{"id":971,"date":"2019-02-05T23:19:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T04:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/?p=971"},"modified":"2022-07-10T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T23:53:56","slug":"self-love-on-valentines-day-by-heather-mcallister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/2019\/02\/05\/self-love-on-valentines-day-by-heather-mcallister\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Love on Valentine\u2019s Day by Heather McAllister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Valentine\u2019s day is supposed to be a day filled with celebrating love, right? We have been conditioned by media to think that this holiday will involve flowers, chocolates, and celebrating love in our intimate relationships. Then, when these expectations are not met, we can be left with a feeling of disappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why not take some time this Valentine\u2019s Day to focus on self-love? Working on loving yourself can be difficult, especially during Valentine\u2019s Day when it is easy to focus on what we are \u201cmissing\u201d in our lives. Instead, we can celebrate and invest in our relationship with ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are many different ways to practice self-love, but here are a few ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are some simple ideas for self-care:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are just a few ways to practice self-love, and hopefully this gives you ways to celebrate yourself this Valentine\u2019s Day \u2013 and every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valentine\u2019s day is supposed to be a day filled with celebrating love, right? We have been conditioned by media to think that this holiday will involve flowers, chocolates, and celebrating love in our intimate relationships. Then, when these expectations are not met, we can be left with a feeling of disappointment. Why not take some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellnessblog"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ced.ncsu.edu\/ccerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}