Self Love

Coming Home to Self: A Journey into Self-Love

There is a moment on every healing path when you’re asked to turn inward, not to fix or perfect yourself, but to truly meet yourself.

To soften into who you are and to come home.

This is the essence of self-love. Not a trend. Not a checklist. But a deep, sacred remembrance that you are already enough.

What Self-Love Really Means

Self-love isn’t aways easy. Sometimes it looks like boundaries. Sometimes it looks like tears. Sometimes it’s canceling everything and resting under a blanket.

It’s the decision to no longer abandon yourself especially when old patterns tell you to.

It’s asking, in each moment:

“What would love do for me right now?”

And then listening.

Why It’s Hard (and Why You’re Not Broken)

If self-love feels like a struggle right now that’s okay. It does when we have spent a lifetime seeking love outside ourselves.

We carry generations of conditioning that said love is something we must prove, perform, or wait for.

But your soul knows the truth:

You were never meant to chase love.

You were meant to remember it lives inside you.

Self-love begins when you start responding to yourself with the same compassion you offer everyone else.

5 Ways to Practice Self-Love Today

  1. Place your hand on your heart and breathe.
    Remind yourself: “I am safe. I am loved. I am enough.”

  2. Speak to your inner child.
    Ask her what she needs. Let her be seen and heard..

  3. Say no to what drains you.
    Even if others don’t understand. You don’t need permission to protect your peace.

  4. Celebrate your soul.
    Write a list of things you love about who you’re becoming — not just what you’ve achieved.

  5. Let yourself be imperfect.
    Self-love isn’t about “fixing” yourself. It’s about choosing to love yourself as you are especially in the mess.

A Reminder from Your Higher Self

“You are not behind.

You are not too much.

You are not too late.

You are a sacred unfolding

and you are learning how to come home to yourself.”

Self-love is a path of remembering not striving.

You are already worthy.

You are already enough.

And you are already deeply, deeply loved.

With love,

Marissa x

Earth Journey Healing


Marissa Miccoli