Now that the Autumn season is in full swing… 
Be inspired by spending time within all of autumn’s glory, the vibrant colors of the leaves changing, the cooler crisp air, and more that Mother Nature gives us this season.
Take this time to use self-care, self-love, and self-discovery within your journey with a few personal transformational changes, renewal, and toward a happier, more peaceful life with less stress, and live within each moment. When you learn Self-Love in your life, you’ll leave behind your “Shining Bright Light Of Kindness” and your Value for others in this world…
I want to share encouragement from one of my non-fiction books as it always touches my heart when I read it and says some of what YOUR VALUE and WORTH of your legacy for the world through self-love means.
~Author Elizabeth Upton
“Loving Yourself: The Gift of Power and Freedom”
The greatest challenge of your life is to love your whole self, body, mind, emotions, soul, and spirit.
Throughout our culture, family life, social life, and the media, in economics, politics, religion, and education, women are taught to believe that they are inferior and undeserving. We perceive that something is wrong with being a woman.
These attitudes are perpetuated on many levels, both consciously and subconsciously. They are manifested through domestic and cultural violence, creating fear and a sense of worthlessness. Through spoken and unspoken attitudes, cultural practices, and unequal treatment, we believe we are powerless to make decisions that affect our lives or the lives of others. Women are expected to give unconditional service through caregiving for their husbands, children, parents, and often to their husbands’ family…
Women equally deserve what they are expected to give to men throughout the world. Understanding the dangers of these inordinate expectations empowers you to reclaim your self-esteem and VALUE.
Your self-esteem will give you the ability to say NO to anyone or any situation that attempts to destroy your life or your sense of well-being.
Loving yourself is the ability to see yourself as a whole and unique with natural feminine beauty. It is appreciating your inner beauty and the expressions of your emotional self in all of its forms. Feeling your inner beauty is having reverence for your life as it unfolds from moment to moment. It is love and care for your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual self, no matter what happens in your life.
Reverence and love for yourself are essential to moving past negative attitudes while Loving yourself cannot be determined by what others think about you. Loving your whole self is being able to see yourself as complete and worthy. It is the ability to value all the experiences in your life as important and to understand that you are making a meaningful difference in your life. This difference is not what you do, but who you are and how you help others to. It will be your legacy…
It comes down to the core spirit that is YOU. People change from day to day just as you change. As people change, their values change. If you measure your value by other people’s values, you will never be constant in loving yourself. It takes persevering courage to put aside all of the musts and what-ifs and to remain steadfast in what you want to be and what you want to do for yourself and for no one else.
It takes daily doses of self-love to build this solid foundation in spite of changing social values and false expectations of how to look, act, and be. Loving yourself is being able to feel your inner beauty and to know that you are more than your personality, more than your body, and more than your humanity.
Do me a favor after you are finished reading this post, ladies… Look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself,
Yes, I am lovable. Yes, I am a good person.
Yes, my life is special and valuable because it is MY LIFE.
You only have one life to live, a moment-to-moment adventure.
Embrace it with faith and good humor, and keep loving yourself!
Elizabeth Upton Award-Winning Author & Writer 
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