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Rituals For Self-Love: Ways to Love Yourself More Than Ever

We talk about self-care, but what about self-love? Sometimes they look a lot alike, but there is a difference.

Wendy Miller
The Startup
Published in
10 min readNov 14, 2019

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Self-love can be an elusive thing. When life is good, we love ourselves in abundance. But when things go wrong, we’re often the first to pile on and tear ourselves down.

We talk a lot about self-care (taking care of yourself), but sometimes that gets confused with self-love (loving yourself). While self-care can certainly be one way that you love yourself, self-love itself is a different thing, even though they may sometimes look a lot alike.

In the past, I’ve offered a variety of self-care ideas, but today I wanted to offer some rituals for self-love. These are things you can do to help increase the love you have for yourself, helping you build a better relationship with yourself.

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Deep breathing and/or meditation

Whether you simply stop and take some deep breaths or you go all out by sitting on a cushion, lighting a candle and engaging in meditation, taking this kind of…

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