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What is self love?

What is self love?

Self-love means that you accept yourself fully, treat yourself with kindness and respect, and nurture your growth and wellbeing.

Basically, you love your self even if u mess up or even if u feel sad, at the end of the day you forgive yourself because you love yourself and trust yourself that you will be alright.

Self-love is sometimes mistaken being "happy all the time", well NOPE that's not the case. Self love is when no matter what happens you love yourself and be your side and pick yourself up when you fail in something or feel sad.

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What does self-love look like?

What does self-love look like?

The following are examples of what self-love can look like in action.

  • Forgiving yourself when you mess up
  • Not letting others take your advantage or abuse you
  • Prioritizing your health and wellbeing
  • Spending time with people that help you be the better version of yourself
  • Valuing your feelings
  • Pursing you goals and interests 
  • Challenging yourself
  • Accepting your imperfections

     and etc...

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Why do we need to love ourselves?

Why do we need to love ourselves?

If you don't love yourself you will fall into the trap of people-pleasers, you would allow people to abuse you or make decisions that you don't like. Why? Because you are highly critical of yourself

We need to love ourselves, because it allows us to be more assertive, self-confident, set boundaries, create healthy relationships and be proud of who you are and the way you are.

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Self-love vs. narcissism

Self-love vs. narcissism

Narcissism:-

It means when you don't see your mistakes, think that you are above everyone and don't care about anyone, you need external validation and you lack empathy for others.

Self-love:-

It means when you see your mistakes, accept them and try to improve in the future, you give the same kindness to yourself that you give to others.

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Putting self-love into practice

Putting self-love into practice

Now, how we do love ourselves? 

  • Start by seeing things that you love about yourself.
  • Write down what efforts or actions you would take for loving yourself on a paper because that increases accountability.
  •  Start saying things like, my hairs look so good today or i love my smile, etc.

With practice, self-love becomes a second nature.

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