Tips on How to Celebrate and Love Yourself.

Over the weekend, after interviewing one of my podcast guests, I took a selfie because I was feeling pretty.

I grew up believing that I shouldn't get 'too big for your britches', and it's best to be a good girl, not speak up or be too loud.

It took me a while to get into selfie culture. It seemed like an odd thing to do at first. Why would I want to have pictures of myself?

However, now I look at it as a celebration. Of me.

If I feel pretty, I will take a selfie.

If I'm having a moment that I want to remember, I'll take a selfie as a way to document what I was feeling that day.

I grew up believing that girls just didn't reveal their bodies in public. Bikinis weren't part of my growing up.

Now I see women posting pictures of them showing their bodies and celebrating them.

You may or may not have realized it by now, but the only way to change an old, outdated culture is to change yourself first.

It means celebrating yourself. Whether you're 20 or 80.

And that means doing something that you really want to do, for yourself, without giving two fucks what others think.

If you're a baby boomer and want to wear a belly top, then wear a belly top.

If you're a gen x, and you want to take pictures of your body naked, then do that.

Celebrate yourself.

Love yourself.

At some point, you may discover, that the only rules you need to follow about how you show up for yourself, should be the rules you set for yourself.

And Warriors? You may or may not have realized by now that you are going to leave the planet soon. We all are. Even if it's 60 years from now, that's nothing in terms of time.

So celebrate yourself. Take the damn photos and buy the revealing swim suit.

'I wished I was more reserved and worried more about what other people thought' - said NO ONE on their deathbed.