8 Simple Yet Transcendent Strategies to Practice Deeper Self Love

Deeply accessible — and affordable — steps you can take to develop a healthy and nurturing self-care practice.

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According to Audre Lorde, self-care is not just an indulgence but rather an “act of political welfare.” 

As a therapist, who largely sees women who are trying to juggle more than is possible, I keep this quote in mind during most sessions. Women are not just mildly burdened by trying to do it all, they are truly exhausted. And the pressure, oftentimes to remedy this exhaustion, is through someone curating a good set of self-care strategies. Unfortunately, these strategies are often expensive, time consuming, and don’t cultivate long-lasting feelings of self-love — which is really the goal of self-care. 

While discussing these struggles with clients, I try to listen, identify obstacles to self-love, then create strategies together. My goal during these dialogues is to try and make the idea and possibility of self-love simple, affordable, and deeply accessible. The essence of self-love strategies is to create a long-lasting and respectful relationship with yourself, one that supports the psychological, spiritual and physical. 

Here is a set of essential strategies that have helped my clients:

Boundaries

The fundamental principle for surviving this world intact is the creation of