I love Myself!

That doesn’t make me a bad person.

There seems to be a stigma attached to people who say they love themselves. The thought is, you must be a selfish self-centered person to love yourself. But that’s not true

What is Self-love?

Self-love is forgiveness, acceptance, and respect for who you are. When you love yourself you take care of yourself. If you can’t love yourself you can never love someone else.

There are many benefits to self-love.

For starters you will have more self confidence, and who doesn’t want more of that. You wont care as much about what other people think, because how they see you just wont matter as much.

You will have more love and compassion for others. Which will improve your friendships and relationships and can even improve your work life.

Loving yourself can actually improve your mental health. You will be less anxious and stressed and have less depression. This all sounds good to me.

If we get so many benefits from self-love why is it so hard to love yourself?

Most of us grew up in a society that taught us to put others first. We were never taught that we need to take care of ourselves, before we can take…