This Valentine’s Day it’s time to stop writing love letters to yourself and read the one from Jesus

On a day dedicated to “love” it’s comforting to know that even if you don’t love yourself, God still loves you.

A therapy practice based in Bristol is launching a series of self-love journaling/meditation sessions around Valentine’s Day to support single people and those wanting to promote self-love in their relationships. Epiphany Therapy will offer self-love workshops both online and in-person, run by Nika Nazarova-Evans, a certified clinical hypnotherapist, committed to combatting dissatisfaction in life through self-love. These self-love workshops have been created to inspire people to discover love within themselves before they seek it in the external world.

In theory, I am wholeheartedly in support of this practice. In a society geared towards couples and couples with children, its hard being single and especially in teh run up to Valentine’s Day. What’s tough swallow though, is this idea that we can somehow replicate that love (if desired) from another person by digging deep to provide that love for ourselves. Now don’t get me wrong, I generally have a healthy sense of self-worth and value, but to be honest, it comes in ebbs and flows and telling people that they’re just not loving themselves enough is just a tiny bit annoying.