LOVE YOURSELF: It's HEALTHY

Insecurity is a problem for many people. In our comparison culture, there are measurements we challenge ourselves with and they can make us feel unworthy, less than, small and invisible. If we buy into those false conceptions of success personally and professionally, we fall into self-derogation, self-sabotage, and self-destruction traps.

With all these "be this" and "do that" inaccurate perceptions about how to be liked by others, the concept of our own self-appreciation and self-love can get lost in our perspectives of ourselves. Self-love can change how we feel overall, and how we live, move and have our being, and in all of all of our doings in life.

Is self-love a component of self-confidence? Well, the more self-love you feel can definitely contribute to the sense of inner strength and resources within, and of who you are as a person. Self-love can give you bravery and courage. Self-love can create a sense of assuredness as we face life. Self-love is dynamic.

Insecurity will get lost in self-love. Self-love will tell you all the reasons that you should not, cannot, and will not feel insecure. That is how bold self-love can be. 

It's a misnomer that self-love is selfish. Selfishness is another category, and it doesn't touch self-love, unless it's being used in a way that aids and protects ourselves from a wrong or an abuse. You have to be selfish about protecting yourself against what the self-defeating ideas about yourself tell you, thoughts that work against you, and against you loving yourself. ~ S.R.F.

EXCERPT from "Let's Talk About Faith and Self-Love" by Silver Rae Fox, available on Amazon Kindle