Self-Love Magic with Nikia Phoenix
Limitless Life
Melyssa Griffin
4.9 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever thought about the difference between self-care and self-love?
Usually, we confuse the two. We think self-love looks like snuggling under the covers with a good book, taking a bubble bath, putting on a face mask. But really… that’s how we care for ourselves. Self-love is something so much deeper.
My friend Nikia Phoenix and I discussed it on this week’s episode, and I know her perspective is going to blow your mind. Nikia is a model, writer, dream instigator, the founder of Black Girl Beautiful, and an amazing advocate for self-love. She joined me on this episode to talk about what self-love is to her, how her own self-love journey started, and the methods she uses to tap into honoring her whole truth.
In this episode you’ll hear:
- What self-love means to Nikia and how she expresses it to the world [1:03]
- The way that protecting yourself first gives you space to be able to protect others [6:19]
- Her thoughts on cultivating honesty in relationships with the people around you [9:47]
- What started Nikia on this journey to self-love and grew her desire to share it with others [18:18]
- How you can begin to have real and honest conversations with no expectations [25:27]
- How Nikia uses healing modalities as a self-love practice, and what you can do to start incorporating them into your own life [33:44]
- What magic can happen when you do the work of love and service [44:18]
Our conversation reminded me of what’s possible when we intentionally honor our wholeness in the ways we practice self-love. Instead of seeking joy or fulfillment in the things that can’t provide it, taking time to practice self-love helps us see they were in us all along. :)
Read the show notes: https://www.melyssagriffin.com/nikia-phoenix-103
Nikia’s Website: https://nikiaphoenix.com/
Nika’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikiaphoenix/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Melissa Griffin and while I was in my 20s, I turned a hobby blog into a multi-million |
| 0:05.8 | dollar company. Now, what I've discovered after working with thousands of entrepreneurs is that |
| 0:10.6 | the greatest thing standing in the way of success isn't another business tactic or marketing |
| 0:16.3 | strategy. It's your own mindset. Now, I believe that you're meant for more than just the status quo. |
| 0:23.2 | So on this show, you'll feel like you're sitting down with a friend who's here to help you transform your fears and roadblocks into a truly limitless version of yourself. |
| 0:33.9 | It's time to upgrade your life and business from the inside out. Let's do this. |
| 0:41.6 | You're such an advocate for self-love and the way that you do it is in such a, |
| 0:47.9 | it combines like, in my opinion, this like gentle curiosity with the sense of activism and full honoring of your wholeness, |
| 0:57.8 | this almost fierceness, and I love that about you. So I would just love to know first, |
| 1:02.5 | what does self-love mean to you? I think that my meaning of self-love has evolved since I began this journey years ago. |
| 1:14.6 | Self-love for me means honoring my truth, no matter how that looks, because I think that we |
| 1:22.4 | believe that the truth is going to be ugly, but it's not. I had to confront that myself last year. |
| 1:32.2 | Can you say more about that? What do you mean by we think it's going to be ugly? |
| 1:36.7 | So there was a time, I went to this, on this wonderful retreat that was a creative retreat |
| 1:43.8 | through this place called OnSight. |
| 1:47.3 | And I knew it was going to be a creative retreat. |
| 1:50.2 | However, I wasn't really prepared that it was going to be group therapy. |
| 1:54.8 | I was not prepared for that. |
| 1:57.2 | And I remember being in my cabin and praying and saying, you know, spirit, please show me my truth, |
| 2:06.4 | no matter how scared of it I may be because I thought that my truth was going to be this |
| 2:13.9 | ugly, ugly thing that I wouldn't be able to come to terms with. |
| 2:19.4 | Because growing up and throughout my life, I'd felt this like my truth was this impending doom. |
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