gouache painting

A painting to celebrate Mother’s day, motherhood, strong women and my amazing mom.

As I celebrate another blessed year in my life, I can not stop thinking about how many times my mother gave me courage, helped me get back on my feet and made me feel secure.

So this is for her, FOR EVERYTHING she has done for me.

gouache painting

YAKAP, it means hug in tagalog.

On these difficult times we’ve all been learning to practice more and more self-care and self-love on ourselves, but I feel like sometimes even these “attentions” have become a trend of the moment, a habit you learn to practice but almost like an automatic reaction to something that made us upset or sad.

Hugs though, they are what gives you warmth, real comfort. And since we can not give or receive them that much lately I wonder: how many times have you hugged yourself, accepting your flaws and all and saying to yourself “I don’t need to be perfect. I just need to embrace the moment and do what I feel to” ?

I feel like we should add self-hug to the list of practices we learned to do to show ourselves more love.

Be gentle to yourself ♥︎