07- Embracing Self-Love: From Eye-Rolls to Transformation

Spill Your Guts! with Rachel and Mandi

In this episode, our hosts continue the conversation around self-care, this time with a perspective on how it relates to self-love.

Rachel and Mandi talk about how self-love plays a role in relationships, sharing tips on how to build self-love, and most importantly, how crucial it may be to develop self-love before loving others, especially when it comes to dating.

• This episode starts with a synchronicity of the number 7: Number 777 symbolizes good fortune, luck, and change in life. It is an indication of personal growth, overcoming challenges, self-discovery, teamwork abundance, and success.
• The difference between self-care and self-love is that care refers to the actions we take to look after ourselves physically and spiritually while self-love is more like looking after our emotional well-being.
• Mandi and Rachel talk about attending a future leadership retreat although currently, it feels like the retreat space has become very competitive. The demand is much more nowadays.
• When trying to create behavior changes, we have to start from the inside out if we want them to last. This can be very hard in our world today because we look for things that we don't like about ourselves based on what society promotes around us.
• A TikTok excerpt: I just want to remind you that when you speak negatively of your body in front of somebody else, you're also talking about their body, and at no point can you make negative comments about your body and not be inviting someone into a real-time appraisal of their own body. Deep down we believe that we are special, and individually, have a purpose.
• Self-love goes hand in hand with gratitude which also lines up closely with love and joy. One powerful tool for this is Daily Affirmations; speak it as if it is already happening. You have to start believing it.
• Do you think that you have to love yourself before you can love someone else? Rachel believes that it is possible to have both self-love and love for someone else in your life even though it is hard. More often than not, self-love has to happen first. Mandi had to learn to love herself after meeting her husband and this has been one of the foundations of their successful marriage, especially since she never dated anyone until they met. You can't love someone truly until you understand loving yourself.
• With more awareness, these days, the concept of emotional intelligence plays a huge role in dating. In the process of building relationships, there is a tendency to forget ourselves. This is a daily battle we have to engage in so we hold on to our identities. For Rachel, having space in a relationship to work on this is imperative for it to be successful.

"Self-care is the response to self-love"

"You cannot hate yourself into a body that you will someday love"

"How we speak to ourselves matters"

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure; it is our light, not our darkness that frightens us"

"You can't love someone truly until you understand loving you yourself"

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Chapters

1. 07- Embracing Self-Love: From Eye-Rolls to Transformation (00:00:00)

2. Lucky Episode and Retreats (00:00:13)

3. The Journey to Self-Love (00:10:38)

4. Self-Love, Gratitude, and Affirmations (00:20:04)

5. Relationships in Emotional Intelligence Age (00:35:42)