I truly believe that confidence is created when we each truly express love for ourselves. A love that is pure, honest and unshakeable. Christine Arylo is a speaker, author, coach, woman, founder of the Self Love Studio and the force behind Madly in Love with ME™ a self-love movement. This incredible movement was created to raise the awareness of self-love among women and girls around the world because “there is nothing more beautiful, powerful or free than a woman who truly loves herself!”  ~ Christine Arylo.

Best known as an inspirational catalyst for women and girls everywhere, daring, inspiring and guiding them to be, love and live their REAL MEs… instead of the images they often find themselves trying to live into. I had the great honour to ask Christine some intimate questions.

1.       What is your personal definition of Faith?

Faith is what makes things possible, not easy. It’s your deep deep belief, and I am talking deep, that no matter what happens you will be okay. It’s your deep trust that there is something bigger at work, supporting and guiding you. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with believing that you are ultimately taken care of. Faith is one of my top three values, and without it I could do none of what I do. I am constantly amazed at how deep my faith goes and how much it is tested. When I heard a voice say to me, “You go out and inspire women to love themselves, Christine!.” It was faith that got me to quit my corporate job and start a self-love movement. Without faith I would still me standing still trying to figure out what that actually meant.

2.       What are your secrets to Authentic Style?

Know who you are and express her without apology.  First you have to really know who you are underneath all the conditioning and the fear we’ve all picked up along the way. What are your unique gifts? Your dreams? What makes you come alive? What are the words your soul embodies? And then you have to have the courage to express her without caring what anyone else thinks. To be willing to stand in the middle of the world and be totally different, say what others would never say but that lives in your heart. Too many people live trapped inside themselves. You owe it to yourself to liberate the girl and woman that lives inside you!

3.       How would you define the Style of your work?

Real with heart. Playful whimsy. And spirited passion. For too long self-love has been reserved for therapy rooms and spiritual circles. My goal is to make self-love hot, hip and hers for every woman and girl, and to do so in a way that makes it really tangible about what self love is, and how one goes about getting and keeping it.

4.       What are the items in your life that you absolutely couldn’t live without?

Faith. Magic. Freedom. and Love.

5.       What are your newest obsessions? This may sound a little weird, but I am obsessed with adrenal glands!

No I am not a doctor, but I am hooked on learning more about the silent diseases related to the exhaustion of our adrenal glands. Over 80% of women today have adrenal glands that are exhausted and they are headed toward major adrenal gland fatigue which leads to thyroid disease, auto immune disease, hair loss, weight gain, and more. Many women have no idea that they are living with their adrenals on overdrive, and they live that way for years to their bodies literally shut down. Most women don’t even know what adrenal gland fatigue is. I’ll be doing an entire series on Self Love Studio in the spring interviewing women who have had this, women who help women through it. 4 out of 5 women is a lot of women, and if you are reading this, chances are that you are one of those women.

6.       Do you have any exciting news you’d like to share with us?

This February 13th is the second year of the international day of self-love, Madly in Love with ME™ Day. And I am SO excited that five cities across the US are having Self Luv-apaloozas, events on that day that women can attend and fall madly in love with themselves – San Francisco, Chicago, Orlando, Detroit, and San Diego. More and more women are also having their own events, which you can do by downloading the free Madly in Love with Me Kit from www.madlyinlovewithme.com It makes my heart all happy to see women and girls saying YES to falling in love with themselves!

Join the movement, express the love you have for yourself as a human, as an individual and most importantly as a women. Because that kind of love transforms, it sends a positive message and it allows change to happen in a natural organic way. Want to get involved? Go to the website and download the Madly in Love with ME™ KIT, participate in the video dare or write your very own Madly in Love with ME™ Manifesta. Come back on Friday and read my personal Madly in Love with ME™ Manifesta and my story of self-love.

The Madly in Love with ME™ Manifesta

Our vision for what the world looks like when a woman truly loves herself.

We believe that every woman has the right to fall madly in love with herself. To be so in love with who she is, to so deeply honor her body, mind and spirit that every choice she makes reflects that same deep honoring. That she is not only entitled to love herself, she is empowered to love herself simply because she is.