hello my sweet community! happy October. every time I sit down to write your monthly self love practice, I sort of take a moment to let everything sink in. we’ve been on a continous journey together here on The Fairy & The Moon, for September we were focusing on the art of becoming yourself. the idea was reconnecting with your true desires, your authenticity, your own identity. it was such a special month of permission. permission to change course, try new things, speak your truth, and believe in your own dreams. (p.s. our monthly practices are available for you always, you can go back to them at anytime when a topic is calling to you)
to me, something about October is deep. it calls to the deep. maybe its scorpio season, or the longer nights. and when I meditated on what I wanted to bring us through this month, I was instantly pulled to the topic of emotions. specifically, creating space and learning how to actually sit with our feelings— the good and the layered. when I was younger, I very much so hated my emotions. I wanted absolutely nothing to do with them and I wanted to be as far away from my feelings as possible. and that desire ran my life in many ways, I was always seeking escape, distraction, relief, and numbing. my emotions felt like a burden that I had no idea how to bare, and I was truly very afraid of ever letting a crack in, because if I let down my defenses— id have no idea how to weather the inevitable storm that I could feel building from deep within me. it lived somewhere uncharted, somewhere I did not want to go, but I knew it was there.
eventually, I embarked on a journey of courage, necessity, willingness, and curiosity. I came to a point where it was absolutely imperative that I began creating space to let out some of this storm. at the moment, it was a Hail Mary— my only chance at surviving.
but it became the absolute core and foundation of my self love journey. and I am so elated to bring this to you this month. because the truth is, it is necessary. it is important. to truly heal and create an honest and intimate relationship with ourselves, we absolutely have to learn how to sit in presence with our emotions. I have an entire toolbox to offer you— practices for your body, mind, and spirit. you can take this journey in your own way, you can take it on as a learning moment of gathering some great tools and information in the future. you can also go a bit deeper, and utilize these practices for some of your emotions now. either way, the result will be a deeper closeness with yourself, a true intimacy and self love. and it will be so worth your while.
im here throughout the month in our subscriber chat for conversations and questions, and you can also comment here on this post. later in the month, I'll meet you with our monthly deep dive journaling practice, and also a little recipes for self love.
Inside October’s Self Love Practice: The Language of Your Emotions
over these four weeks, we’re going to practice something that can change the entire relationship we have with ourselves:
feeling authentically. listening with love and presence. making space to process and release. deepening the bond with yourself.
we’re going to slow down enough to notice what’s happening within us, get curious about our emotions, and learn how to meet ourselves with a lot more honesty and tenderness.
week one: reconnecting with your body
week two: opening up communication with yourself
week three: listening to your emotions + building emotional literacy
week four: creating emotional safety
this month is going to be a little bit tender, a little bit introspective, and deeply self loving.
we’ll learn to listen to the wisdom of our bodies.
we’ll practice having more honest conversations with ourselves.
we’ll create space for the emotions we usually rush past.
we’ll get curious about what our feelings might be trying to tell us.
we’ll build our own emotional safety toolkit.
and we’ll practice becoming a place where we can safely land, even on the harder days.and more than anything, I want you to see this month as a collection of tools you can carry with you.
these aren’t practices you’re meant to complete and leave behind when October ends. they’re tools you can return to whenever you need them— when you’re overwhelmed, disconnected, stuck, hurting, or simply wanting to understand yourself a little better.
the hope is that, little by little, these practices become things you know how to reach for.
because the most powerful kind of self-love isn’t something you learn once.
it’s something you learn how to give yourself, again and again.I want this month to feel less like “fixing” your emotions and more like learning how to truly be present with yourself through them.
P.S. When you become a paid reader, here is what lands in your inbox each month:
You’ll receive three private letters and practices every month, each supporting a different part of building a loving and trustworthy relationship with yourself:
🌙 The Monthly Self Love Practice: helps you explore one meaningful theme through guided reflection, real life practice, self love dates, and little acts of devotion.
📓 The Monthly Guided Journal Deep Dive: A thoughtful collection of intentional journal prompts to help you explore one part of your inner life, uncover what is beneath the surface, and understand yourself more deeply.
🕯 The Self Love Recipes: little recipes for the moments you need a bit of extra care. whether you’re resetting, feeling stuck, craving comfort, or simply wanting to make your life feel a little more lovely.
Plus seasonal Self-Love Care Packages, occasional surprise letters, and immediate access to the complete Lessons in Self Love library.
It is a steady monthly rhythm of reflection, practice, and return—created to help you bring self-love beyond the page and into your actual life.
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practice 01 | week one: reconnecting with your body
welcome my loves, to week one! I can’t even contain my excitement for you, I have such a special little week planned! the intention for this first practice is to truly just get simply curious. which is such a special act of self love, to get curious without expectation and without judgement. we are going to get really intentional and present with the activities I have planned for us, and it is going to bring so much awareness, realization, and learning about yourself and who you truly are.
your body holds so much intelligence, you just have to stop long enough to hear it.