Love is the foundation of all things and it is always good when you love and you're loved back but it is great when we love ourselves first before loving another person.
Most times, we neglect our self love because we get carried away with caring about the people we hold dear to our hearts and at times even the people we cared for and loved end up betraying us or end up not showing same love back to us.
Starting to love ourselves is a big journey of its own which must be embarked on with great decision if we want to scale through.
The first thing to do in the situation of loving oneself is reflecting on our wins from the small ones, not just the big ones alone should be recognized and celebrated but for every small wins we have as well should be celebrated just as much as we celebrate the big ones.
In some situations we think there are some things we've done in the past which we think we can't forgive ourselves for whenever we remember them and this has caused us losing the interest of loving ourselves probably because we want to punish ourselves.
The fact remains that we can't possibly do everything right and we are prone to making mistakes just like every other person so we should learn to forgive ourselves, letting go of all the guilts and whatever shame it brought to us.
We should ensure that we appreciate what and who we are and not falling into the critics or body shaming by people.
Appreciate yourself and people will appreciate you as well.
Looking after our health and also ensuring that we eat healthy, guarding ourselves against any form of disease caused by imbalanced diet. Learning about the things we love to do, what we desire to do and doing those things to give us the inner peace and joy we deserve.
All these might not be easy to achieve at once but we can take it a step at a time to ensure loving ourselves even when no one is able to put us through or tell us how.
I'll be dropping my pen here and thanks for reading through 🤗
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