Episode 21: Self-Love Tool: How To Work With Summer In Your Self-Love Journey
It’s time for another self-love tool! Class is back in session. Our last session was about working with Winter. You worked on yourself and looked for the light. Well lovely, the light is here and it’s ready for you. And the sun wants you to shine this season.
Throughout my self-love journey, I’ve used a lot of tools to help love myself more, learn new things about the lovely life I want to live, and even tried on new hats. Summer is perfect for that. Let me show you how to use Summer for your self-love journey.
Summer for Self-Love
Seasons have helped me understand that nothing in our self-love journey is permanent. Even when life feels like it has the emergency break on and we have no where to go, the seasons come and go. Nature reminding us that change is constant, even if our timeline feels a bit slower than the flowers blooming or the leaves falling. Sometimes the light and the dark is a better mood ring too.
There’s something about Summer that invites us to step outside our usual routine. From summer breaks to vacation vibes, the season wants you to embrace the external sensation of what the sun holds for you. While Winter was a time of internal growth, Summer wants you to test out that growth and show you how much you’ve grown.
Self-Love Tools for Summer
Over the years, I’ve tried different things in the Summer to help me actively participate in my self-love journey. This episode, I share three different paths you can take for your own self-love journey this summer. Try one, try all. You don’t have to do them all this Summer, remember that the scenes change and there will be more Summers.
- Try on a new hat: It’s time to archetype and explore a version of you that you’ve always wanted to be. Summer is all about trying new things. I encourage you to try aa future hat on more than living like a favorite character, only because you’re looking for your lovely life. Start with a mood board for inspiration, then take baby steps to activate this new archetype. Small things into your every day routine that slowly become new rituals in a new life you’re creating.
- Make an Inner Child Bucket List: We talk a lot about how important inner child healing is in your self-love journey. Summer is a perfect time to invite your inner kid to play. Make a Summer bucket list or a Summer BINGO card to kick off the Summer with things you’ve always wanted to do as a kid in the Summer or recreate fond Summer memories as an adult. This helps you heal through joy and provides a safe space for you to live carefree as an adult.
- Get out there: Summer is the perfect time to put yourself out there. You’ve spent Winter healing, Spring blooming, now it’s time to show yourself how much you’ve grown by interacting with people outside of yourself. You’re ready! Whether you choose to try a new hobby and take classes, go on a solo trip with a group, or try dinner with seven strangers, Summer wants you to shine bright in new spaces. Whatever you choose, the intention should always be you first, others second.
Diving Deeper This Summer
Aside from the core three, if you’re feeling like you need a bit more extra credit, I dive into a deeper way to work with Summer. Our first self-love tool centered around how to work with Mercury Retrograde in your self-love journey. This Summer has one, so you can layer your Summer archetype with the retrograde or go even deeper and work with the element of the season.
Since Summer is focused on welcoming the Sun, I look at the sun transits to amplify my self-love work ini the Summer. You can do our level one of element only (fire, water, earth, air) or step it up to level two and really embrace each Zodiac to see what you can learn from them. Level three? Figure out where these placements are in your chart and what houses they are amplifying for you this summer.
The first half of Summer kicks off with Cancer season. It’s an emotional time layered with a super charge force forward. The second half of Summer propels us into firey Leo season. An opportunity to shine bright and be the main character. The last part of Summer grounds us back to Earth and prepares us for the harvest transition of Fall. Virgo wants you to tie up the archetype and lock in.
My Self-Love Summers
Over the years, I’ve tried all these tools. They keep evolving as I evolve. The infamous Roman Woman archetype continues to follow me every Summer. I think she’s trying to tell me to stop trying on the hat and just BE her. Always. No need for Summer. I used to rely on travel a lot to show me different paths to myself. My trip to Italy opened up this archetype and I’ve continued to tap her on the shoulder when I need to be reminded of what it feels like to slow down a bit.
I know it sounds counterintuitive. Summer feels fast. Open. Loud. It can be. But my self-imposed 40 day challenge of receiving a few years ago made me lean into this archetype a bit more and started to show me that these tools are safe ways to explore how I want to love myself more.
This Summer is encouraging me to simply exist. It’s harder than I thought. Ha! There’s an intention I’ve been coming back to in my yoga practice this Summer that I’d love to share with you: My existence is my radiance. And lovely, yours is too.
As always, we end this episode with a message from The Universe. Who really wants you out and about this Summer. Wait, hold up. Motomami?! Is that you? I hope this episode inspires you to have a main character Summer. You deserve it.
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Whether you’re just starting your self-love journey or you’re in the middle of it, you’re not late or behind. The intent for this place was always to make you feel less alone.
If you’re in the middle of a new life chapter, know that you’re not doing anything wrong or choosing a wrong path. The path you choose will always lead you to where you’re meant to be. Trust the process and give yourself the opportunity to bet on something new, you never know where it will lead you.
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- Episode 24 | Find A Lovely Book with Stephanie Evangelista Fukuda & Daigo Fukuda
- Episode 23 | Self-Love Check-in: Finding Balance In Your Self-Love Journey
- Episode 22 | How To Work With Your Inner Child In Your Self-Love Journey
- Episode 21 | How To Work With Summer In Your Self-Love Journey
- Episode 20 | Self-Love Check-in: Loving Yourself in Transition
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