Hi my name is Astrid Gagliardi Reifer and I Fu*ken love myself…also it took a lot of huevos for me to post such a vulnerable photo of me, out there for people to decide for themselves what it means. But it serves my topic today about self love, this isn’t something that came easy to me, I had to work really hard to grow into a place where I discovered my purpose, what I was placed here to do and who I really am. After discovering that revelation about myself, I began to fall more and more in love with the person I was becoming, I began to feel less pressured to have to constantly defend or explain myself to people that didn’t matter, and really began to honor myself for who I am, just as I am. Self love doesn’t mean you are self absorbed, full of yourself or selfish, no, it means that you are tuning into your inner, most truest self.  It means that you give yourself the love that only you can give yourself so that you can be the best version of yourself and have more of that to share with those you love. It means not latching to others to make you happy, but going within to find that the key to your genuine happiness has always been inside you . Loving yourself means you stop saying yes when that voice inside of you says no, it means that you stop listening to the chatter that goes on outside of yourself and you begin to dial in to your inner callings. You stop paying attention to “them”…. and you reach higher and higher levels of self love through the lessons you learn along your journey on this earth. Today I talk all about mine in hopes to help you discover all the love that lives inside of you.