5 Tips to Start Loving Yourself When You Don’t Believe You Can

Do you want to learn to start loving yourself? To stop feeling as though your past mistakes or life situations define you?

Not sure that this is even possible, ready to even settle at being able to accept yourself?

This blog/ video is just for you, as I will be discussing how to start loving yourself. Beginning with understanding and acceptance of your current beliefs and thoughts. Then by starting to create shifts towards acceptance of ourselves and eventually love.

1. Understand Why You Currently Don’t Love Yourself

When you think about loving yourself what comes up for you? Why do you think you don’t love yourself?

To be able to truly love yourself, you must first understand where the not loving yourself is coming from. Become mindful of those thoughts that are unkind and not loving in nature: why are they there, where have they come from?

How much of this is coming from other people or fears around other people?

2. Think Small Steps Towards Change

3. Accept That The Past is The Past

Accept that any thing that has happened in the past cannot be changed. Holding onto past failures, mistakes or bad decisions will not change them. It is important to be able to come to terms with this. Recognize the potential of accepting these things and moving forward. The past can define us, if we let it, but we can choose to change our narrative and not let it define us.

4. Start Changing These Unhelpful Beliefs and Thoughts

Once you have a good awareness and understanding of the thoughts and beliefs that are not helping you to start loving yourself, you can start shifting them. You may already have started doing this as you have become more mindful of them.

This part is definitely not easy but it is pivotal in starting to love yourself. Start by really questioning those thoughts you are having – are they true? Or are they coming from a belief that has developed? What thought would be more helpful?

5. Get clear on why you want to love yourself

Why is this important to you? Is it so you can let go of certain feelings like shame or feelings of not being accepted? So you can set a good example for your kids? So you can unlearn other things in your life that you are not happy about?

Get clear on why so that you are more likely to do the work and take the time to create this big change in your life. Be intentional about what you are after and what it means to you.

In Closing:

Loving yourself when you are coming from a place where you don’t believe it is possible can be very hard. But not impossible! It takes time and grace towards yourself to do the inner work needed to find that self-love. I really hope you have found this blog helpful in starting to at least accept yourself.

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