Welcome to the home page of the LOVE AFFAIR WITH THY SELF: THE MOVEMENT...
I'm Christina Marie,
I'm happy and grateful you landed on this page!
What does it mean to have a Love Affair with Thy Self? In a nutshell: to care for ourselves in such a way our giving to others (or anything we are committed to) receives the nourishment it needs because we are nourished.
If I may explain in more detail:
LOVE AFFAIR DEFINED: a feeling of great interest in and enthusiasm for something; a lively enthusiasm
LOVER: one who is fond of or devoted to something
LOVE AFFAIR WITH THYSELF: THE MOVEMENT
Love Affairs can be experienced as wildly intense or intensely powerful. They are romantic, nurturing and based on deep layers of compassion and empathy. Love is the driving force.
We get to decide how high we want to fly.
The Love Affair with Thy Self movement will be a collection of resources, tips, stories from people all over the world. From those who have learned how to have a Love Affair with Thy Self. Divided into the three pillars of Body, Mind and Spirit. Take what you want and leave the rest.
This is an invitation to become a part of the Movement.
Even though this page is designed with women in mind, the value of being self-loving.
"Inhaling all the love you have into your own body, mind and spirit. Exhaling anything your body, mind and spirit no longer needs."
~ Christina Marie
On this page, I'm going to introduce you to the Woman's Guide Journal, then share practices anyone can do regardless of who anyone is or how they came to be. After that I'm going to introduce you to the Guide For Those Who Love Us. This allows everyone to have a love affair with their self while also holding one another through.
I'm happy and grateful you landed on this page!
What does it mean to have a Love Affair with Thy Self? In a nutshell: to care for ourselves in such a way our giving to others (or anything we are committed to) receives the nourishment it needs because we are nourished.
If I may explain in more detail:
LOVE AFFAIR DEFINED: a feeling of great interest in and enthusiasm for something; a lively enthusiasm
LOVER: one who is fond of or devoted to something
LOVE AFFAIR WITH THYSELF: THE MOVEMENT
Love Affairs can be experienced as wildly intense or intensely powerful. They are romantic, nurturing and based on deep layers of compassion and empathy. Love is the driving force.
We get to decide how high we want to fly.
The Love Affair with Thy Self movement will be a collection of resources, tips, stories from people all over the world. From those who have learned how to have a Love Affair with Thy Self. Divided into the three pillars of Body, Mind and Spirit. Take what you want and leave the rest.
This is an invitation to become a part of the Movement.
Even though this page is designed with women in mind, the value of being self-loving.
"Inhaling all the love you have into your own body, mind and spirit. Exhaling anything your body, mind and spirit no longer needs."
~ Christina Marie
On this page, I'm going to introduce you to the Woman's Guide Journal, then share practices anyone can do regardless of who anyone is or how they came to be. After that I'm going to introduce you to the Guide For Those Who Love Us. This allows everyone to have a love affair with their self while also holding one another through.
A Woman’s Guide To Understanding Your Own Natural Rhythm journal is an invitation and an opportunity to remain deeply and intimately connected to your own natural rhythm through a simplistic morning journal process (with self-loving morning rituals)
Each journal offers women four consecutive months to be able to integrate and connect to who she is now.
It’s primary purpose is to keep women grounded within their Birth Right to be Self Loving aka Your Love Affair with Thy Self.
It’s a place to continue to shine your own light on yourself and your goals, hopes and dreams. Often for women, the people they love are deeply embedded in their goals, hopes and dreams. To love more, to be more gentle, more patient and to give without being depleted.
Each journal offers women four consecutive months to be able to integrate and connect to who she is now.
It’s primary purpose is to keep women grounded within their Birth Right to be Self Loving aka Your Love Affair with Thy Self.
It’s a place to continue to shine your own light on yourself and your goals, hopes and dreams. Often for women, the people they love are deeply embedded in their goals, hopes and dreams. To love more, to be more gentle, more patient and to give without being depleted.
WOMAN'S GUIDE: SPOTIFY PLAY LISTS
We have found a lot of health and well-being benefits through working within the journal and ourselves by finding music that moves things around for us. The list of Playlists continue to "Study/focus" and "Women's sensuality" "Gentle Rest" yet for the purposes of keeping the connection to the four phases within the journal, you can click the image and feel into any song that might resonate with you. If you do not find one but have music to share, please reach out, we will be sure to add it!
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Cleansing phase "Modern," and "Tribal" because some things require a little more depth while other cleansing doesn't and we never know when or what will be needed. The Tribal cleansing playlist has some enhanced music we women did not select. To be aware...we are still crafting
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THE MOST IMPORTANT DAILY PRACTICE WITHIN THE JOURNAL
One word mantra
body
mind
heart
THE BODY MIND HEART ONE WORD MANTRA DAILY PRACTICE DOWNLOADS BELOW-Easy access, download file and print out whenever you wish to become more grounded inside of yourself.
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And it also might require an:
INTRO TO ARUYVEDA
LIVING IN ALIGNMENT WITH YOUR OWN UNIQUE NATURAL RHYTHMS
Aruyveda is a wonderful way to begin to return to your own intuitive-instinctual nature. We promote this laws of nature science because it has a universal appeal, it aligns and brings together west/east medicinal approaches. It's ethical, responsible and it is always recommended for anyone who may have specific medical concerns, they speak to their doctor. It has a do no harm approach. We look for these elements before recommending anything to anyone.
| intro_to_aruyveda.pdf |
If reading isn't your learning style, you may click the link below to watch videos
A GUIDE FOR THOSE WHO LOVE US
This guide offers parents the opportunity to respect their growing daughter’s development when her hormones begin to activate and teach siblings as well. There are plenty of pages for the girls to journal on their own with additional blank pages for creating art work, images to keep the vision of their hopes, goals and dreams alive.
For Lovers, this guide offers both people access to the growth opportunity their connection has to offer them.
Each working diligently on their own Love Affair with Themselves rather than using one another as weapons against each other. The guides have the power to generate more connection and empathy where they can move one another toward their best selves feeling empowered rather than consistently/unconsciously dis-empowering one another.
Mending fences while building bridges in reverent time.
Both guides are best served with a consult with Christina to be able to get people started.
This guide offers parents the opportunity to respect their growing daughter’s development when her hormones begin to activate and teach siblings as well. There are plenty of pages for the girls to journal on their own with additional blank pages for creating art work, images to keep the vision of their hopes, goals and dreams alive.
For Lovers, this guide offers both people access to the growth opportunity their connection has to offer them.
Each working diligently on their own Love Affair with Themselves rather than using one another as weapons against each other. The guides have the power to generate more connection and empathy where they can move one another toward their best selves feeling empowered rather than consistently/unconsciously dis-empowering one another.
Mending fences while building bridges in reverent time.
Both guides are best served with a consult with Christina to be able to get people started.
The Natural Rhythms Women Blog is a combination of my musings, experience as a woman currently moving through that per-meno-post menopausal journal tied in with other opportunities to continue to expand life in phases and stages. It's meant to be a living daily journal that offers any woman something of value for herself.
The invitation is to take what you want, what works and what is going to cause you to feel good in your own body, mind and your own heart. While also recognizing, if something isn't for you, that's more than okay! After all I can't know what your world is, looks like or what is in it without being deeply and intimately connected to you and your Natural Rhythms!
"The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place."
QUOTE FROM: Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Taking Care of Yourself Via Ritual
“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Some of Our Self Love Ritual Helpers and More....
Zazzle is a company that allows you to craft and create your own messages. We have three Love Affair with Thy Self Candles to chose from but ultimately the idea is to capture an intention that works for you. Some of our people in the movement decide to make their own candle with the exact concise message to themselves that resonates with what they know they need.
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Sustainable love by using totes to do our part in sustainable living
Expanded Self, Expanded Family, Expanded Humanity: All Connect and Intersect as "one" |
Below is Expanded Consciousness two other branches. The belief is, this Love Affair with Thyself Branch helps in assisting, strengthen and growing these other two branches.
Expanded Family and Expanded Humanity. Therefore, the invitation is expansive!
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