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Love Thyself

Welcome to the Love Month

We are into the second month of this new year. February is officially the month to express your love. After all the New Years’ stuff for sale in stores, you see Valentines’ Day stuff. While everyone will be focusing on expressing love for their spouses, significant others and friends, that is not what I have been thinking about. 

Self-Care is Important

Self-care is a big movement. People want to know how to become more productive, how to grow as a person and plenty of other topics. Self-care is a very true thing. It’s something that we have to be aware of. 

 

Our self-care is comprised of our mentality, emotions, and spirits. We have to care for ourselves in all of these areas. There has been a big push about mental awareness lately. That’s fine and we should push to know more about ourselves and those around. While doing that we need to know more about ourselves and love.

 

Before my wife and I got married, it was recommended that we read The 5 Love Languages book. A lot of people have read it and know about the five languages that are discussed, quality time, acts of service, physical touch, gifts, and words of affirmation. We learned about each other and more importantly, we learned about ourselves. But, it’s not enough to just know your love language.

 

Learning about the way in which you receive love is a huge step in self-development. 

So while February is a month where we want to show love to those that are around us, we also should not forget about ourselves. Learning the way that you receive love is necessary. You have to continue to grow as a person. 

 

How Do You Receive Love?

How do you receive love? Are you trying to develop yourself? Start this, today. We spend so. much of our time giving to others and investing in them that we often forget that we should pour into ourselves. You have to make sure that your own tank is full before you can give it to others. 

 

Discussion Questions:

How do you take care of yourself?

Tools for Love

This is the month for love. Why do we regulate love to just one month? Successful couples have learned to show their love throughout the whole year. They have tools for love that help them throughout the whole year. Valentine’s Day is a great time to show your love to your spouse. We should all take advantage of it. To truly take advantage of Valentine’s Day, it should catapult you, show that you can show your love to your spouse all year. It sounds easier than putting something in place.

Tools to help throughout the year.

  1. Calendar/reminders

If you have trouble remembering important dates. Your calendar should be your best friend. Every important birthday, anniversary, and holiday should be in your phone. To help you get ahead of the game, set reminders for those dates. Most calendars you can set a reminder a couple of days to a week or two ahead of time.

  1. Evernote

If you haven’t come across the Evernote app. I’m not sure where you’ve been. Most people use it for note taking and organization. I found a unique way of helping me remember things that my wife has expressed interest in, or things that she says in conversation.

I created a file with her name on it. So if we’re out at the mall and she wants to stop by a store and try something on, I will take a picture of her in what she has. I save it to my folder then if we don’t buy it,  then I will have a future gift I know she will love. No need to rack my brain for gifts. I have a folder full of pictures of things that she has tried on.

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The same goes for conversations. There will times throughout the year where she will mention something like a new hobby or skill that she wants to learn. Maybe a book that she wants to read. All of these things go into folder and can be ideas for gifts at a later date.

  1. Canva

Sometimes you come across a nice quote or a beautiful saying and you want to send it to your spouse. Instead of just sending a normal text message, get creative and jump in Canva.com. You can let your creative juices flow and you can create everything from a poster to a social media post and everything in between. If you’re not the creative type, don’t worry Canva has plenty of templates that you can use and just copy and paste your message.

 

These are a couple of things that you can do to turn the month of February into a year long expression of your love.

 

Discussion Question:

What apps or tools do you like that help you express your love?

Leave a comment below with your answer.