Dr. Amanda Hanson’s 3 Steps to Activate Self Love this Valentine’s Day

Self-love is about being good to yourself, learning to be comfortable in your own skin, to honor, appreciate and accept all of yourself. Why is this path so confusing for so many? Clinical psychologist, coach, and midlife muse Dr. Amanda Hanson has been studying this phenomenon for the past three decades while navigating her own midlife revolution – she knows a thing or two.

“This Valentine’s Day, let us celebrate women, claim our power, and ready ourselves to fall in love with yourself and your life,’ says Dr. Hanson. For the past 20 years, she has witnessed women who believe if they remove the wrinkles, slip on a pair of designer shoes or follow the latest trends, shame, unworthiness, and low self-esteem will disappear. “External validation has taught us if it looks good on the outside, everything must be good on the inside – this is the furthest thing from the truth,” adds Dr. Hanson.

While Dr. Amanda realizes self-esteem, self-love, and self-worth are vital, she firmly believes until you teach women to remove the patriarchal mask that implies women over 40 are disposable, replaceable, and undesirable – self-love is not attainable. She says, “You cannot love another until you have learned to love yourself unconditionally.” Dr. Amanda recommends these three steps to activate self-love; no shopping, botoxing, or dieting required:

• Let go of the midlife malaise we were taught to believe and instead see it as a time of midlife marvelousness.
• Let go of the patriarchy’s sabotaging rules and write your way forward filled with revolution and wild-aliveness.
• Let go of the crisis consciousness around midlife and instead learn to love yourself – wrinkles, rolls, and all.

This Valentines Day, start your day with Morning Remembrance Rituals, a bundle of love note reminders to reconnect with your truth and to help you tap into your power – it is an email away. Or, if you want to go big, join Dr. Amanda in Costa Rica on a journey into the wilds of your feminine soul and discover the magic of vibrant and radiant self-love. Where nature cradles the soul, you will be enveloped by the opalescent wildlands of Costa Rica to the sublime surroundings of Hacienda AltaGracia, named by Condé Nast as one of the Top 50 resorts in the world.

Dr. Amanda Hanson is a psychologist and paradigm shifter who specializes in empowering women in midlife to dust off their dreams and get turned on about life again. She teaches a revolutionary act of loving yourself, knowing your worth, and remembering the untamed joy that is your birthright.