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The power of Self Love

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The Power of Self Love -Lady J

5 Love Languages

I’m sure we’ve all heard or are familiar with the 5 Love Languages! It was a book that Gary Chapman wrote in 1995 about the 5 over arching categories of receiving and giving love! if you are not quite familiar here are those categories:

Words of Affirmation

Physical Touch

Quality Time

Gifts

Acts of Service

Today as you heard in our A-Log it is so important for us as women to identify how we internalize love so we can be intentional about conducting Self-care! Therefore; we wanted to drop you some ideas on filling your love tank daily. Check em out and tell us your favorite category examples!

Words of affirmation:

  • Mail yourself a letter

  • Sing a love song and put your name in it

  • Look in the mirror & say 5 great things about yourself

Physical Touch

  • Paint your nails

  • Do a good face mask

  • Look on youtube & try a new hairstyle

  • Get dressed up &take pictures

Quality time

  • Go to dinner with your favorite Netflix show

  • Color in a book

  • Dedicate a week to do a good journal devotion

Gifts

  • Go thrifting & buy something vintage

  • Buy yourself flowers & mail it to your job next month

  • Budget out $15-20 a paycheck to get something new monthly

Acts of service

  • Clean out your closet

  • Give away items you know someone needs

  • Give away items you know you don’t need

  • Go to sleep early