Because love isn't a vibe. It's a verb.
Let's skip the self-help platitudes and get to what actually works when your nervous system's fried and your soul's trying to remember what it came here for.
Here are seven ways to practice love—not the Instagram kind, the real kind. The kind that starts with you and ripples out from there.
1. Say no like you mean yes to yourself.
Every no to what drains you is a yes to what restores you. Let it be holy.
2. Choose the kindest available truth.
Don't fake it. Don't burn it down. Just tell the truth as gently as you can stand to.
3. Put your hand on your heart before you open your mouth.
Regulate first. Then relate. It saves lives. Mostly yours.
4. Give someone the benefit of the doubt—and give yourself the boundary.
Compassion doesn't mean access. You can love them and still leave the room.
5. Let a task be enough.
Fold the laundry. Send the email. Make the soup. Love isn't always big—it's done.
6. Don't spiritual-bypass your rage.
Honor the fire. Channel it. Love without truth is just codependence in a prettier outfit.
7. Put your damn phone down and look at the sky.
Let the sun or stars remind you:
You're alive. You're here. You're already enough.
Practicing love isn't fancy.
It's daily.
It's in the moment you choose to stay—with yourself—instead of abandoning what's real.
So start where you are.
Don't wait for the mood.
Begin with love.
You first.
