THE LOVE CHALLENGE

✅ MANDATORY - Once a week, all month, make a conscious effort to treat yourself. You decide what that entails for you.

⓵ - sushi and doughnut treat

⓶ - uninterrupted watching of You season 4

⓷ - home hair dye refresher

⓸ - snoozy, dozy, bubbly bath, listening to 2000s emo

❌ Make a Valentine's, Palentine's or Galentine's Day card

✅ Write a love letter to yourself, reminding yourself of all your positive qualities

❌  Write a letter to someone you love, telling them why you love them

✅ Make a rose from a medium of your choice. Optional - give it to someone

✅ Give someone you care about a bunch of flowers 

✅ Watch a RomCom with someone you care about

✅ Make a photo collage or vision board of things which make you smile

✅ Learn about the five love languages and recognise which apply/ies to you

✅ Make someone feel loved with a random act of kindness

✅ Learn about the history of Valentine's Day

💗 The Feast of Lupercalia

💗 The imprisonment and murder of St Valentine

💗 The Parlement of Foules by Geoffrey Chaucer

💗 Duke of Orleans' love letters

💗 Henry VIII - Valentine's Day becomes a national holiday

💗 Hamlet by Shakespeare

💗 Love tokens

💗 Hallmark commercialised Valentine's Day cards

❌ Draw or paint a picture of Cupid, or make a model of him

✅ Research the origins of the heart symbol and how hearts came to represent love

💗 Silphium & Cyrene coins

💗 Aristotle's heart, drawn by Guido da Vigevano

💗 St. Valentine's secret code

💗 Roman de la Poire

💗 Jesus' Sacred Heart

💗 I ♡ NY

✅ Create a heart-shaped food

✅ Write a love poem or a poem about love