How do you LOVE yourself

If you don't even LIKE yourself?

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Inevitably, when you are talking about working on yourself you come across the phrase that you need to “love yourself.” I'm not even sure what loving yourself means. I came across a podcast with Matthew Hussey where he said.

“You don’t have to like yourself to love yourself.”

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That didn’t really compute for me, because in my mind, love comes after like.  The next thing he said gave me a lot of clarity.

“Love is a verb.”

When you start to look at loving yourself as an action, it shifts your perspective. Loving yourself is not necessarily appreciating who you are – it is about doing the things that make you feel appreciated.

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