Hi Friend,
We continue our Self-Love month of June with a popular way to develop self-love that I completely disagree with.
And you need to know about it to keep yourself from feeling frustrated or like a failure when it makes you feel even LESS lovable than before!
Getting massages, taking bubble baths, meditating, and me-time are ways of appreciating yourself and I believe that is vital.
However...
Self-care is not self-love.
If you feel guilty for spending money on yourself or taking time from your to-do list, it can make you feel worse about yourself, and not lovable at all.
If you feel selfish for doing things for YOU, it plays right into what I shared with you last week as a belief that is generations old about self-love being selfish and egotistical.
Remember this? When I looked up synonyms for self-love on Microsoft Word 2016? |