Now you are an adult, you can take care of and love your inner child. Think of all the things your child wants from your parents and give those things to her yourself. It is usually things like being accepted, …
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Osho Quote: The First Lesson In Love is to Learn How to be Alone
Being comfortable being alone is a deep form of self-love. How can you love yourself if you never spend time with yourself? If you jump from one relationship to another, how can you have the space in yourself to know …
Understanding Your Partner’s Love Language
If your partner received little quality time as children, this will be even more triggering for them. It can re-awaken deep feelings of being unloved and uncared for. You might find that their reaction is bigger than you would expect …
Discovering Your Self-Love Language
When we give love to ourselves abundantly, it is easier to give love in all its forms to others. So, why do we struggle to show love to ourselves? Some of us were taught that it is ‘good’ to put …
Accepting Words of Affirmation
When we have grown up receiving few affirmations from the people around us, it can be difficult to receive words of affirmation as an adult. You might find yourself feeling suspicious and wondering if you are being manipulated. This could …
Gifting Words of Affirmation
Words of affirmation can be incredibly powerful for people who received a lot of criticism as children. For them to hear that they are appreciated and loved for who they are is deeply affirming and healing. It allows them to …
What is a ‘Couple Bubble’?
The couple bubble should feel safe. When you are together, there is a sense of being loved, nurtured and protected by one another. A mutual flow of energy, not one person doing all of the work. It is the foundation …
The Most Beautiful Words on Earth
I think sometimes we can hear the words ‘I love you’ so often that they start to lose their true meaning. I do wonder about languages that have more nuanced words for ‘love’ if this would increase the meaningfulness in …
To My Daughter
If children are first conceived in the mind of a parent, then I dreamed you into being at around 5 years old. Holding my toy doll with knitted purple clothing and pretending to feed it a bottle. I felt you …
Boundaries Are A Love Language
When we have grown up with few boundaries and been taught that boundaries are selfish, it can be challenging to put them in place as an adult. It can be challenging to know what is appropriate, what you need, and …