Lessons from a Recovering Doormat

Today is Day 23 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. Life can get hectic. Stress triggers are everywhere. A great way to say, “I love me!” is to give yourself some quiet time. Take yourself out to lunch…

Today is Day 22 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. This is post 220 in my series on the Law of Attraction in Action. You CAN use your power to manifest your desires.. I do it every day!…

Today is Day 21 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. Few people like criticism. I sure don’t, especially when it’s about something that means a lot to me, or that I can’t change. Criticism is especially hard to…

Today is Day 20 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. I’m delighted to have Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., as my guest today. She’s an expert on the psychology of eating—the how and why, not the what of…

Today is Day 19 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. A very loving act is to spread your love to other people. Almost everyone feels good receiving hugs, kisses, kind words, thoughtful deeds, notes, caring gestures, etc. They…

Today is Day 18 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. It can be easy to fall into habits of not caring how you look in public. You can get lazy about making an effort to have a nice…

Today is Day 17 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. I recently asked some experts how they show themselves love and included some in a previous post, to give you more ideas that you can use for yourself.…

Today is Day 16 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. I admit, I don’t own a Smart phone or any of the tech gadget that seem to be prevalent nowadays. I refuse to walk around the city looking…

Today is Day 15 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. This is post 219 in my series on the Law of Attraction in Action. You CAN use your power to manifest your desires. I do it every day!…

Today is Day 14 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. It can be exhausting to be on a mission to be perfect and can set the critical voices in your head on overdrive. I’ve watched people spend their…

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