The Self Love Experiment

A short bite of conversation as we talk about our realisations in how we our spending our time, our life choices and our path in life, prompted by this time and space to think during the coronavirus lockdown. Have you had any profound realisations recently? We'd love to hear if you've had a similar experience! - John & Tanya
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An update from the Coronavirus lockdown. Now a few weeks in, we've both been furloughed from our jobs, so share how we've been feeling and things we've been doing to stay balanced in these strange times!

We take a break from our usual format to share our journeys during the first few weeks of lockdown in the UK due to the coronavirus outbreak - including our highs, lows and things we are doing to keep ourselves balanced in these strange times!
Take care everyone,
- John & Tanya

We record 3 things we are grateful for everyday, and discuss the benefits! Tanya also shares a brilliant analogy about bricks loaded with so much advice for our day to day lives.
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We try out a few mood tracking apps and compare the different ways they try to help us, and whether they really work for us! We also chat about romantic comedies and the messages they teach us, the highs and lows of Love Island, as well as the impact of social media on our daily lives - as Tanya shares her experience of deleting those infamous apps!
- John & Tanya
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We try out creating Vision Boards and live with them to see how they influence us! Do they improve how we feel, or take us any closer to achieving our goals? We talk about the process of creating our boards, the different approaches we had, what worked well, and talk through the supposed benefits... we also have a little chat about something Tanya calls "BDE"!
- John and Tanya

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Ever been curious about self care techniques and what they can do for you? Us too.

A trend for prioritising self love has lead to an explosion of different techniques we’re told to do regularly to lead a happy and fulfilling life from journaling to vision boards to writing daily gratitudes.

Some of these techniques have benefits to mental health  and wellbeing proven through extensive research whereas others have less evidence. However without learning more about them or trying them all out, it’s easy to be cynical about whether they can actually help you. 

Do they really work? If so, in what way and how can we fit them into our lives? We’re not experts in self love so we want to document what the day to day lived experience of doing these techniques looks and feels like.

As we try them out, we invite you to listen to our journey as we discuss our experiences on our brand new podcast so you can listen and decide if you would benefit from any of them yourselves.

In this first ever episode, we explore  the definition of self love and our experience with the self care technique of journaling.