If I Loved Myself Website

Stepping into what's scary...

is worse than NOT doing it. When you compromise your truth... When I was in my early twenties I chose the 'easy' road - and boy, did I regret it! I was overseas and in a toxic living arrangement. I knew I had to move. So I started to search for othe ...

Is your therapist perfect?

I'm so pathetic!

Free self-love training for doctors and therapists. I'm losing the will to live. I’m so pathetic! she says to me in our therapy session one day. I know I shouldn't complain but I don't know how much longer I can do this. I wake up in the morning ...

Is this your purpose?

Maybe it's not... What is your life purpose? It’s probably not what you think it is.  I think you are already fulfilling your life purpose right now as you read this.  We have this notion that our life purpose is something we do.  It’s your w ...

Are you being stupid?

You may not even realise it. When people do stupid things... People are so stupid sometimes she says, exasperated in our therapy session. How can they not see that if they take that action it will hurt me and cause harm to others around them? I’ ...

A surprising thing happened...

My dream came true. Something surprising happened... How did this happen?! I went from being someone who thought an audiobook was totally out of my reach, to someone who has created and published one. We have these dreams, right? The ones that seem ...

I think he was a guru...

Here's what he taught me. He might have been a guru...The other day, on a quiet mountain pass, I drove past a man walking along carrying what seemed to be his life’s belongings. He had a small mattress and a couple of bags and from the practiced w ...

You're amazing!

Breathe and lean into it. You need to hear this You faced some really tough stuff last year. It wasn't easy but you managed everything that came your way. It doesn't matter if you managed it gracefully or like a klutz, it only matters that you someh ...

Yuk or Yay?

Can you self-lovingly enter the new year? Are your resolutions actually self-loving? Day 29 of 31 of the December Self-Love Bootcamp As we stagger through the final stages of this gauntlet of triggers that we call The Festive Season, we get hit wit ...

Another plateful?

Food, Self-love and You Have another plateful? Day 22 of 31 of the December Self-Love Bootcamp Let me just say one word about food and drink at this time of year: Overindulging. It’s totally encouraged. It’s like when December rolls around, all ...