Corrina RawlinsonFounder of She's Honeslty Mental

Baby Steps to Self-Love | Simple Affirmations for Healing Women’s Mental Health

1 Oct 2025

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Excerpt from a YouTube video where the speaker (Corrina Rawlinson) describes using simple self-love affirmations and taking ‘baby steps’ toward adopting them. She recounts a powerful affirmation — "I truly love myself as I am, as I was, and as I always will be" — and offers practical advice: use small prompts (sticky notes), accept that affirmations may initially feel untrue or uncomfortable, and repeatedly expose yourself to them to gradually internalize them.

It's something like, I truly love myself as I am, as I was, and as I always will be. And that was really powerful for me because I was like, huh, I do love myself, and it's really big. So, yeah. When those affirmations and stuff like that make you feel, like, gross, or there's no way that that could be true about me. Just, like, baby steps, babe. Like, you walk around my house, and I've got, like, little sticky notes of, like, you can. And you can choose those things, and they might not feel true or doable in the time, but the more I see them, the more I'm like, oh, actually, yeah.