30 days of self-love: a self-serenade

We’re past the days of needing to wait for someone to come and profess how they feel about us in a big, big way. We can do it ourselves. We can love ourselves gigantically, ridiculously, wildly.

Today, my self-love practice only needed a “cheesy love song” and a bathroom mirror to touch something very real and deep inside. Now, I do recognize that many love songs are very codependent. However, when I turned the below song into a song from me, to me, and really felt the words, as I sang them, soulfully and heartfully, for me, staring at myself in the mirror, I cried. I felt it. I felt the love in my chest, squeezed tight.

I invite you to hit play below and sing the words to yourself. See how you might shift.

“For all those times you stood by me
For all the truth that you made me see
For all the joy you brought to my life
For all the wrong that you made right

For every dream you made come true
For all the love I found in you, I’ll be forever thankful, MELISSA
You’re the one who held me up, never let me fall
You’re the one who saw me through, through it all

You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn’t speak
You were my eyes when I couldn’t see
You saw the best there was in me

Lifted me up when I couldn’t reach
You gave me faith, ’cause you believed
I’m everything I am because you loved me

You gave me wings and made me fly
You touched my hand, I could touch the sky
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me
You said no star was out of reach

You stood by me and I stood tall
I had your love, I had it all
I’m grateful for each day you gave me

Maybe I don’t know that much
But I know this much is true
I was blessed because I was loved by you

You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn’t speak
You were my eyes when I couldn’t see
You saw the best there was in me

Lifted me up when I couldn’t reach
You gave me faith, ’cause you believed
I’m everything I am because you loved me

You were always there for me
The tender wind that carried me
A light in the dark, shining your love into my life

You’ve been my inspiration
Through the lies, you were the truth
My world is a better place because of you

You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn’t speak
You were my eyes when I couldn’t see
You saw the best there was in me

Lifted me up when I couldn’t reach
You gave me faith, ’cause you believed
I’m everything I am because you loved me

You were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I couldn’t speak
You were my eyes when I couldn’t see
You saw the best there was in me

Lifted me up when I couldn’t reach
You gave me faith, ’cause you believed
I’m everything I am because you loved me
I’m everything I am because you loved me

I love you.” -Céline Dion

What’s your love song? Try it and I’m telling you, you might not be able to stop. I went straight on to Bette Midler’s “Wings Beneath My Wings.” It’s a beautiful feeling to sing a love song to yourself. What a gift.