I Love Me with Tamra Mercieca

Today we’re rolling up our sleeves and getting hands-on with the ultimate self-care practice: Self-massage.   Now before you start thinking, ‘Oh, I can just pay someone else to give me a massage’ or ask my partner, we don’t want to get in the habit of outsourcing our self-love. While I certainly do enjoy receiving a massage from a professional or my husband occasionally, there is so much healing w...

I’d like to invite you to sit with this question….   How is your relationship with food?   If you’ve ever felt trapped in a cycle of guilt or shame or frustration around what you eat or how much you eat - you’re not alone. With all the conflicting food advice, and pressures to look a certain way, eating has become smothered in all kinds of harmful emotions, that trigger off unhealthy eating habits...

Can I let you in on a little secret? You don’t need to ADD more to your already full plate, to enjoy the magic of self-love. You don’t need to journal each day, take bubble baths every other night or spend hours in meditation… unless of course you want too…   Instead, you can sprinkle love into what you ALREADY do each day. Whether it’s your morning cuppa tea, folding the laundry, or that five min...

If there’s one thing that gets in the way of people actively engaging in self-love, it’s time. Or a lack there of.   It’s very common for people to use ‘not having enough time’ as a reason to NOT do the things they want or need, to live happy and fulfilling lives. We get so caught up in the hustle and bustle, essentially mimicking a hamster on a never ending wheel of to-do lists…   What’s the firs...

Imagine your mind, for a moment, as a busy street… with thoughts zooming by like cars on a 6-lane highway. Some cars drive past multiple times a day, maybe even multiple times per minute… while others run into us at full speed, knocking us into a state of emotional turmoil, reactivity and anxiety.   These cars represent our thoughts, emotions and programmed beliefs; they clutter up our mind and ge...

We all feel fear. It’s a primal emotion, that’s deeply ingrained in human evolution, essential for our survival in the face of danger.   But what happens when we experience prolonged states of fear? When we let fear invade our lives multiple times per day?   Today on I Love Me The Podcast, we learn how to love away our fear, so it doesn’t cripple our immune system and get in the way of us living h...

Fear has this remarkable ability to immobilise us. To make us second-guess our decisions, our actions…  And keep us rooted in the familiar.   But what if we could have a different relationship with fear? What if, instead of seeing fear as scary - a reason to run away and hide - we saw fear as a guiding force, nudging us towards our fullest potential?   Today on I Love Me the Podcast, we explore th...

I love this quote from the Dalai Lama: ‘Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible’. Always possible, but not always practiced.   Hence why I invite you to consider for a moment…   - Are you being kind? - Kind to yourself? - Kind to the people around you? - Do you move through your day with the intention of being kind?   Kindness is a necessary path to self-love. It’s something we can practi...

What if every bite you took was an act of self-love?   Well… it can be, when we bring awareness to what we put in our body and consciously choose the foods that will nourish, not only our body, but our mind.   Today on I Love Me the Podcast, we’ll explore the best foods for long-term mental and physical health, and reveal the top three food villains, you want to avoid.   It’s my intention that aft...

There is no such thing as a grey sky. The sky is always blue. Sometimes, however, grey clouds come and cover the blue sky. And this can make us ‘think’ the sky is grey. Well, it’s the same with our minds.   The blue sky can be likened to our True Self; the part of us that is free from the conditioning of our mind. The part of us that sees our brilliance. The part of us that was always designed to...

If you’ve been on this journey with me for a while now, you’ll know we all have a True Self; a guiding light within us - a place of inner wisdom - that’s free from the negative chatter of the mind.   Well, we also have what Sigmund Freud coined back in the 19th century, as an ‘Ego’. Ahhh, the Ego… Our misunderstood travelling companion, often blamed for our inner turmoil.   The question I invite y...

Ok, let’s be honest…There are a LOT of coffee lovers out there. You may be one of them. I was one of them, for almost 20 years. But then 10 years ago, something changed for me… And I gave up coffee… for good!   In this week’s episode on I Love Me The Podcast, I share: How coffee makes depression and anxiety worse How coffee puts the body into a low-level state of anxiety (even if you’re not genera...

When was the last time you had a really good belly laugh? Where you couldn’t stop yourself laughing? Where you laughed so hard that your belly actually started to hurt? Do you remember such a time?   In today’s fast-paced, pressure-filled world it’s way too easy to get bogged down in the serious aspects of daily living… So much so, that we practically forget how to laugh. And over the years the ge...

Depression is no walk in the park. I’ve been there, done that. And decided it wasn’t for me! Yes, in my 20s I was experiencing severe clinical depression, and was on the verge of being put in a mental home, after continual attempts to take my own life.   What changed? I changed. I decided to start loving myself, instead of hating myself. And over the course of the next few years, I said good bye t...

If you experience anxiety, I feel you. In my 20s I had my fair share of anxiety attacks. It was awful. And really impacted my life and my relationships in quite devastating ways.   That was before I learnt what I’m about to share with you in today’s episode on I Love Me The Podcast. Yes today, I’ll teach to a tool that gets rid of anxiety in 2-minutes flat!   Take a peek at the full episode show n...

We are always in conversation with ourselves. Telling ourselves things about ourself and the world around us. Yet, for most people, this inner dialogue is of a somewhat negative nature. Our inner critic sure does like to make us feel bad about ourself, if we let it…   In today’s episode of I Love Me The Podcast I’ll share a beautiful bedtime practice to help you change that inner conversation to o...

I invite you to contemplate this question for a moment: What is the biggest cause of unhappiness?   Maybe you say a lack of money, a lack of a loving partner, a lack of a body you can feel proud of when you look in the mirror, a lack of some other thing you so desperately want…   In my experience, the biggest cause of unhappiness is a lack of gratitude.   So many people fall into the pattern of ta...

Contentment can feel like a warm, juicy hug on a chilly winter’s day. Wrapped up in a hug of contentment is a feeling of safety, ease, a calm sense of happiness, and a deep inner knowing that all is as it should be. All, is well.   Unfortunately, in our fast-paced, goal-driven world, this feeling of ‘contentment’ often gets bypassed. Which is no surprise, given the onslaught of messages we get, te...

Ever wondered what makes a pelvic floor weak or strong? If so… you’re not alone.   As you learnt last week our pelvic floor is essential for everyday living - it’s what keeps us balanced and aligned both physically and emotionally. It allows us to pee and poop and enjoy deeper pleasure in the bedroom…   That is… if it’s in a healthy, supple state. And that’s what we’ll be exploring on today’s epis...

If there’s one area of the body that’s cloaked in mystery, it’s the pelvic floor. Well, we all have one. And thank goodness for that, because it’s responsible for everything from bladder control to sexual pleasure…   Yes, the pelvic floor is a necessary web of muscles responsible for a whole pelvis full of functions that affect every day life… From women’s health to emotional and physical stabilit...

Self-love isn’t just a new fad or some trendy catchphrase. When we dive under the surface of self-love, we discover that self-love is in fact the foundation of a happy, healthy and fulfilling life.   So if you’ve been thinking there’s not much substance to self-love, and that perhaps it’s not relevant to you… OR you simply want to understand more about how cultivating self-love will ripple through...

We’ve all heard the expression ‘Follow Your Heart’, but what does that really mean? How do we tell the difference between what our heart is guiding us to do and what our brain thinks we should do?   Our heart speaks to us every moment of every day, but most of us have stopped listening to its signal; it’s like we’ve turned off that part of us that intuitively knows the answer to all our problems....

How often to you find yourself caught in the trap of measuring your worth, based on some external standard? Maybe it’s through social media likes, a job title, your looks or material possessions… Whatever it is, there’s a tendency for us human beings to seek validation from the world around us.   But what if I told you that your worth isn’t tied to any of these external factors? In fact, what if I...

Manifesting isn’t just some woo woo concept conjured up by a group of sky-clad women dancing round a cauldron, ok? Manifesting, in my opinion, is a way of life.   For we are all manifesting, all the time. We may not always like what we’re inviting into our life… But that’s ok. Because all we need to do to change the results and outcomes we’re manifesting right now, is to up our level of self-love....

How full is your self-love tank? Is it running on empty, where you feel like you’re constantly on the verge of breaking down? Or do you know how to say Yes to yourself - how to make yourself a priority?   When we’re willing to give to ourself first, our love tank overflows, and only then can we truely give to those around us.   In today’s episode on I Love Me The Podcast, we explore why it’s absol...