Are you ready to finally prioritize yourself and cultivate more self-love? The first step to this is creating a routine, which allows you to have some structure and helps you develop habits that you will stick with.

Here are some of our best tips for creating a life-changing and empowering self-love routine.

Benefits of Self-Love in Your Life

It helps to first understand the benefits of having more self-love in your life and how it can positively impact you. You will discover a lot of benefits in just about every area of your love. You will be healthier and happier mentally and physically, as well as have healthier dynamics with the people in your life. You will have more self-care, more rest, and a much improved mindset. It will feel like you are more resilient and confident, and that your stress and anxiety is also improved. Just about everything in your life gets better when you love yourself.

Why You Need a Consistent Routine

Why do you need a self-love routine? Simply put, it helps you develop habits that eventually you won’t even have to think twice about. This is true for any new habits you are trying to incorporate into your life. When you put them into a consistent routine, you will eventually turn them into regular behaviors, but first you need a little structure.

Morning Rituals Full of Positivity

A great way to start your self-love routine is first thing in the morning right when you wake up. You can start with some positivity by using your affirmations or writing something you are grateful for in your journal. This is also a great time for a simple stretch routine, breathing exercises, or making yourself a healthy breakfast. These small habits in your routine all reinforce you loving yourself and wanting to take good care of your body and mind.

Choose Ways to Properly Nourish Your Body

The way you treat your body is also really important when it comes to practicing self-love. When you care for your health, you are telling yourself that you love your body so much, you want to nurture it and treat it with kindness and respect. This includes daily habits in your routine that will help you live a healthy lifestyle, such as getting enough sleep, drinking water, eating your fruits and veggies, and moving your body in a joyful way.

Include Self-Love For Your Mental and Emotional Health

Similarly, you want to nurture your mental and emotional health as well by including habits in your routine for self-love that will boost your emotional well-being. Try to include self-love activities that will not only help you be more compassionate with yourself and encourage self-care, but also nurture your mental and emotional health, such as getting good sleep, journaling, reading, creative activities, gratitude, and mindfulness. 

Have a Self-Reflection Practice in Your Routine

We often recommend self-reflection in the beginning of a self-journey because it helps you identify who you are so that you can learn to fully accept and love yourself. But it doesn’t stop there. Self-reflection can actually be valuable throughout your entire self-love journey, such as with journaling or mindfulness. You will understand your needs during this journey and as you create your routine, set goals, and set intentions for your self-love practices.

Be Consistent, But Leave Room For Adapting

The final important thing to keep in mind is that while you want a consistent routine, you also want balance and room for adapting it when changes need to be made. Nothing in life is finite, and things will always change throughout every stage of your life. Try to listen to your body and flow with changes as they occur. When you are being pulled to adjusting to your self-love routine, trust your intuition.