, we have to express them not necessarily to the person,

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