WEEKLY AFFIRMATION 01

When’s the last time you looked in the mirror and said “I love you” to the person staring back at you?

This morning I got up, after channeling my sincerest gratitude for living to see another day, and I opened my beat up copy of The Book of Positive Affirmations as I always do to find an inspirational focus for the day. Today’s affirmation? “I love myself.”

It’s funny, the first time I remember writing this affirmation down, I felt it rather holistically. Now, almost every time I look at it, I can’t help but remember this very specific moment in time — I was probably about 16 years old when I found myself standing in front of the bathroom mirror at Wegmans’. For a while I just stood there looking at myself. The more I observed myself, the more infatuated I became, until ultimately I just said it — “g — — mn, you’re so sexy.”

In mere seconds, I heard a noise in the stall behind me — I hadn’t realised there was someone else in the bathroom that whole time, but even that wasn’t enough to command my attention away from the person standing in front of me.

“I love myself” to me is such a powerful affirmation, because in the moment I speak this over myself, I am declaring that I am open to embracing myself just as I am at this moment, and that I am committed to…