Cultivating Self-Love: The Key to a Life Fully Lived

Have you ever felt like something was missing in your life, despite having everything you thought you wanted? This episode of the Journey to the Soul podcast is a heartfelt exploration of that very question, We unravel the pivotal role of self-love in our lives. With stories from my own experiences, we engage in a transformative conversation about the quest for authenticity and the bravery needed to pursue our dreams. Tune in to discover why embracing your intrinsic worth is not just beneficial, but essential for crafting a life that resonates with your deepest desires.

Together, we'll venture through the many dimensions of self-love, examining how it shapes our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. This isn't just another self-help session; it's an invitation to a profound journey where you'll identify the parts of your life that are silently seeking more love and attention. By the end of our time together, you'll learn how to infuse your heart and life with a love that nurtures and empowers you to grow and fulfill your most cherished dreams. Join me and let's embark on this path of self-discovery, where the love you give yourself sets the stage for a life overflowing with joy, freedom, and abundance.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Hi loves, welcome to the Journey to the Soul podcast. I am your host, jacinda Villa, a spiritual life coach and holistic health coach. Every week, we will be diving deep into all things purpose, wellness, spirituality and creating the life that you dream of. This space is meant to be safe and transformative for you to dive into the deepest parts of yourself. I will share what I have learned from my journey along this path years of research and mentors along the way. Having spent many years living life out of alignment and afraid to go after my dreams, I know firsthand what it means to take the first step down, living a life authentic to you. We are on this road of self-discovery together. It is time for you to live the life you imagined. Hi guys, welcome back to another episode of the podcast. I am so excited to have you here with me today and I really want to dive into something that is just very near and dear to my heart, and it's a realization that I've had more clearly in the last coming months.

Speaker 1: 1:19

But essentially, it's that self-love is the basis of everything. Essentially, it's that self-love is the basis of everything, and if you are on a journey of self-discovery, of trying to find yourself or become more true and authentic to yourself if you are on the spiritual path and it doesn't matter where you may be on this path at all, but self-love is truly the first step on this journey. It's to look within yourself, and that's really what inspires us to actually do that to begin with is when we are on our path and we feel inspired to change something about ourselves or our external life. We feel inspired to make a change or we don't feel fulfilled by the life we have or the life we've created for ourselves, and the first thing that we typically do is stop and kind of reevaluate and be like, no, this isn't working for me anymore, and that may be for various reasons for different people, but ultimately it comes down to us wanting something more for ourselves, and that's, of course, a type of love, and I feel like self-love is something that can get a really bad rap sometimes of it being selfish or us valuing other things over this and not really putting in time or energy into loving ourselves more deeply. But in reality, it is the basis of everything. It's the basis of what we want to create in this life. It's the basis of finding a life that is more full of joy and freedom and peace and abundance. It starts with loving ourselves, and that's something that we don't always realize initially.

Speaker 1: 3:22

You may look back when you've been on your path for a while and realize that, oh, it was always this, this was always the thing that I needed to focus on the most. So if you're starting this path, or have just begun to walk this path of self-discovery or the spiritual path, this is where we should focus our energy the most, because this builds the foundation of everything else that we want to call into our life. Without it, we will never go after the life we desire. We will never be brave enough or have the conviction to really call in all the goodness that the universe wants to give us, because we won't feel worthy and that can look like so many different things for so many different people. Ultimately, we all just want to feel loved and like we're worthy and capable, and so many of us have tied our worthiness to external things that really don't serve us and we've given that power away to someone else to family, friends, the work that we do and in reality, we are just intrinsically worthy simply because we exist and we need to cultivate this life that we want. With this in mind, we need to love ourselves enough to chase after what lights us up, to go after everything that our heart desires and stay true to ourselves and not disregard what we need. And self-love looks different for all of us. There are so many ways that we can pour love into our hearts, into ourselves, and continue to open ourselves up to loving ourselves more deeply, and it's about nurturing those parts of ourselves that we have disregarded.

Speaker 1: 5:39

I invite you to tune in and really listen to what is calling for more love in your life. What aspect of yourself whether that be mental, physically, emotional, spiritually there's always something that is yearning to be loved more, and we can do this and cultivate these things in our lives in so many different ways. For you to meditate in the morning, to give yourself that time and space to connect with that part of yourself, that part of yourself that loves you unconditionally, and to connect to that version of you and to hold on to that for the rest of the day it could be an act of self-love to journal when you want clarity or space to just be and just allow yourself to take up the space that it needs to process things that maybe you don't really focus on a lot of the time. Journaling is a wonderful tool for self-reflection. I feel like journaling is truly a profound tool for healing, and this is something that I can dive into in another episode.

Speaker 1: 7:14

Perhaps it's an act of self-love for you to move your body in an intuitive way that feels good for you. What feels good for you Going on a walk, maybe, doing some yoga, dancing it does not need to be the traditional ways that we feel of moving our body or quote-unquote working out. It can be an act of self-love for you to sleep in a little bit more and get the rest that you need to be the best version of yourself. It can be an act of self-love to read and feed your soul in the way that it wants to be fed. Read, just to read. Read because it makes you happy and it brings you joy. Connecting with friends and family, meeting someone for coffee, whatever feeds your soul at a deeper level. What parts of yourself need to be nurtured that perhaps you have not been nurturing? This is truly the basis of it all.

Speaker 1: 8:27

It is so profound what loving ourselves more deeply can do to our entire life when we do not love ourselves. It shows up in every aspect of our life, our relationships, our career, our personal life, our hobbies I mean everything. It is an identity that we carry and hold on to of not feeling worthy and not feeling like we're capable or deserving of whatever it is that we want and that feeds into everything. You could not feel worthy in your relationship with your partner, you could not feel worthy in your career and therefore you won't go and do everything that you know you're capable of doing. You won't be the partner that you know you're capable of being because you don't feel worthy. You won't aspire and dream of all the things that you want to call into your life because you don't feel capable of achieving or capable of doing. And this is really the first step on this path is cultivating more love for ourselves, is loving ourselves a little bit more deeply and knowing that this is truly the basis of everything.

Speaker 1: 9:58

And I hope you feel inspired to shower yourself with a little bit more love today and know that you are capable of anything. You are worthy of everything that your heart desires. Worthy of everything that your heart desires. You are just intrinsically enough and know that. Hold on to that. Notice everything that you have been disregarding about yourself and pour love into those parts of yourself. I'm sending you all so much love and light. Have a beautiful day, hold on to your light, move through your day with the beauty of all that you are. Do not disregard the incredible being that you are. I will see you all later. Lots of love are. I will see you all later, lots of love. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Please make sure you subscribe so you never miss an episode, and share this message with any friends and family. I'd love to hear your takeaways, so share them with me by leaving a comment below or heading over to my Instagram at Jacinda Marie. I am sending you all so much love.