Are there any beliefs hanging out in the shadows of your mind that are tied to thoughts that you are not “love-able” (able to love or be loved)? If there are, it is a lie.
We really never know what someone might be facing or harboring inside. Just because they smile on the outside, doesn’t mean that they aren’t dealing with a lot of things in secret. You never know what someone is going through.
Accepting one’s failings, rather than being tortured by them, is a self-respect starting point. Appreciating your intrinsic value is “a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth,” Didion wrote.
It’s the month of love, aka February, and there’s coverage everywhere about love when it comes relationships, dating, marriages, and all of the above. But I thought it might be also appropriate to write about another kind of love: self-love.