Imagine setting yourself free.
When you commit to yourself you understand that your capability to feel loved is immeasurable.
We all need other people. We need community, friends and family to thrive. A partner can be an incredible part of our lives. But we don’t need a partner to be complete. We do however, need an unwavering love for ourselves.
Our society teaches us that the search for the perfect person outside of ourselves is our most important task. Once we have a partner, this same pressure infuses and puts unnecessary stress on our relationship. When you develop an understanding that you are responsible for your own love, your relationships with others also thrive. There will be more room to share real love with others.
The agreements you make with yourself are ways you show yourself you want to love yourself more.
Anyone can take small steps to commit to love oneself.
The goal of this course is to aid you in exploring your relationship with yourself, helping to create and implement agreements that support your highest path of self-love and self-commitment. The work that you put into the course is the foundation for a loving union with yourself that you will carry into the rest of your life.
This is a six week course that builds through exercises of self-exploration and concludes with a ceremony of self-commitment. The course is structured so you receive one email weekly, each with a specific focus and intention. Although the course materials will be available for you to download all at once, it works best to focus on one section at a time, leaving some time between them.
Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest which begins Friday night and concludes Saturday night, or your version of Shabbat, is a good time to do this reflection. Shabbat has been referred to as a “sanctuary in time.” Using this course as an opportunity to carve out time and respite for yourself is a great way to create intention as you dive into this self work.
This course is for you if:
You want to love yourself with more depth.
You are curious to get to know yourself more.
You are in your teens and early twenties and coming into a stronger sense of identity outside of your family of origin.
You are eldering and realize you never spent the time to really get to know yourself.
You are getting sober and going through a process of getting to know yourself outside of your addiction.
You are preparing to have children or already have kids and want to model to them a positive relationship with self.
You want to heal your inner child and teach them self love.
You are in therapy and looking for rituals to support self growth.
You want to kick capitalism on it’s ass (more about this in the course!)
What’s included:
Six weekly emails that include documents including reading, anecdotes, activities, and prompts.
Source sheet of plants and animals and their spiritual significance to self-love.
Audio Recordings of entire course.
Written and recorded Guided Meditation.
Lifelong access to the course materials.
What you will get from participating:
An awakening of self-love and awareness.
A deeper understanding of your desires and visions for the world.
A tool to avoid codependency in relationships through a solid foundation of self-love.
The space and support to make commitments and agreements with yourself.
The ability to tap into your higher self.
A reflection on how you’re in relationship to yourself and others.
Tools for creating ritual and respite in your life.
An embodied sense that loving yourself is naturally what you want to do.
A renewed celebration of your being!
The Story of My Love
Many years ago I married myself. I hardly remember it now but I do remember standing in white (white Levi’s, a white button down shirt and an ascot) in front of a group of friends and comrades. I stood with a long scroll of promises I’d written down; all the promises I was making to myself. After some other rituals (flowers were positively included), I mic dropped the scroll to the floor and looked up to see a small field of smiling faces. I felt really good.
Afterwards, I didn’t feel much different. I was still insecure as hell and struggling day to day to love myself. It was a difficult time. I was battling with an eating disorder, having essential healthcare kept from me, in a cult that looked like an abusive relationship, and struggling to get through grad school with multiple learning disabilities. But I did it. I married myself, despite it all.
All of the things I stood up and promised myself were promises I made to myself before. Many times. It wasn’t anything new. It was, however, an archetype in time; a moment to look back on to remind myself I was working really hard at this thing called loving myself.
My spirit knows the well of love is never ending – as incomprehensible as the universe and as healing as eternity. In our essence we are love. By committing to myself I made a promise to live a life of alignment with my values. Something I now do everyday.
(bag in photo made by the amazing, VISIONSOFYES)
