What is self-love, compared with self-esteem? As self-esteem is about feeling that we are worthy of acceptance, love, respect, honor, from the outside, self-love is feeling those things for ourselves, to ourselves. It is feeling thankful for who we are, intrinsically. It’s feeling that we are worthy of acceptance, love, respect, honor, from the inside.

Sometimes that’s a harder battle.

We know what we do for others. We can often see the effects our actions have on the world. We can understand why the world should give us those wonderful things. But we don’t always know or see why we deserve to feel that way for ourselves, simply for existing. Isn’t that a bit…self-centered?

Not at all. Loving ourselves is an extremely worthwhile journey. A love affair that lasts a lifetime. We can love others while not loving ourselves, but it’s not usually a healthy love. It’s rather difficult to give from an empty vessel.

We give so much love to the world. Let’s give love to ourselves as well.