4 Simple Tips to Love Yourself Even More

Valentine's day may be behind us, but that doesn't mean we should stop celebrating love. And what love could be more important than the love you have for yourself?

Is self-love hard? Yes! But that doesn't mean it's impossible.

Which is why we're sharing 4 MORE tips to love yourself.

Grab a cup of coffee, snuggle up and get ready to love your gorgeous self fiercely.

Why Work on Self-Love

Your relationship with yourself is pretty darn important. You spend every second of every day with yourself, after all. And how you feel about yourself can have a huge effect on how you feel in general.

Creating a positive and loving relationship with yourself can be a game changer! It makes you more confident and assertive, reduces self-criticism, helps you weather stress and even encourages you to build positive relationships with others. And you truly deserve all of that.

We want you to be your own bestie, cheering yourself on and making yourself feel awesome, loved and cared about. Here are a few ways to get there:

1. Connect with Yourself

Developing a healthy connection with yourself leads to a keen awareness of what you want, need and believe. You'll truly get to know your gorgeous self. And ultimately that connection helps to empower you to make decisions based on what works for you, instead of what you think others might want or expect from you.

How do you connect with yourself?

There are tons of ways to form a tighter bond with yourself, so focus on what works best for you.

Some of our fave self-connection ideas:

• Indulge in Solo Activities
• Become Aware of Your Thoughts and Feelings
• Practice Self-Compassion
• Move Your Body
• Check In With Yourself Regularly
• Create a Self-Care Routine You Love

2. Schedule Some You Time

Put some time aside for yourself. You deserve to indulge in self-care and all of those hobbies you adore. And, hey, this will help to strengthen your connection with yourself. So it's basically a 2 for 1!

Making time for yourself helps to ease stress and prevent burn out. And, since you can't pour from an empty cup, everyone around you will benefit when you take time to recharge.

Short on time? Take 10 minutes to shower and exfoliate. Self-care doesn't have to take long.

3. Silence Your Inner Mean Girl

We all have an inner mean girl who likes to pop up from time to time. But she doesn't deserve a megaphone! And she's definitely getting in your way as you work on loving yourself.

When negative self-talk happens, work on taking its power away by responding with kindness or simply letting it go. Try to imagine if you would say the same thing to a friend. Or if you'd ever allow someone else to talk to you that way. No way, right?! So why should our inner mean girl's critiques be taken seriously? The biggest bully in your life shouldn't be living in your mind.

Journaling, positive self-talk, self-compassion and counseling can all be helpful tools as you work to neutralize your inner critic. Whatever works best for you is awesome!

4. Stop Comparing

With social media proudly displaying everyone's successes, it's easy to constantly compare yourself to others and feel like you'll never measure up.

But you don't typically see the struggles and hard work behind someone else's wins! We all struggle. And success never comes easy. We just don't typically blast our hardships on Instagram. Which means that you're often comparing yourself to an incomplete picture.

Instead of getting stuck in a comparison loop and feeling inferior, work on getting inspired! Ask yourself what you admire in the other person. And let that admiration motivate you as you pursue your own goals.

Feeling the Love

This isn't the first time we've talked about self-love. We have 14 more tips waiting for you right here. There are tons of awesome ways to work on creating a loving relationship with yourself.

We've love to know what tips you'd add our list, beyouty! Tell us how you work on loving yourself in the comments below.