The believe that self-love is selfish and wrong blocks the flow of self-love. I think one reason why people hold onto this believe is because they’re not aware that there are two kinds of self-love. There is ego-based self-love which is a …

Here you will find a
nurturing place
to visit when you need a reminder
to unconditionally love yourself.
The believe that self-love is selfish and wrong blocks the flow of self-love. I think one reason why people hold onto this believe is because they’re not aware that there are two kinds of self-love. There is ego-based self-love which is a …
Speaking to ourselves in a nurturing way can be a challenge if we rarely heard nurturing words in the early formative years of our lives. In fact, if we were highly criticized or neglected, we probably learned to criticize and neglect ourselves …
How do we treat ourselves? What does that even mean? To help answer that question, let’s think about how we treat other people. How do we treat our favorite people? How do we treat strangers? How do we treat the people we like verses the people …
“Inspiration to paint my art comes from the desire to look at life differently. When I am faced with a problem, I search my spiritual studies and my collected wisdom for advice. Once I realize the advice that I need to take, I think of the symbolism to convey that message and that is what I paint.”
I'm Rita Loyd. The inspiration to paint healing art came to me in 1996 as a way to cope with chronic fatigue syndrome.
When I first began to paint nurturing art, I didn’t know that my art was going to be about self-love.
I now feel that I know the “recipe” for unconditional self-love and when I apply that recipe to my life I am able to shift from a place of negativity and defeat to a place of healing and empowerment.