❤️ LOVING YOURSELF ❤️

The other day, I was listening to Aubrey Marcus’ podcast.

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This really stayed with me:
.✨ “The thing you love the least about yourself is the ceiling on your self love.” ✨
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Self-love is a life long journey.
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It’s not a thing you read a book on and then you’re sorted - you love yourself forever.
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It’s about keeping on loving yourself as you uncover parts of yourself that you might feel shame, judgement or guilt around.
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Just when I think I nailed self-love, nearly every time, I’m shown an aspect of myself I haven’t accepted and loved yet and here we dive in again 😄
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Can you love yourself when you first wake up in the morning?
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Can you love yourself when your body doesn’t look how you want it to look?
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Can you love yourself when you’re not being productive?
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Can you love yourself when you feel angry or jealous?
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Can you love yourself when you made a mistake?
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Can you love yourself when you’re acting out of Ego?
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That’s self-love.
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Or is your love conditional when you’re doing/being/feeling in a way that is easy to love?
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We have our darkness and our light. Both are equally important.
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Our lightest lightness will be the same amount as our darkest darkness. The light cannot exist without the darkness, but the darkness can.
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It’s about honouring the whole spectrum of our humanness and having love for ourselves even in our dark moments ✨
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So how do you love yourself?
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You become the parents for your inner girl/boy and give them love in a way they wish they received.
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Treat yourself like someone you love. Talk to yourself in a way you’d talk to a loved one ❤️
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Give yourself the care, love and acceptance you might seek from the outside ✨
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Hold yourself and hug yourself. Caress your body and face 🥰
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Tell the little girl/boy in you, you’re loved and perfect as you are 💫
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It’s a life long journey and it’s so worthwhile to take it 🤗
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Love you 💛
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