"Journaling, my therapist, and a slew of mind-expanding audiobooks are the three pillars that continue to guide me through my 'forevermore' self-love journey.
It was the self-love-to-self-confidence pipeline that led me back into the LA dating scene after a career-focused, celibate, spiritual sabbatical.
Among the summer lovers, I observed the same high pendulum swings from codependency to hyper-independence that I had worked so hard to rewire in myself. I found myself having an allergic reaction to those who always need someone to call them baby, and I also wish them theirself-love freedom. Choosing myself, loneliness and all, over glimmers of 'what if love,' is my self-love story."
Listen to @laurenruthward’s new single ‘Self Love’ - out now.