Learning to love yourself sounds simple, yet for many people it feels surprisingly difficult. We’re often taught how to meet expectations, care for others, and push through discomfort, but not how to respond to our own struggles with kindness. Self-love isn’t about ego or perfection; it’s about how we speak to ourselves in moments of failure, uncertainty, or emotional pain. It’s shaped by early relationships, cultural messages, and habits we may not even realize we carry.

Energy healing has often been met with skepticism by mainstream science, frequently dismissed as a placebo or anecdotal. Yet, across cultures, many people report meaningful benefits from alternative healing practices, such as Reiki, therapeutic touch, and other forms of energy-based healing. While some of these effects may involve a placebo-like mechanism, this explanation alone does not fully account for some early findings, such as reports on long-distance healing or initial experiments performed on cells, plants, and animals, which are not influenced by belief or expectation.

We all know how it goes. On December 31^st we are pumped, excited to start fresh in the new year. New goals, bold resolutions, or in some cases, a sense of defeat because we failed to achieve all the ambitious goals that we had set for ourselves in the past. But what if there was a new way to set yourself up for success, without making a commitment that you know wouldn’t last more than a few weeks? What if, instead of just focusing on outcomes, you also focus on how you want to feel?