This year, in true Project Love style, we are hijacking Valentine's Day and making it all about self-love. Instead of making this day of love all about romantic love and focusing your attention on others that you love or lust after, we want you to turn all that love right around and in on yourself, starting with the way that you speak to yourself.
Why? Because learning to speak to yourself like you would your best friend - with love and support - is one of the most powerful things you can do. It is a life changer and key to your happiness and success.
Just imagine what it would be like to spend a day with a voice in your head that was loving and supportive, that was always there for you, that had your back and would remind you that you were loved.
Wouldn’t that feel great?
Imagine all the things you would have the confidence to do. You would make yourself a top priority in life and fill that life with the things that made you happy. You would look after yourself well, follow your dreams and design a life for yourself that you truly loved. A life that would feel as good as it looked.
Now think about the voice that you tend to use on yourself day to day. Often we are our own harshest critics, with a voice in our head that is constantly pointing out what we have done wrong or how we should have done better.
A day of listening to that is exhausting, feels rubbish and has you playing small.
So this Valentine’s Day we are encouraging everyone to turn up the volume on their loving inner voice to hear what it has to say.
How? By writing a letter to you, from your wise older self.
It is a simple exercise that can be surprisingly powerful.
The idea is that you imagine your wise older 80 year old self is sending a message back to the woman you are today. She has the gift of hindsight and knows that everything works out well for you in the end and right now she wants to give you some encouragement, love and support at this point in your life.
You might at first think that you won’t be able to come up with anything, but people are usually surprised at how much this side of them believes in them and loves them.
We invite you to give it a go and share with us how you get on!
Here is what you do:
1. Treat yourself to some special letter writing paper (some lovely sets over at Paperchase)
2. Download 'The Project Love Guide to Writing Yourself a Letter from your Wise, Older Self'
3. Share your favourite line from the letter you wrote to yourself over on Twitter using #selfloveletter and @ProjectLove or why not take a photo of your letter and share it with us on Instagram using #selfloveletter and @loveprojectlove
We will be sharing your love letters during Valentine’s Week <3
Selina & Vicki x
PS for those in London, we will be at Paperchase (Tottenham Court Rd store) on Weds 8th Feb for an evening of self love and letter writing - tickets here - come and write your love letter with us!
