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The key to happiness is love yourself!

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Thank you for this. Great way and inspiration for a good day. Putting yourself first is so important. I. Also recently accepted that this is a recovery process for me, not just acceptance. Stay strong and have a good day. 🙏💪❤️

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👍

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primrose81

Ah, still struggle with this one…

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Me too. I “like” me but wouldn’t go so far as to say I “love” myself. I suffer from perfectionism, so of course, the bar is always set to high for complete self-love. An impossible standard to meet …

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I thought I could never love myself but its starting to happen now! took a long time but never say never.

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For me is goes something like this: Complete self-love means complete acceptance of oneself as is. This leads me to the believe that there will be no more improvement, no more challenges, no more need to learn, no more growth, no more fun etc. I’m not ready to go there yet. I’d just be a zombie, albeit a peaceful one. Maybe I’m missing the whole point.

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When you love yourself life gets better and better. first I had to forgive myself and any person that did me wrong this was a big one! Ive only just manage it. Years of releasing anger fear, guilt came first, still do this now.

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Like I said, I do like myself, but loving myself feels kind of selfish. Would rather love others more. I can handle me, just want others to love themselves. That makes me happy. So happy you are finding your way to do this. That makes me happy. 😀

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We are all one when you love yourself you are loving others. Its like we a a drop of the ocean but we are still a part of the ocean.

Must think about this more. No anger inside me. Just very hard on myself. Bad habit.

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You have to do the work on yourself, nothing happens until we change.

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Ok boss, I’m already on it. Why do you think I’m here talking to you?

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Should have inquired about your hourly therapy rate b4 spilling my guts.

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Free to you. just been researching EFT emotional freedom Tech. look interesting.

Talked to several ppl who swear by tapping. It hasn’t worked for me cuz I get stuck in the feeling that I’m not hitting the exact right points and then that causes me to stress about it, therefore no relief. I’m sure you won’t have this problem of course.

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