Love Begins With You.

The way you learn to love others, to love the world, and to create from that space begins with how you love yourself. Self-love isn’t something you earn once you’ve done enough inner work. It is the starting point. It is the foundation. When you truly love yourself, you stop moving through the world judging and rejecting. You stop projecting pain onto others. You stop needing them to change in order for you to feel safe or seen.

The moment you remember that everyone is a mirror—of you and for you—everything shifts. Even in the situations you’ve perceived as painful or unjust, you begin to see differently. You recognize that what you believe someone has done to you says more about what still lives within you than it does about them. That isn’t permission for poor behavior. It’s a return to power. You stop feeding the version of the story where you’re the victim. You stop rehearsing the pain. You stop worshipping the wound.

If you’re serious about embodying someone who loves themselves, the first decision you need to make, the one that changes everything, is to stop criticizing yourself. That voice in your head cutting you down, second-guessing your worth, silencing your light? That voice is not sacred. That voice is not love. We’ve been trained to keep it alive under the lie of humility. Someone compliments you and you toss it away. You shrink. You reject your own brilliance and call it spiritual.

That’s bullshit.

Shrinking doesn’t make you holy. Self-rejection doesn’t make you more worthy. You are Source-Creator in breath. You are divine intelligence in motion. That alone is enough.

Second, start telling yourself the truth. Say it out loud. I love you. I accept you. I see you. These are not empty words. They are frequency. They are medicine. They are the beginning of every change you seek. If someone else doesn’t accept you, that is their projection. That is their field. Say it in the mirror anyway. I accept you. I love you. You are exactly who you’re meant to be in this moment.

What someone else thinks about you is not your business. And the only reason it ever hurts is because some part of you agrees. That’s the real problem. That’s the bullshit that needs to be called out.

Call it out and do it out loud.

“I accept you. I love you. You are perfect as you are.”

You grow when you choose to love yourself here and now. Not someday. Not once you’ve changed enough to deserve it. Now. Because if you keep striving for some better version of yourself, you’re rejecting the one that’s already alive. You keep yourself in waiting. You stay in fantasy. And nothing grows from that place.

Love is the activator and the fuel. Love is the beginning of everything that matters. You are not meant to delay it or to bargain for it. You are made to live it.

Affirmations are seeds. Acceptance is the soil. Your attention is the water. What you speak becomes the reality you live in.

Say it again. And again. And again.

Anchor the truth into this breath. This body. This life.

Because this is the moment, THE NOW that shapes everything.

I love you just as you are NOW, in this very moment of being. Just as you are. I support the growth you desire and the futureSelf that awaits BUT you are still perfect RIGHT NOW. Love yourSelf as you are and the version of you that comes from that is created in love, welcoming you with open arms. Not a forced version that is running away from who you do not wish to be.

With my heart,

Shea