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Self Love Matters
Are you in a state of self-love or the lack of it?
Self-love is a topic, that may seem almost cliché, which is a shame as it turns out to be the starting point for all the really fun, exciting, important things in life.
Depending on what type of experiences you had growing up you may deviate a bit between a balanced and healthy self-love approach to a much more subdued even lacking self-love belief. Let’s learn a little more about self-love.
Are you in a state of self-love or the lack of it?
A lot of the choices we make, behaviors we display, and feelings we have about ourselves can reveal where we are in the process of self-love.
Have you truly processed old pain? If you have gone through experiences where you were abused, mistreated, had your trust broken, bullied, or felt as if you were an outsider there can often be a tendency to feel as if you are unworthy of love from others. But what this is actually coming from is a state of disconnect internally, caused by the abuse.
When we go into survival mode we have to shut down a lot internally, we have to stay focused on only what’s right in front of us. While this is good in the moment of actual crisis it becomes problematic when the tendency to go on survival mode is…
