First Love Yourself (FLY) |A Creative Journaling & Identity Discovery Workshop

We all love stories.

From movies, books, sports documentaries, autobiographies, history, or even the people around us.

The heroes, rebels, thinkers, and dreamers we admire often reflect qualities we secretly want to live ourselves.

At First Love Yourself (FLY), we use those stories as a playful starting point to explore our own identity and life journey.

This is a fun, social, and experiential journaling workshop where we create space to reflect on our lives, share stories, and reconnect with the parts of ourselves we may have forgotten along the way, in a small cozy group setting, with creativity, freedom, and community.

How the FLY Workshop Works

Every participant receives a mini prompted journal created specially for the workshop, with exercises to reflect on your life, influences, and the stories that have shaped you.

The session moves through a guided experience that includes:

• Creating a safe and open space through introductions, music, and shared stories

• Exploring your extraordinary self through creative journaling and visualization

• Expressing yourself through freedom activities (dance, music, art, writing— You choose what freedom means to you)

• Reflecting on the ordinary patterns and expectations that shape our lives

• Exploring real-life situations where we want to act differently

• Finding inspiration from stories and role models we admire

• Crafting a personal Alter Ego identity as used by athletes, high performers, and leaders to redesign how they show up in life

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

How does Alter Ego help you in Self-love?

An Alter Ego is simply a version of yourself that represents qualities you admire and want to embody — courage, discipline, honesty, creativity, or confidence.

Many athletes, performers, and leaders use this technique to step beyond fear, self-doubt, and limiting beliefs.

Instead of waiting to “feel ready,” they borrow qualities from characters, role models, or identities that inspire them and practice showing up as that version of themselves.

In the context of self-love, this process helps you:

• See yourself with more compassion instead of harsh self-judgment

• Separate your identity from past failures or labels

• Experiment with new ways of thinking and behaving

• Reconnect with curiosity, creativity, and imagination that often fades in adulthood

• Design a healthier relationship with yourself

We'll explore stories that inspire us — from books, films, sports, history, or people we admire.

Because often, the qualities we admire in others reveal something we are ready to awaken within ourselves.

The workshop creates a space to explore that.

What the FLY Workshop Really Is (And What It's Not)

This is not a support group where people only vent.

We do talk honestly about our struggles and experiences but the intention is to reflect, learn, and grow from them together.

Through journaling, storytelling, creative exercises, and conversation, participants often discover:

• New perspectives about their life journey

• A deeper understanding of themselves

• The beginning of a freer story about who they can become

Sometimes the first step to loving yourself is simply seeing your life with fresh eyes.

Meet your Facilitator— Shreya Chaturvedi

Shreya Chaturvedi is the Founder of the Alter Ego Community and the creator of the 10-Step Alter Ego Framework, a system focused on identity redesign for sustainable behaviour change.

Shreya holds a B.Tech in Computer Science, an MBA in Marketing, and is trained in Sports Psychology. She also brings 12 years of corporate experience in IT, Marketing, and Branding.

Shreya designs experiences that help people explore identity, relationships, and personal growth through curiosity, rational thinking, storytelling, and community conversations.

Rather than offering advice or motivation, Shreya’s facilitation focuses on asking better questions, creating thoughtful spaces for reflection, and helping people design their own answers.

Over the past three years, her work has impacted 2000+ participants, helping people explore their patterns, beliefs, and identities through structured reflection and community-based creative experiences.

Her vision is to bring creativity and curiosity back into adult life.

FAQ: Can a 2-hour FLY workshop make me love myself again?

Probably not.

But it can create the moment where the journey begins.

The workshop helps you pause, reflect, and visualize what a freer, more authentic version of yourself might look like.

For those who want to continue the journey, our broader Alter Ego programs and journaling tools help people take those insights further through structured exploration and community support.

But the first step is simple:

Sit down. Reflect. Tell your story.

And begin writing the next chapter.