{"id":1950,"date":"2011-07-29T00:47:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T04:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2011-07-29T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T17:46:47","slug":"christine-arylo-on-loving-yourself-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/07\/christine-arylo-on-loving-yourself-after-loss.html","title":{"rendered":"Christine Arylo on Learning to Love Yourself after Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently spoke with Christine Arylo, the author of <\/em>Choosing Me Before We, and… can I say wow! She really is the “Queen of Self-Love”. She devotes her life to teaching women how to love themselves in order to find happiness and wholeness not only in their relationships, but also in their lives. You can read the article here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

We spoke for a good half hour and not everything could make it into the article, so I’ve got a bonus feature for you.\u00a0 In reading your comments over the last few months, I know many of you are grieving the loss of a spouse. Whether it’s through death or divorce, the pain is excruciating and it can leave you with a damaged sense of self — like, “Who am I now that he\/she is gone?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Christine coaches people throughout the year through her speaking engagements and workshops. I asked her, what is the best piece of advice you can give people to recover from heartbreak and here’s what she told me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, a couple things I would say. One, whenever you go from being two to being one, it\u2019s definitely an opportunity to really come back to yourself. So my first piece of advice to people (and I don\u2019t say advice, but my learnings I offer to people) is to make that commitment to yourself to fall in love with yourself.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a big believer in making self-love promises, because I believe when we make a promise to ourselves, we\u2019re much more likely to keep it. Often I only think of promises and vows in relationship to other people. So I know for me making a vow I\u2019m going to follow up with myself for the rest of my life really gave me permission to become my own best friend. It gave me permission to date myself. It gave me permission to go on a journey to understand who am I outside of any other relationship.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s a quality that I refer to as sovereignty, and actually I call it the feminine superpower of sovereignty. Sovereignty is really being able to be whole within yourself. [In Greek mythology], it\u2019s correlated to the goddess Artemis. Artemis was Zeus\u2019 daughter and she basically said to her dad, ‘I want to be a virgin and live in the forest and do my thing.’ To be a virgin at that time meant to just not be controlled by any man, to be your own person. So she did. She was her own person. She had many lovers and she had many children, all of that. But she was her own person. She could take care of herself. So there\u2019s a thing I think that happens and I\u2019ve seen it with the women, who I\u2019ve watched either get divorced or have lost their husbands, where they take this journey back to self-love with sovereignty to discover themselves.<\/p>\n

Another way would be to get connected to other women. I think that especially for my generation and the generation that you\u2019re talking about in their 50s and 60s, we are so separated from other women. There\u2019s something about being in circles with other women whether it\u2019s a retreat or it\u2019s a group or in any kind of community setting where you can be with other women and share your journey. Such healing and such self-awareness happens because you start to see yourself in other people. That\u2019s why I do a lot of group coaching, because I know the power.<\/p>\n

Then I would say to people to go back to who you were when you were a little girl and remember the things that you loved before anyone told you that you can\u2019t or you shouldn\u2019t. Go back to those things that you just inherently were drawn to. Start doing those again. It\u2019s a real opportunity for liberation going back to when we were little to find those places in ourselves that we have shut off for a long time.<\/p>\n

For more, read Christine Arylo: How to Fall in Love with Yourself<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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