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February 14, 2018

Happy Self Love Valentine’s Day!

By Tamara Laporte  |   in love notes   

Hello beautiful you! :)

Here is a special message to YOU on this Valentine’s Day. :)

On V-day each year I like to change the focus a little bit from the love for and of “other” to the love for and of your beautiful glorious self.

I like to invite you this year to buy chocolates and flowers NOT ONLY for other people but ALSO for yourself.

Not only that, I would love to encourage you to deepen your self-love/ self-care/ self-compassion practices (or to start a self-lovepractice if you don’t have one yet)! Sounds good? :-)

:) Absolutely go tell your beautiful loved ones how much you love them (do that every day, not just today), but DON’T leave your beautiful self out of this practice! :)

(And by self love I don’t mean: egotism or self-glorification/ absorption, I mean: treating & loving yourself the same way you might treat your child or sister, friend or mother, a person you love dearly – eg: with kindness, gentleness, forgiveness, softness. Self love also means; working on stabilising your confidence and esteem; realising you are good enough, worthy, that you matter as much as anyone else… that sorta thing! :))

More and more do I realise how so many of us suffer from selfjudgement, self rejection, low self esteem, low self worth. I’ve come to believe that it’s one of the BIGGEST things that stands in the way of growth, abundance, love, light, beauty, living our dreams and yes yes, even: world peace. (Low self worth can cause depression and pain – hurt people, hurt people, right?).

So today, on V-day I encourage you to start practising more self love more self compassion, more ‘sitting with the wholeness and fullness of you’, allowing your feelings to be, allowing you to experience all that you experience, forgiving yourself, asking for help, letting go of shame and guilt, saying no more, saying yes more, stop blaming yourself, being gentle and kind with yourself, seeing your worth, noticing the amazing impact and difference you make in this world.

I made a printable poster for you that you can print out and hang up to remind you how to practise self love:

Download the high resolution version of this poster here. You can print out for personal use. Feel free to forward to friends. <3 Download it by right-clicking on the image above and choose ‘save target as’ or download from this link:
GuidelinestoSelfLove.jpg

If no one told you that yet today; you are loved! <3

Have a wonderful V-day everyone, may it inspire you to more self-love, less self-blame and an awe and complete acceptance of the wholeness and fullness of beautiful amazing YOU.

xoox
Tam x

PS. If you want to work more on self love & self acceptance AND develop your creative skills whilst having tons of fun, please consider joining Life Book 2018. We started in January but you can absolutely still join us!

Life Book has been joined by over 19,500+ people since it first began in 2012. It’s had roaring success through teaching participants creativity and personal development skills.

People send us daily message expressing their gratitude and how much Life Book has helped them both creatively and personally. :) I feel so blessed to be able to host such a powerful and life-enriching course each year! This year has started with an incredible BANG and YOU can still join now problem. :) It’s not too late, you get access to all previous content, get life long access AND you can download everything too, so you have the content for year to come! :) Hope to see you there!
xoox

You may also like:

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  • Simple Steps to Self Empathy <3 Love note #17

  • You are doing the best you can. <3 Love note #16

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Spent time painting this very sweet and soothing barn owl this evening. Even though I`ve been making art for years and know the calming effect creating art has on my nervous system; I continue to be amazed by how stress relieving it can be to just sit with paints and let the feelings flow. 😍

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Spent time painting this very sweet and soothing barn owl this evening. Even though I've been making art for years and know the calming effect creating art has on my nervous system; I continue to be amazed by how stress relieving it can be to just sit with paints and let the feelings flow. 😍

The Cozy Fest Alert! 🍁☕️Hello friends! As the weather here in the Northern hemisphere turns to dark, cold and COZY, I’m excited to let you know of a new creative bundle I’ve joined this year: The Cozy Fest!

The Cozy Fest is creative bundle which contains a collection of workshops, courses and eBooks that help you slow down, turn inwards, create with your hands and savour the cozy side of life! Perfect for this time of year! ✨🙌✨

Whether you’re an artist, a maker, or simply someone who loves slow, intentional living; The Cozy Fest is for you.

It’s a space to explore, create, and reconnect with what brings you joy.
What I love about this bundle is that you are introduced to a variety of creative disciplines: from art making to sewing & basket making to photography, mosaics and wreath making, it has a little of everything!

And of course, I’m including a class of mine too!

Check out some of the fun projects that are included (see images).

And the class I’m including is of the sweet kitten sitting by the moonlight (called Guiding Light), it gives off such a sweet cozy vibe for me, I thought it fitted this bundle perfectly! meow! This is a full online class, showing you how to draw and then paint this luminous painting.

This bundle, valued at over $1000 USD, is only available to buy for one week at the heavily discounted price of $65 USD.

☞ Buy The Cozy Fest Here:
https://bit.ly/TamCozy

And another wonderful thing: For every Bundle sold, the organisers of the bundle will donate €1 to One Tree Planted, a non-profit organisation dedicated to global reforestation.

Hope you’ll give it a looksie and sign up my creative friends!
Much Love,
Tam

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The Cozy Fest Alert! 🍁☕️Hello friends! As the weather here in the Northern hemisphere turns to dark, cold and COZY, I’m excited to let you know of a new creative bundle I’ve joined this year: The Cozy Fest!

The Cozy Fest is creative bundle which contains a collection of workshops, courses and eBooks that help you slow down, turn inwards, create with your hands and savour the cozy side of life! Perfect for this time of year! ✨🙌✨

Whether you’re an artist, a maker, or simply someone who loves slow, intentional living; The Cozy Fest is for you.

It’s a space to explore, create, and reconnect with what brings you joy.
What I love about this bundle is that you are introduced to a variety of creative disciplines: from art making to sewing & basket making to photography, mosaics and wreath making, it has a little of everything!

And of course, I’m including a class of mine too!

Check out some of the fun projects that are included (see images). 

And the class I’m including is of the sweet kitten sitting by the moonlight (called Guiding Light), it gives off such a sweet cozy vibe for me, I thought it fitted this bundle perfectly! meow! This is a full online class, showing you how to draw and then paint this luminous painting.

This bundle, valued at over $1000 USD, is only available to buy for one week at the heavily discounted price of $65 USD.

☞ Buy The Cozy Fest Here:
https://bit.ly/TamCozy

And another wonderful thing: For every Bundle sold, the organisers of the bundle will donate €1 to One Tree Planted, a non-profit organisation dedicated to global reforestation.

Hope you’ll give it a looksie and sign up my creative friends!
Much Love,
Tam

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This is one of the paintings we'll make on A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales next year! 😊

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Use: FAIRY25 for 25% off this magical course and join us here;

https://bit.ly/AYOM-Tam (or link in bio/ link tree/ stories)

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