What is self-love, really?

“We are an inner world yet to be discovered.” ― Ciela Wynter

What is self-love, really? When you break it down.

I don’t profess to know...

but I work to practice it, embody it

every day.

It is an essential part of the golden rule.

“Love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev. 19:18).

But what does it mean to love yourself?

When I used to hear that, I would make my worried uh-oh stress face. Why? Because I knew that I was unkind to myself. And that I was ashamed of it.

You see…. I didn’t love myself. I had heard of this perfectly simple idea, but it didn’t compute. I did not know that

love is not a feeling, it is a verb…

an action.

Up until recently, I didn’t even know I was even in the room. Parts of me were, but the parts I had disowned were in exile and the former co-dependent in me was on automatic pilot trying to control every one else’s feelings — except my own.

When I break down what actions then, are essential to self-love.

One of the most important one, to me, is to take the time to get to know myself by

listening,

deeply

to myself.

My inner dia…