Love Yourself First This Valentine’s Day with Words of Encouragement

BU Today wants your messages of affirmation, self-care, and self-love

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Love Yourself First This Valentine’s Day with Words of Encouragement

BU Today wants your messages of affirmation, self-care, and self-love

January 20, 2023
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Valentine’s Day is typically a day for celebrating those you love. But sometimes it’s healthy and helpful to practice a little self-love first. We’re inviting members of the BU community—students, faculty, staff, alumni—to do something a little different this year: send yourself (past, present, or future) a message of encouragement and affirmation, some honest-to-goodness self-care. Tell yourself why you love you. 

We’ll include as many Valentine’s Day messages as possible in a feature to post around February 14. 

It’s easy: Simply fill out the form below and return it to us by Tuesday, February 7. Keep your message to between 50 and 150 words. If you’re a student or an alum, be sure to include your name, school, and grad year. If you’re a faculty or staff member, include your title.

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  1. Thank you so much for this opportunity to reflect on all that I am doing to succeed.

    You know, we go day to day just checking things off our list without stopping to look back and appreciate all our efforts. Then we compare ourselves to others who seem to have it together, and we feel like our efforts are not enough.

    Thanks to reflections like these, one is encouraged to breathe and give credit to all the effort already put in, the accomplishments reached. It generates appreciation which turns into positive energy to keep going.

    Thank you!

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    1. Thank YOU for your reflection. We often forget that life is a gift- not a quest, not a contest to be won, not a series of boxes to be checked off, but a journey that only we can travel because we are unique in all the world. Best of everything to you.

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