What is the Difference Between Self Care and Self Love

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While both are important in regards to nurturing your feminine energy, it's super beneficial to understand the differences. Push comes to shove your best bet will always be self care. Self care feeds self love. Taking care of yourself even when it feels like you're pulling teeth always benefits. It could be mundane but it helps your subconscious build a very important habit. That you, are worth taking care of.

For me, I had a good few months when I felt that the way to escape my building rut was self love. I did my affirmations, and kept up with my gratitude journaling. Still, I felt sluggish and generally down in the dumps. It wasn't until I returned to consistent routine that I found more energy. I was getting stuff done again and my discipline was on an upswing. In my experience, there wasn't a valid way to self love out of an emotional rut. It was self care that revved up my self love.

In "Starting Simple Self Care" I bring up simple things that really just speak to showing up for yourself. A lot of the time, showing up for yourself is quiet. Things like making your bed and brushing your teeth. It's spectacular all in itself when you indulge in slowing down. The mundane is special for what it makes space for.

• indulge in a 15 minute face mask

• explore a new hobby

• stretch

Creating Consistent Routines That Encourage Femininity

Introduce feminine habits into your routine and have fun with them! Indulge the softness and the glamour. Your routine is beneficial to you in its consistency. Get excited about spending time with yourself. Give yourself grace and be attentive to your needs.

It's true that your routines decide who you are. The good news being, you decide your routines. Sometimes it won't feel that way due to things other responsibilities. With a bit of tough love, I say: Your first and biggest responsibility is yourself. Your routine is familiar. So, familiarize yourself with consistency. Show up for yourself every day with the same amount of time. Time is most important. Exactly what you're able to do with that time, can vary. When you're consistent in your routines, you introduce the pampering.

The Added Benefit of Morning Routines to Your Feminine Energy

In my routines I've found peace. I've also found a lot of opportunities to get to know myself. What makes me feel pampered and what makes me feel pretty. Quiet time alone is strongly encouraged whenever possible. I've become almost addicted to the little paradise I create for myself within my routines. Starting with a morning routine consistently is the first thing that really grounds every day. Any routine on top of that is building off the benefits of the morning routine.

How Feminine Energy is a Balance of Tough Love and Emotional Softness

How Tough Love is a Feminine Trait

Earlier I mentioned tough love in association to responsibility. While that could be the long and short of it. I think there's more to that picture. Tough love also means enforcing your boundaries. Or holding your tongue when you're wrong. It falls into the world of holding yourself accountable. It means to recognize where there needs to be moments of growth. Because when you end up looking back you'll have something to celebrate.

Like being a better listener:

The Powerful Femininity of Emotional Softness

Continuing in the direction towards being more warm and inviting. To yourself. Your appeal and allure stems from what you nurture inside. Being in progress is a beautiful era as a woman. Because, the tough love in feminine energy projects into somehow always getting your way.

On the other side of the coin, of course. There is emotional softness. We've been told time and time again as women. This is a man's world. We need to toughen up or we will get nowhere. You see, they're lacking the fundamental magic of femininity. The world is ours because of our emotional softness. Vulnerability is your strength.

In being soft, and vulnerable, you start to trust your gut. Developing the nuance that helps you guide the world into the kind of place that serves you. Femininity is knowing you're not actually in control. But, in releasing that emotional control the world is given to you. The focus is the people, places and things that nurture you. Follow where your feminine energy leads you. You'll know the way by how at peace you feel. With time, you'll find the difference between what you feel and what you're expected to feel.

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