Scrapbooking is My Self-Love Language
What's yours?
Making things. Making things is how I display my affection for other people. Making things is how I show people I care about that they are important to me. That the relationship we share gives me all the warm feels.
IRL, my displays of affection come out especially around food. I love cooking for other people. I absolutely love dinner parties. I love cooking for holidays. I love making special food for people when they're sad, or hurt, or down. I feel remarkably fortunate to have discovered the way that I choose to best express my love for others. Making things is my love language.
That made me start thinking—what about me? What is my self-love language?
I know that cooking is not my self-love language. Part of the pleasure I derive from making food is the communal aspect. Sharing and talking and experiencing a meal at this time, in this place, together. I don't make special foods all for myself—it really isn't that fun for me.
So I started to wonder about how I was communicating my own self-love to me, and then it just clicked in my head—scrapbooking is my self-love language.
I write letters to myself while scrapbooking.
I engage in meaningful dialog about photos of myself while scrapbooking.
I take the time to document the meaningful parts of my life, so that I can reflect back on them, while scrapbooking.
I make myself feel more worthy, beautiful, and interesting by scrapbooking.
I gain self-confidence by scrapbooking.
I tell the world my story by scrapbooking.
I take photographs of myself and have learned to love pictures of me because of scrapbooking.
I have made amazing friendships, founded incredible communities, inspired thousands of ladies, and strive to inspire millions because of scrapbooking.
I am rukristin: feminist scrapbooker because of scrapbooking, and its the best way I know how to communicate my self-love.
Scrapbooking is my self-love language.
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