How to Learn to Love Yourself

And, how you can apply these principals to live a happier, more fulfilling life.

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Self love: It’s one of those concepts that we hear about all the time, but it’s truly difficult to grasp let alone achieve. That’s understandable. We are our own worst critics, our own worst enemy. How can you love yourself when most of us don’t even really like ourselves?

Think about: How many times do you beat yourself up on a daily basis for even the smallest infraction? Or criticize yourself, or talk down to yourself, or even say “I hate you” to yourself? (Raises hand)

I’m not going to lie, I’ve made A LOT of mistakes in my life. I’ve done some things of which I am truly ashamed, things I would never want my friends or family to know about; things I look back upon with a big ole dose of “what the hell was I thinking??”

Then there’s the shoulda’s, coulda’s, woulda’s. If I hadn’t been so damned stupid and foolish…blah, blah, blah.

We do this to ourselves everyday. We look at where we are in our lives, what we don’t like about it and ourselves, and berate the hell out of ourselves for not being perfect and mistake-free. We look at how our past actions and decisions created our present reality and mentally kick ourselves in the ass for doing whatever unfortunate thing we did to create this not-so-favorable…