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February 15, 2023

More Self Love – Valentine 💜

By Dan Tanner  |   in art journal  | Tags: art musings , art journal , tamara laporte , Willowing Arts  

Happy Self Love Valentine ♥️

Most of us are kind, caring and loving to others, but few of us grant ourselves the same care, love and kindness that we give to those we love.

So on Valentine’s Day each year I like to invite my wonderful creative friends, to deepen their relationship with themselves and remind you to make time for self-care, self love and self-appreciation.

Treating yourself with anything less than gentle kindness, compassion, empathy and understanding can have all sorts of negative impacts on your mental health, self esteem and general wellbeing. Self love and self care might seem frivolous or unnecessary, but these practices can have a profound impact on your mental health and general wellbeing.

So what does “self love” look like you may wonder?

Well, this area is vast of course and depending on what you’ve experienced in life, self love can look like all sorts of things; from doing deep trauma work with a therapist & to setting strong boundaries to making time for yourself to do fun things, making self gratitude lists and having a nice bath once in a while amongst other things.

The key is to treat yourself like
you treat someone else you love deeply. 

♥️ 
Gifts!
On this day I’m making 3 Self Love Posters Available as a
Bundled Download FOR FREE! YAY! ♥️♥️♥️ 

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Download the high resolution versions of the posters in this bundle here. You can print these out for personal use. Feel free to forward to friends. ♥️♥️♥️
If no one told you yet today; you are loved! ❤️
Have a wonderful V-day everyone, may it inspire you to more self-love, less self-blame and an awe and complete acceptance of your unique amazing SELF!Much love,
Tam 💕PS. If you want to work more on accepting and loving yourself, we have just started Life Book 2023 on which we do all sorts of exercises both creative and personal to help you become kinder to yourself. If you haven’t joined yet, you can, here. We have made it available again with 30% off (no code needed this time), for just 3 more days! Hope to see you there. ❤️

🌟 Uplifting message of the month: 

 

 

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The wonderful Jennifer ( @therapistsanctuary ) and I filmed another episode of `Creative Sanctuary`. This one is all about `Shadow Work`. 😊 Come hang out with us for a bit and let us know what you think? ♥️♥️♥️ The video is now live! Link to my channel in my linktree on my profile/ bio. ♥️♥️♥️ Or go here: https://youtu.be/Sce7V9gDMGQ?si=P9wRMQNlpy_7JwOP

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The wonderful Jennifer ( @therapistsanctuary ) and I filmed another episode of 'Creative Sanctuary'. This one is all about 'Shadow Work'. 😊 Come hang out with us for a bit and let us know what you think? ♥️♥️♥️ The video is now live! Link to my channel in my linktree on my profile/ bio. ♥️♥️♥️ Or go here: https://youtu.be/Sce7V9gDMGQ?si=P9wRMQNlpy_7JwOP

This little cutie on a swing just popped up on my memories and I love the mixed media textures and her cutie little face in this so much! 😍😍😍 I painted this 6 years ago.

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This little cutie on a swing just popped up on my memories and I love the mixed media textures and her cutie little face in this so much! 😍😍😍 I painted this 6 years ago.

The wonderful @therapistsanctuary and I have filmed another session for our `Creative Sanctuary` series on the y tubes 😊 . This time we talked about `shame` and `shadow work` in general. Jen made a doll and I made an empathy monster! 😊 Many of you will have created an empathy monster with me before in response to the Shadow Work Life Book lesson in the past (and also on woman unleashed!) This cutie did not disappoint me. 😊 The episode will be up on my channel soon! ♥️♥️♥️ Link in my bio/ linktree.

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The wonderful @therapistsanctuary and I have filmed another session for our 'Creative Sanctuary' series on the y tubes 😊 . This time we talked about 'shame' and 'shadow work' in general. Jen made a doll and I made an empathy monster! 😊 Many of you will have created an empathy monster with me before in response to the Shadow Work Life Book lesson in the past (and also on woman unleashed!) This cutie did not disappoint me. 😊 The episode will be up on my channel soon! ♥️♥️♥️ Link in my bio/ linktree.

When I`m low and life feels heavy, I end up creating innocent, delightfully cute creatures. I don`t tend to paint `my pain`, I tend to paint `what I need` or `what will soothe me`. The sweet characters offer a reprieve of some sorts, an escape from the dark, a soulful moment of compassion and empathy. I can hear this cute little guy say; “hey hey, it’s gonna be ok, want a cookie or a hug?” 😊 Hope he brightens up your day too. ♥️♥️♥️

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When I'm low and life feels heavy, I end up creating innocent, delightfully cute creatures. I don't tend to paint 'my pain', I tend to paint 'what I need' or 'what will soothe me'. The sweet characters offer a reprieve of some sorts, an escape from the dark, a soulful moment of compassion and empathy. I can hear this cute little guy say; “hey hey, it’s gonna be ok, want a cookie or a hug?” 😊 Hope he brightens up your day too. ♥️♥️♥️
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