A Day for Women: The National Holiday We Deserve for Self-Love and Emotional Rest
Reclaiming Your Power: One Woman's Call for Self-Love, Healing, and a National Holiday to Honor Women's Worth
Women are expected to give endlessly — our time, our love, our strength, our energy, our patience, and our hearts. From the moment we are born, society teaches us to care for everyone else before ourselves. We grow up believing that self-love is selfish, when in reality, self-love is survival.
For many women, stepping into strength starts with stepping into responsibility far sooner than we should have to. I lost my mother to domestic violence at a young age, and it forced me to grow up fast. I became a caretaker for my siblings long before I was emotionally ready. I poured into them because I had to. I loved them because I wanted to. But sometimes, when I needed to rest, I felt guilty.
Guilty for not having more to give.
Guilty for choosing myself, even for a moment.
Guilty for needing silence, healing, or peace.
So many women know that feeling.
And that is why I believe we need a Women’s Self-Love Day — a paid national holiday where women are encouraged and allowed to put themselves FIRST. A day to pour all the love we give to everyone else… back into ourselves. A day to reconnect with the woman inside, not just the roles we play. A day to sit with our own thoughts, make peace with our story, reflect on our wounds, celebrate our victories, and breathe again.
When I say women should be “selfish,” I mean this:
Women deserve to love themselves with the same devotion they pour into the world.
Not selfish to harm others — selfish enough to save themselves.
Selfish enough to refill the emotional cup they constantly empty for everyone else.
Selfish enough to choose me, myself, and I — not out of loneliness, but out of self-respect.
Because the truth is this:
Everything we search for in other people — validation, protection, attention, support, love — we already have the power to give to ourselves.
Women don’t need permission from the world to love themselves.
But we do need space.
We do need rest.
And sometimes, we need a moment to remember who we are beneath everything we’ve carried.
And here is a truth we don’t say enough:
Women are the backbone of life itself.
If women stopped birthing, nurturing, guiding, and holding families together, the entire world would stop. Civilization would break.
Humanity would disappear.
The planet would stop moving forward.
That is the power of women.
That is the value of women.
That is the reason women deserve a holiday.
