LOVE YOURSELF

Do you love yourself?
In a world that inundates us with all the ways we fall short - unless we just...
buy this one serum, own this one bag, visit this one place... do you know how to love yourself?

My birthday is in September.

Ever since I turned 28, I have a full blown existential crisis (🤣) around the week before my birthday every year.
Did I do enough? Did I grow enough? Did I help enough?

Don't get me wrong - I don't think this is bad.
I think we all love BTS on some level because we've witnessed and admired their relentless pursuit of growth over the years as artists and individuals, as brothers and colleagues, as unique experts as well as teammates.

But there's an important difference in the journey depending on your motivation for wanting to change yourself [even for the better]

When you love yourself and pursue growth from a place of joy and fullness, you recognize yourself accurately (strengths and weaknesses) and are investing the time, attention, and resources to cultivate your best parts, tend to the rough bits, and prune the worst parts - for the sake of your own flourishing. It's honest and good and it begets more honesty and more good. The beginning of confidence is accurate self-awareness.

VERSUS

When you maybe doubt/hate/don't know yourself and pursue change from a place of uncertainty, you might chase growth in order to validate your worth, to 'earn' your place, or to qualify for your self-love *once you hit some kind of milestone* - and even the best of us flip flop between these two parallel paths all the time.

No matter where you are, I'd like to invite you to spend some time, each day in September, taking time to discover/re-discover the ways that you are [already] beautiful, inside and out, and log it in a meaningful way.

30-DAY CHALLENGE

WHO: ARMY & friends
WHAT: You will commit to capturing a beautiful aspect of yourself every day for the month of September.
WHERE: Wherever you are!
WHEN: Starts September 1
HOW:

FIRST, Take a look at the ⚠️DISCLAIMER below
SECOND, please follow me on Instagram
THIRD, use the 30-day guide below to create your own meaningful log of self-discovery.
- You are welcome to follow along privately (journal, scrapbook, create your own digital album, etc.)
- You are welcome to follow along with the group here.

LOVE YOURSELF

30-DAY CHALLENGE

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SELF-DISCOVERY: CHALLENGE PROMPTS

30 Prompts for 30 Days

These are in no particular order other than Day 1 & Day 30.

Feel free to add/tweak/change prompts as you see fit.

Cross them out as you go if it feels good to do that.

DAY ONE - DO THIS FOR DAY 1
Take a selfie (for private keeping) however you’d like
No filter? No makeup? No pose? - Great!
All the makeup? False eyelashes? Posed? - Also great!

You are logging the DAY 1 photo of a journey of self-discovery - a commitment to excavate your life and mind to find the most beautiful parts of you and your story.
Take a photo of something you created with your own hands
Your scrambled egg breakfast? A crocheted creation? A drawing?

Creating something taps into a part of us that is most god-like in nature~

Take a photo of a detail you love about your appearance today
Eyeliner wing just right? Leg mole looking cute? Favorite earrings? Cute nails? All fair game.

We’ve gotten great at appreciating the guys for their every detail. This mole, that wrinkled nose picture, the window wiper laugh… do you know what makes you precious? Think til you find one. Snap a photo.

Take a photo of a place where you go to feel like yourself
A nook in your home? Your office? The library? That one park bench where your legs dangle? The museum?

If you haven’t been there in a while - plan for it, make the time, do this challenge on another day - but get it done. It matters. It matters for the marathon that is life even if it feels like there couldn’t possibly be time. It’s probably more important than you know to be reminded of who you are - to keep going.
Share your smile in whatever way feels comfortable
However you interpret this is correct.
Take a picture of your shadow or silhouette

Remember that time THE WWH our KIM SEOK JIN’s silhouette looked like a duck? Be silly, be sexy, it won’t take long to do this one.
Capture the light on your face or body or on a surface if it looks pretty

Remember how happy it made j-hope to have that light beam star/heart shape projected onto his face for his JITB album art? Capturing little moments of whimsy when it finds you helps you grow more and more sensitive to all the beauty we have access to - it’s probably more than you knew
Take a photo of your favorite outfit or accessory that makes you feel confident - on you or separately

Taehyung’s mom sent that red jacket so he could hold his own - so he wouldn’t be intimidated by the Seoul boys… what’s your ‘red jacket?”
Take a picture of your favorite feature (eyes, hair, hands, etc.)

I know this is tricky for some. Some folks especially have a hard time loving anything about their physical appearance. Oh to have the confidence of Jin! But there likely was a time we didn’t know yet to feel ugly… With all the grace/encouragement/heart eyes you look unto our mooties online for those pic challenges, look at some of your old photos (but turn them upside down) it helps us see things we hadn’t notice before [about ourselves] if you look from different perspectives*

This is actually a trick for when you have to draw portraits/self-portraits (#artmajor)
Photograph your post-workout or post-movement glow

#LYFITNESSCHALLENGE GROUP - this one should be a little easier since I know the first part is happening! Right?? For others, any kind of glow! But if you have it in you - dance to a few BTS songs and then capture your glow~ We’re always a bit more inclined to smile if our dopamine is flowing from movement.
Take a photo of your reflection in something unexpected

Check out this epic photo of my mom that I took for her one day. You try! I will try too [for myself] - when you’re looking… you may find lots of other beautiful things along the way.
Capture yourself laughing or what made you laugh today

One of my favorite comedians and his wife plays this game ‘the tiniest smile’ where you try to make the SMALLEST possible smile/moving your mouth the littlest as possible. I guarantee you’ll burst out laughing - especially if you do it with someone else. Snap a pic!
Take a photo of yourself in your coziest state

For me - likely it’ll involve some kind of mug, looking like a human burrito, and some kind of fluffy thing (plushie, pet, my BT21 TATA slippers, something..)
Photograph a symbol of strength in your life
Can be a literal flex pose selfie~ Can be something you built. Interpret this however you’d like but we know you’re strong. Take a picture.
Capture a space you’ve made your own
It makes all the difference once you’ve put your final touches to a space. We all adore JK for finding so much joy in his mood lighting, for RM for basically turning his spaces into mini museums, etc. Be it your room, a cubicle, a shelf, a desk set-up - take a picture of how your influence changed a space.

Show a hobby or passion you’re proud of
I’ll let you interpret this however you’d like loll BT21 Collection? Watercolor paintings? Photocard binder? Everything is fair game.
Take a picture of something that represents resilience for you
It can be a selfie ;)
Photograph something you’re learning or working on
Screenshots count. Workspace photos, books, hobbies, whatever~
Share a picture of food that nourished you
We all love a good food photo

Take a photo of a moment of kindness you gave/received/witnessed
Witnessing kindness makes a difference. They say if you let a car squeeze in front of you in traffic, that driver is much more likely to extend that same courtesy unto someone else that needs to squeeze in - and so on… We’re so simple. We’re so complicated.
Photograph an object that represents hope for you
Try to take it beautifully. Do a quick search of ‘good composition layouts’ and see if you can really make this photo look like ‘hope’
Capture something you’d gift to someone you love
Doesn’t have to be expensive or fancy. Absolutely can be hilarious.
Take a picture of your favorite place to recharge
Knowing yourself includes knowing how to recharge well~ Choosing spaces wisely will contribute to your overall wellness for sure.
Photograph a favorite ARMY moment — something that lifts you up, makes you laugh, etc.
Screenshots count!
Capture your progress on a project, big or small
Home renovation? Homemade noodles? Life seems to be a series of projects we handle well or poorly loll but for sure capturing/sharing our ‘works in progress’ helps normalize that things take time.
Take a photo of something that represents your journey so far
So many of us appreciate BTS so deeply, not just because they killed one performance exceptionally well - but because through every circumstance (from asking for attention for a free performance to selling out stadiums) that they stuck with it. Here’s the thing - you did too! You’re still here. You stuck through it. Give yourself the credit. Take that photo.
Capture something that makes you laugh every time you see it
Screenshots count! Silly pet pics count! Everything counts - if it makes you laugh, it’ll make you laugh as you retrieve it or snap a photo of it for this challenge. That alone makes this prompt worth the effort.
Capture a moment of connection~
With yourself, someone else, or nature… connection is so important.
Take/share a picture of an item that is your favorite color
Try to take this photo as beautifully and creatively as you can
DAY 30 - DO THIS FOR DAY 30
Look at your DAY 1 photo.
Sit with it for a few minutes. Scroll through your photos taken the last 29 days.
Take a selfie.

Hopefully the selfie you’ve taken shows a picture of someone who has uncovered the creative, thoughtful, curious, silly, whimsical, love-filled, vulnerable, growing BEAUTIFUL person that you are. Cheers.

DISCLAIMERS

⚠️SELFIE DISCLAIMER: By participating in this challenge and posting photos or videos of yourself publicly (such as on Instagram or other platforms), please be aware that you are doing so at your own discretion. I am not responsible for how publicly shared content is used, shared, or received by others.

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As such, I reserve the right to remove any participant(s) that bring down the energy of the group at my discretion.
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LOVE YOURSELF

Do you love yourself?In a world that inundates us with all the ways we fall short - unless we just...buy this one serum, own this one bag, visit this one place... do you know how to love yourself?

30-DAY CHALLENGE

PRINTABLES & DOWNLOADS

SELF-DISCOVERY: CHALLENGE PROMPTS

DISCLAIMERS

Do you love yourself?
In a world that inundates us with all the ways we fall short - unless we just...
buy this one serum, own this one bag, visit this one place... do you know how to love yourself?