By understanding some of the internal shifts I took towards self love, why I think it's important for women to be fierce about it, and how it can help ground you in your purpose, values, needs, and boundaries, you can begin to build self-love skills in your own life.

Sometimes it does seem crazy these days to believe that love can last a lifetime. With the demands of modern life, all too often marriage can become about downtime and recovery, like a comfortable pillow, rather than a living connection that we feel inspired to nourish and feed.

But what I now realize is that sustaining love for a lifetime, if possible, does take a skill set; one I definitely didn’t have during marriage number one. Likely a lucky few inherit these skills for sustaining intimacy from their families, but for most of us, they need to be learned.