LBCC students attend and learn about self-love by attending, Learn to Love Yourself Through Mindfulness: Practicing the Act of Self-Compassion. The zoom event was facilitated by two LBCC Mental Health Clinicians, Daisy Cook and Brianna Reyes on April 2.
While waiting for the workshop to begin, many students participated in an anonymous pre-survey. The pre-surveys goal was to rate students on a few topics including: self love, confidence, positivity, mindfulness, loving others, forgiveness, and other similar topics.
Reyes opened the virtual event with the agenda for the workshop and explained thoroughly about what the workshop would consist of.
Reyes said, “Calming our body with a supportive touch is a good way to feel at ease within yourself, because sometimes as humans we just want a hug from others or just want to feel loved, secured and comforted.”
Some ways you can practice and use supportive touch is through exercises; put one hand on your cheek, gently stroke your arms, one hand holding the other, crossing your arms and giving a gentle squeeze, two hands on your belly.
You have to keep in mind that when you’re practicing the supportive touch exercises, to take a few slow deep breaths, start by slowly inhaling in and then exhaling.
Cook then asked the participants, what are five good self affirmations you would describe yourself as? Is there anything you would change about yourself like any flaws or bad habits you have?
She explained that the five self affirmations can be said while looking in a mirror, your cell phone screen or just announcing them outloud with confidence. These exercises will allow you to gain more appreciation toward yourself.
Reyes said, “Self love is known to be the best love ever. You have to give yourself the same exact love and attention that you give others and then just watch how you start to bloom and grow.”
Cook went on to explain the importance of forgiving yourself and most importantly forgiving others in life by using the rule of self-talk.
Self-talk is the way your inner voice makes sense of the world around you and the way you communicate with your inner self.
The workshop ended with a reflection for participants to ask themselves some questions like what if they learned anything new about themselves and how did they feel in their body when making self-compassion statements?
For further information you can contact LBCC Student Health Services for the PCC campus at 562-938-3992 and 562-938-4210 for the LAC campus. It is advised to leave a voice message and include: your first and last name, call back number, student ID number and make sure to indicate if it’s for your mental health or if it’s medical.
Lastly, the hours of LBCC Student Health services are: Monday through Thursday from 8:00am to 5:00pm and Friday from 8am to12:00pm. To be updated with recent news or events you can follow health services on their Instagram by searching @LBCC_Healthyvikings.