What's Left for YOU This Valentine's Day?

When it comes to meaningful self-care, we each need something different, but we all have this in common: nobody can pour from an empty cup.

After you sort out all the handcrafted cards and allergy-safe candy for the whole kindergarten class, the reservations for date night, and the treats to help you cat feel beloved...

What's left for YOU? 

• What would it be like to take some time for your self-care?

• Could you treat yourself with love, without any strings attached?

• What if you didn't have to earn your own approval?

You have so much to give to your relationships and to the world.
You just can't pour from an empty cup. 

Is it just me? I feel like Valentine's Day is supposed to be about love, but it has become just one more consumer burden foisted on us, where we have to perform - to demonstrate our love in a big rose-festooned way - or feel like we're disappointing someone. 

Meanwhile, there's no attention paid to our own feelings. 

What if we're actually letting OURSELVES down by busily lining the pockets of Hallmark, Godiva, and 1-800-FLOWERS, while ignoring what we really need? 

What is that, you ask? 

I don't think there's one answer. 

When it comes to meaningful self-care, we each need something different. Authentic self-care nourishes, energizes and grounds us by working on the root issue: the unnecessary backlog of tension in our bodies. 

Chocolate can be part of that, for sure! But it isn't the whole picture.

Authentic self-care doesn’t use up your time or energy, it frees up your energy by giving you more awareness of what is, and isn’t, serving you. 

Step off the hamster wheel of self-criticism and proving your worth... and open to radical self-love. 

Are you ready to care for yourself as lovingly as you care for everyone else? 

I want to do Valentine's Day differently this year. Will you join me?

Please be my honored guest and join me to move in harmony with a flowing self-love yoga practice on Wednesday 2/14, 11-11:45 am Eastern. 

Self-Love Yoga Flow is a nurturing Valentine's Day workshop for highly sensitive, empathetic people, including parents, who tend to put themselves last and want to change that. 

Since 2002, I've shared the tools that help me find joy, healing and calm in the face of self-doubt, pain and anxiety with thousands of students internationally. I want to support you to step outside the paradigm of self-criticism and proving your worth... and open to radical self-love. 

Are you ready to care for yourself as much as you care for everyone else? Take up space, and take time for yourself, unapologetically.

Your primary relationship is the one you have with yourself. Yes, even as a parent!

You are already whole and worthy of self-respect simply by being here. Self-care doesn’t need to be earned, and it isn’t about changing you.

My friend Nichi says,

"Taking the time to care for yourself in ANY WAY is self-love!"

Giveaway: Khushi Spa LIP SCRUB!

Just in time for chapping season; it’s so natural and delicious you can eat it! I'll choose 3 attendees randomly during the Self-Love Yoga Flow on Valentine's Day to receive a Khushi Lip Scrub as a gift! 

Be my honored guest this Wednesday 2/14, 11-11:45 am Eastern. There will be a replay for 24 hours.

So, after you sort out the cards, candy, and treats for everyone else, how will you make sure there's something special for YOU? Are you ready to care for yourself as lovingly as you care for everyone else? 

Join LIVE on Valentine's Day

There will be a REPLAY available for 24 hours, and... 

You can UPGRADE to the Radical Self-Love Bundle! Pay what you can, $14 or more, and you get to keep the replay plus a beautiful bouquet of self-compassion yoga! 

A version of this article was first posted on my Compassion & Yoga Blog.