What does self love mean to you?

It is a lifelong quest and its a hard practice.

Recently, I was meeting with my virtual assistant and I asked her what self love means to her.

And, she introduced me to this practice that brought tears to my eyes.

This is how she answered my question.

"When I was 18 or 19, I read a book that said the purpose of life was to learn how to love yourself. So, for years, I 'tried' to love myself. In a yoga class one time, the teacher invited us to think of something we love, cultivate that love and give it to ourselves.

Later another mentor, Katie Hendricks, taught the practice of love drops.

This is the practice:

Think of someone or something that you love without a doubt about it, with no strings attached, no baggage. Fill yourself up with that love and then drop it on yourself. Or, better yet, drop it on something you hate about yourself."

At age 7, I really wanted a spiritual practice. And, I didn't even know what that meant.

I always felt there was something else, something more, something bigger than me out there.

And at age 18, I also started reading books... buddhism and taking yoga classes as well as a meditation class. It was taught free at university at CSU.

Looking back on it, it was Buddhist. It wasn't called that... But it was focusing on your breath. Now I practice a Buddhist meditation.

My practices of self love are:

meditation and yoga
being outside
taking care of my skin
getting facials and massages
spending time with people I love and my animals
and being aware of the negative self talk

I'll be incorporating the love drop into my practice now.

Feel free to share your self love practices with me. I always love to hear what you have to say.

Please reach out and book an appointment.

As always,

Live in Beauty,

Sasha

PS Just for fun... the rest of the month of February I will be making a Chocolate Cherry facial mask! It will have dark cocoa powder which has high levels of anti-oxidants that help promote cell repair. The cherry comes from cherry kernel oil which also has anti-oxidants AND has oleic acid which improves dry skin. A couple of other ingredients I will add are Shea butter and hyaluronic acid.

What do you do during a pandemic?

I think the term is "pivot."

My pivot is to go down the path of small batch hand made skin care.

I have started this journey with a shea butter, honey, and turmeric multi-purpose mask.

My goal was to make a mask that could be used not only on the face, but on the hands as well. I don’t know if your hands are dry and cracked like mine from the dry Colorado climate… AND the heavy use of hand sanitizer…

One night I was sitting on the couch with my thumb throbbing from the crack in it, and I kept thinking, “There has got to be something I can do to help heal this.”

And, then the lightbulb went on! “I am going to make a mask that can be used on my hands, but also used on my face. ”

So I did! I wanted to put honey in it because it has amazing anti-bacterial and wound healing properties.

And, I have been using it every night since and it is helping the skin on my hands heal!

I am also using this mask in the treatment room for a limited time. You can purchase it from me for $20.

But, please come in and experience it in your facial treatment.

This is my first offering. I plan to formulate a new mask every month!

With 5% of sales of facials and masks from Feb 8 to Mar 8th, I am going to adopt some bees. My goal is to adopt a BEEHIVE. I will be doing this through the https://karmahoneyproject.com/