Christine Arylo - Madly in Love with ME: The Daring Adventure of Becoming Your Own Best Friend

Loving ourselves is one of the most challenging and essential elements of healing, growth, and transformation. Madly in Love with ME is a passionate call for each of us to make peace with who we are and love ourselves unconditionally. As a man, father, and husband, I can think of nothing more important to do for ourselves, our partners, and our children.

Mike Robbins, author of Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken

The greatest relationship we have is with ourselves. Christine Arylo brilliantly shares a pathway for women to fall in love with the essence of who they are. This book is a great gift to all women and their daughters and dares us to love with all our hearts.

Kristine Carlson, New York Times bestselling author of Dont Sweat the Small Stuff for Women and Dont Sweat the Small Stuff for Moms

For any woman who wants to love herself, not just in theory but in everyday life, Christine Arylo has written the go-to guide on self-love. Christine is a brilliant teacher and catalyst who leaves readers feeling connected and joyful. Fresh, smart, and fun, Madly in Love with ME belongs on every womans nightstand.

Amy Ahlers, author of Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves

Self-love served up on a sparkly silver platter? Sign me up for a heaping helping! While self-love gets a bum rap by those who mistakenly think its selfish or narcissistic to love yourself, in Madly in Love with ME, Christine Arylo reframes self-love as a spiritual practice aimed at increasing your awareness of the divine spark that lies within us all. By learning to love and accept the true nature of who you are, radical transformation and true healing naturally follows.

Lissa Rankin, MD, founder of www.OwningPink.com and author of Mind Over Medicine

Every woman wants to fall in love with herself and then share that love with the world. Revel in this book and you will. Much more than a self-help book, Madly in Love with ME is an illuminated self-love guidebook that shows you exactly how to love yourself well and live your happiest life no matter what.

SARK, artist and author of Glad No Matter What

Madly in Love with ME is like a magic elixir just the potion we need to recapture that powerful, transformational force of loving ourselves fully and fiercely. Christine reminds us that loving ourselves is not just a crucial individual act for the quality of our own lives but a radical act of social change for women and girls everywhere. This is a practical, fun, and radiantly clear handbook to meet the love of your life you!

Meggan Watterson, author of Reveal: A Sacred Manual for Getting Spiritually Naked

The world is in desperate need of more love, and the fastest path to doing your part is to read this book and begin to love yourself deeply and joyfully. The only selfish thing about self-love is withholding it from yourself and everyone else!

Arielle Ford, author of Wabi Sabi Love

Madly in Love with ME is a manual for your soul. Christine Arylo teaches the essential practice of self-love in a way that is deeply healing, profoundly transformational, absolutely brilliant, and fun! This book will free you from beliefs and patterns that may be sabotaging your life and crack your heart open to infinite, unconditional love.

Christine Hassler, author of 20 Something, 20 Everything

Christine Arylo is an inspirational guide for anyone on the journey to selflove. Through her personal growth and experience, she has crafted a book for you to release all that blocks you from true freedom and peace. Allow Christine to be your teacher on your miraculous journey inward.

Gabrielle Bernstein, author of May Cause Miracles

Copyright 2012 by Christine Arylo

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

The material in this book is intended for education. No expressed or implied guarantee as to the effects of the use of the recommendations can be given nor liability taken. The authors experiences used as examples throughout this book are true, although in some cases identifying details such as name and location have been changed to protect the privacy of others.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Arylo, Christine, date.

Madly in love with me : the daring adventure of becoming your own best friend / Christine Arylo.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-60868-065-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Self-esteem. 2. Self-acceptance. I. Title.

BF697.5.S46A79 2012

158.1dc23

2012031886

First printing, November 2012

ISBN 978-1-60868-065-8

Printed in the USA on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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To Lucy McIntyre Shapiro and Jane Roberts Wagnermy two goddess-daughtersand their mother, Annemy soul sisterwhose love and presence in my life made it possible for me to devote my life to sharing the message and teachings of self-love with the world

Part 2. GROW the LOVE!
The Self-Love Tree and the Ten Branches of Self-Love

CHAPTER 7. Self-Compassion & Self-Forgiveness

Part 3. AMPLIFY the LOVE!
Secrets to Cultivating a Long-Lasting, Loving Relationship with Yourself

CHAPTER 14. Make a Self-Love Promise:
Stay Committed to Choosing Love for Yourself

CHAPTER 15. Engage in a Radical Act of Self-Love:
Practice Self-Love for Forty Days Straight

CHAPTER 16. Be a Love Ambassador:
Use Your Love Power to Generate Love for Yourself and Others

W elcome to a world of love! Come on in, take a seat, and put your love glasses on! Rose-colored, heart-shaped, or studded with diamonds doesnt matter. In the land of self-love, we know two things for sure: no one but you is wearing these particular glasses (they are uniquely yours), and what you are about to see isnt a fairy tale or a science fiction tale. Its what becomes possible when you dare to choose self-love.

Imagine, if you will, a world in which every girl born on this planet is born in love with, and stays in love with, herself. A world in which every girl, throughout the entire span of her life, never feels disconnected from the thread of love that makes her feel safe, loved, cared for, and special. Instead of learning to measure (and therefore judge) herself by the external images and standards that bombard her daily with the subconscious message You are not enough, each girl grows up believing that, regardless of her accomplishments, body shape, love-life status, or material possessions, she is