100 Ways To Show Yourself Love If You Hate Pink And Bubble Baths
Radical self love is for everyone, no matter your gender, your age, your race, or how much you like pink. Yes, I am pretty high on the femme scale — I consider hot pink lipstick an essential, and feel slightly guilty when I don’t wear heels — but that doesn’t mean you are. As such, the ways you choose to show love to yourself might be completely different.
Here, then, are 100 ways to practice radical self love, if the thought of taking a bubble bath makes you want to puke!
Drink a green juice Go for a hike
Stock up on your favourite author at a secondhand book shop
Buy a massage pillow, turn it on and zone out!
Go and sit on the beach
Sing along to your favourite song
Set three big goals to complete this year
Roll down a grassy hill
Climb a tree and stay up there for a while
Learn to make a perfect bloody mary
Go for a run
Play an instrument really loudly
Make yourself an insane milkshake
Go to a showing of your favourite movie by yourself
Participate in a parade
Try kundalini yoga
Watch birds
Ride your bicycle to a new neighbourhood
Give yourself three orgasms
Do cartwheels
Doodle something happy
Meditate
Call your mother
Do something nice for someone else
Count your blessings
Say no
Turn off your phone
Watch a comedy
Practice forgiveness
Take a nap
Go for a walk
Write a letter of thanks
Take a social media sabbatical
Read a book in the sun
Take your vitamins
Eat a piece of fruit
Try something new
Walk on the grass
Stretch
Write down all the compliments you receive
Do nothing
Celebrate your scars and stretch-marks
Drink a cup of tea
Buy a plant!
Go swimming
Fill your fridge with fresh fruits and vegetables
Spend time alone
Get a tattoo!
Foster an animal
Make some art
Hang out in a botanic garden
Seek a group with similar interests to you
Take flying lessons
Paint your front door your favourite colour
Start a blog
Take a kick-boxing class
Hang up some new art
Take trapeze lessons
Sell or donate your old clothes
Smile
Book a round-the-world plane ticket
Sign up for a class
Go through old journals and marvel at how much you’ve changed
Carry your camera all the time (I love my Sony NEX 5N)
Hang a hammock, then lie in it
Embroider your favourite rap lyrics
Organise your bookshelf by colour
Stick little dinosaurs all along the top of your headboard
Try aerial yoga
Print and frame your favourite photos
Buy a record player and listen to crackly vinyl
Wear a vadge badge
Drink more water
Hire a cool car and go on an adventure
Hang a pinata in your living room
Start writing a book
Make a mixtape of your favourite songs
Film a video of your day
Rent a kayak and paddle around
Put a gnome next to your bed
Be radically honest
Brush up on the languages you learned in school
Hang some really weird wallpaper
Watch interviews with your heroes
Stop keeping secrets
Lie in the grass and stare at the clouds
Stock up on your favourite pens
Start writing a bucket list (and ticking it off)
Make yourself a crazy good ice-cream sundae
Run through some sprinklers
Tell your best friends you love them
Design yourself personalised stationery for writing thank you notes
Photocopy your favourite pages from books, blow ’em up, and put them on your wall
Stop hanging out with negative people
Sweat
Try laughter yoga
Spend some time beside a pool
Cover yourself in temporary tattoos
Make a fort in your living room
Be your own kind of beautiful
Let me know if you end up trying any of these! I’d love to hear.
Love,
Illustration by Jaya Nicely.