{"id":1996,"date":"2026-05-07T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:37:22","slug":"a-21-step-guide-to-self-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/a-21-step-guide-to-self-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A 21-Step Guide to Self-Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 21-Step Guide to Self-Love\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

you broke my heart so you should give me yours<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -Naomi Sharon\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. filter the petrichor from the air<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. sift the stillness from the arrival of rain\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. leave its drops to patter against your roof<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. behold the cuckoos preening their feathers by your window<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. listen for the music your body makes with the whispers of the wind\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. stretch the perforations on your thick skin wide enough to house your hands\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. reach under your muscles and gather every bone you’ve wanted to pick with him<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. trace the track of your tendons with your fingers<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. pull them till they snap your body back into wakefulness\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. demand for what once filled that chest with melodies<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. ask for each finger that has reached to squeeze your wholeness,\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. rearrange the Brandy albums that kept you awake when the whole world tasted death<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. pluck out the metaphors etched in the little poems you squeezed into the crevices of his eyes<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. request for the rabbit in the moon he promised to help you catch\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. return the shadows he drowned in your darkness on nights only the stars smiled<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. dissect his noise from your voice<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. empty out the dessicated wings in your belly<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. launder his sweat and promises and cologne and sap and hair and blood from your linen<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. flatten out the tension he planted on the surface of your cheeks<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. distill the tenderness you gifted him and inject it in your veins<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. lie on your back and let the crimson in you flow again<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A 21-Step Guide to Self-Love\u00a0 you broke my heart so you should give me yours \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -Naomi Sharon\u00a0 filter the petrichor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}