[CHAT]: Self-love
originally posted on 02-08-2017 11:18 AM
Let's be real, self-love is super hard.
In a world where it's way too easy to feel like you're not good enough, getting to a place where you feel satisfied with your body or personality can often be a huge struggle. However, giving yourself care and attention is one of the best things you can possibly do for your mental health! It's been shown to alleviate stress, improve confidence and positively affect the relationships between you and those around you.
So join us on Monday, 14th August at 7:30pm AEST to talk about self-love: what it means to us, what it means to practice it and what some strategies are that we can use to feel as fabulous on the inside as we all are on the outside
Hope to see you there! 🙂
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14 Aug 2017, 11:30 AM UTC
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originally posted on 14-08-2017 9:14 PM
Did anyone else find it tricky to come up with a list?
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:56 PM
@basketofmonkeys what a crazy question I love it!!!!1. My fortunate vocals
2. My piano-playing fingers
3. My blue eyes
4. My tiny ears
5. My supportive nature
6. My organisational skills
7. My ability to fall asleep quickly
8. My driving ability (didn't come easy, took years of practice)
9. My financial skillz
10. My ambition
What are yours @basketofmonkeys ?
originally posted on 14-08-2017 9:10 PM
hmm i'd like 6 and 9 please @StarLord!
@StarLord wrote:
@basketofmonkeys what a crazy question I love it!!!!
1. My fortunate vocals
2. My piano-playing fingers
3. My blue eyes
4. My tiny ears
5. My supportive nature
6. My organisational skills
7. My ability to fall asleep quickly
8. My driving ability (didn't come easy, took years of practice)
9. My financial skillz
10. My ambition
What are yours @basketofmonkeys ?
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:56 PM
In the spirit of self-love, name 5-10 things you love about yourself, or things about yourself that you find awesome.A tricky question for many of us no doubt! Hmm...
1. I care a lot about other people, social justice issues and want to help make the world a better place
2. I am really into organisation and planning
3. I try really hard to avoid judging other people and when I do make judgements I try to question them and break them down
4. I am pretty open minded and want to experience as many things as possible and learn all the things
5. I invest a lot of time appreciating things other people have made - music, films, tv shows, paintings, photography, buildings, gardens, etc
6. I like expressing myself through my quite particular style in clothes, interior design, etc
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:54 PM
In the spirit of self-love, name 5-10 things you love about yourself, or things about yourself that you find awesomeI'm pretty gosh dang fantastic, I'd need way more than 10 to list them all! 😛 Probably. I try not to count lest I be disappointed 😛
ANNYWAys I'm really tired, you might've noticed I already dropped out of the chat but now I am formally saying good night! I've given my winnie the pooh ears and hopefully he survives the night *crosses fingers* anyway. Night everyone! Thanks for joining the chat tonight, it was awesome! You are all amazing 😉
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:55 PM
Good night, @N1ghtW1ng! Sleep well! 
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:56 PM
Goodnight @N1ghtW1ng!!originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:58 PM
goodnight everyone! it has been a great chat 
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:58 PM
Good night @N1ghtW1ng and @May_ ! 🙂
originally posted on 14-08-2017 9:01 PM
Good night everyone! Thank you for the lovely chat! Love to you (and to me, of course, haha!)
originally posted on 14-08-2017 9:08 PM
In the spirit of self-love, name 5-10 things you love about yourself, or things about yourself that you find awesome.
I actually find this quite tricky, Hmmm that means i should do it more often!
1. My eyesight
2. That i'm pretty smart
3. How good I am at making really tasty food
4. I am good with people
5. I can handle stuff that most people would totally freak out about
6. I am a good partner
7. I can make cool stuff
8. I am really good at noticing things other people don't
9. Despite being more than 6ft tall I can be really sneaky and sneak up on my cat 😛
10. I am great at thinking through complicated systems and things like that.
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:53 PM
1. I try really hard at university2. I have a dedicated personality
3. I'm committed and caring
4. I have an awesome relationship with my family
5. I have a good relationship with my close friends 🙂
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:53 PM
Oooh, I like this challenge!
1. I like the fact that I've never given up on myself - my resilience
2. In terms of physical things, I like the length of my hair
3. And its colour
4. My desire to help others as much as I can
5. That I can read and discuss a variety of books.
Okay, that was tough, but I'm glad I did it!
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:45 PM
@Ben-RO yes we definitely should! 😛But yes I have tried doing it digitally! I used to use something called PasswordPad or something similar to that. I think digital would definitely work better for some people! I just personally got too paranoid about someone finding it whereas if it is written I know it is in my room so probably more safe 🙂
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:35 PM
Hey, sorry I'm late.@Ben-RO I get worried someone else is gonna find the journal :P.
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:39 PM
@FootyFan26 same! Especially my old ones! The things I write now I wouldn't care AS much if someone read but good god some of my teenage entries are beyond embarrassing hahahoriginally posted on 14-08-2017 8:31 PM
What are some strategies that you can use to make sure that you feel more self-love toward yourself?
Naps!
Watching Game of Thrones and Snog Marry Avoid
Updating my profile picture
Painting my nails
Styling my hair
Op-shopping
Eating delicious foods 🙂
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:39 PM
Also watching tacky tv shows to chillout and have some time to not think is a good act of self love. The main reasoning behind this is because you need to be able to do things that you enjoy, but aren't necessarily productive without feeling guilty about not being productive. Guilt is the enemy of self love!
originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:40 PM
@Meowkins 'mindless' (but also great) TV shows are my favourite past time :')originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:45 PM
@Meowkins I love everything you just said!originally posted on 14-08-2017 8:36 PM
Naps are my type of self love. You recharge your phone when the battery is running low, so why not recharge your body?
Naps make me feel like I can tackle the world again.
