Self Love

We all long to live out our faith with daily joy, but so often that joy eludes us. Why is that? More often than we realize, it's because we've absorbed messages that curve us in on ourselves. These messages have even crept into the church, disguised as truth. It's time we learn to discern teaching that's toxic from that which is true and pure.

One of the most important things you need to do to achieve any kind of success is to be very realistic about yourself. You need to understand who you really are. Now, if you cannot even run for three minutes, you cannot start believing that you can win a gold medal in running, can you? Probably you can if you practice, but certainly not with what you are at present. This is what is extremely important to you when you begin. You have to understand your strengths and your capabilities. Realizing that is a very important step in believing in yourself.

Confidence has been scientifically proven to directly affect our happiness. As pressures from society increase, low self-esteem, and social anxiety have become all too common for many amazing people. This phenomenon shows itself in a loss of words, public shyness or an inability to connect with others. Thankfully, confidence is a skill that almost anyone can learn.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Magic will warm listeners' hearts and spread the wonder of the holiday season with its tales of love, joy, and awe. A fantastic holiday gift for the young and young at heart. Christmas is a magical time of year - a time of family, friends, and traditions. Listeners will revel in the 101 holiday stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Magic that spread the special joy, wonder, and blessings of the season with its tales of finding the perfect Christmas tree, being with family, seeing the awe in a child’s eyes, and enjoying the magic of the season.

Most of us have been given the advice at one point or another in our lives to “love yourself”. However, the big question for many people is: "How do I actually love myself?" This book will help you to develop an unconditional self-acceptance and self-love, boost your self-esteem and self-confidence, make better decisions for yourself and about your life, interact with other people better, enjoy life more, and more.

Life can get distracting, depressing even, and sometimes, we lose sight of who we are and who we want to be. But with daily, focused practice, we can change our thought patterns and reprogram our bodies and minds. If you cannot fully love yourself, you will be unable to love others. Plus, you’ll get burnt out a lot quicker because you aren’t taking the time to “fill your own cup”. Our guide is written to help you establish a healthy lifestyle, nurture your own hobbies, and provide strategies to overcome feelings of inadequacy.

Unexpected success created a spiritual crisis for Nikki Walton, which ultimately lead her to search her soul, scour religious texts, and come into closer connection with the divine in her daily life. This inspired GoOD Mornings, 5-minute meditations centering love and spirit to start the day, a popular podcast which has established her as a spiritual leader. She also offers prompts and insight into how this practice has opened her heart to expansiveness and freed her of fear.

In this expanded third edition, Brenda Schaeffer draws on years of feedback and new developments to foster an understanding of love addiction: what it is and what it is not, how to identify it, and, even more important, how to break free of it. Stories of real people struggling to develop sound relationships illustrate the characteristics of healthy love and help listeners to free themselves to find real intimacy.

Would you like to learn to accept yourself as you are and finally learn to love yourself? By giving you beneficial suggestions, the program supports you in consciously experiencing your own intrinsic value as a person (again) and can help you make significant changes in your quality of life and joie de vivre. You will pay conscious attention to your thoughts and feelings. You will direct your attention away from others and towards your own self-worth. In this way, you will become independent of the affection of others.

Join the artist and author Humble the Poet on a journey to improve your self-worth. You begin by recognizing that self-respect is the language of self-love. When you respect yourself, you won’t need validation from the outside because you’ve have tapped into your unlimited supply of love within. But all of us feel anxiety at some point, and Humble reminds us there’s nothing wrong with feeling anxiety—it’s a gift. Anxiety is the messenger, not the message!

In Self-Love, you’ll find 120 reflections that will help you cultivate and strengthen self-love. From recognizing the power of your body to forgiving yourself for past mistakes, this simple yet empowering guide will provide the tools to reconstruct how you view yourself. Each reflection comes with a short exercise that will help you actively build self-love and not just view it as an abstract concept.

In a series of intimate and candid conversations, they dig deep into the power of love, the benevolent nature of reality, the friendly universe, and the heart of who we really are. Life Loves You is filled with inspiring stories and helpful meditations, prayers, and exercises. Louise and Robert present a practical philosophy based on seven spiritual practices.

Do It Scared, by popular blogger and podcast host Ruth Soukup, is the essential handbook for any woman who has ever felt like she is sitting on the sidelines of her own life and is finally ready to jump in, dream big, and go after her goals. Equal parts inspiration and tough love, Do It Scared combines easy-to-implement tips with the motivation to start making real changes that lead to big results.

Discover the proven way to increase your self-confidence and motivation, and boost your inspiration as you go through these powerful affirmations. You can’t go wrong with Affirming Her Power by Addie Ola. The author brings a fresh way to create and adopt new beliefs, with a collection of masterfully written affirmations that will make you reduce your stress and anxiety levels, feel happier, smile more, and even change your perspective on the world around you.

Being a woman is not easy, but being a Black woman comes with its own set of challenges. Somewhere along the way, society decided that the Black woman was less than. But this could not be further from the truth. The Black woman is a force to be reckoned with, and it is time that all Black women realized their true beauty and power. This audiobook contains 300 positive affirmations to help encourage the Black woman to be who she was created to be. Bold. Powerful. Strong. Courageous. Beautiful.

If a breakup or divorce has drained your confidence and shattered your self-esteem, this book is for you. Written by a clinical psychologist and expert in women's health, Who Am I Without You? will help you work through your heartache, rediscover your self-worth, and learn to live and love again.

Self-love can change your life—and starting that practice of self-love in your teens can truly change the game. When we flip the script on negative self-talk, limiting beliefs and self-doubt, we can change the course of our lives. Self-love is that powerful.

One of the secrets of a great marriage is laughing together. Couples don't need to choose between work and play, duty and fun, laughter and responsibility. This book will help couples learn how to use fun, humor, and laughter to lighten the load of everyday life, reduce stress, and grow closer together.

Do you practice self-love to give yourself the happiness you deserve? Have you been damaged by a previous relationship and need rebuild the way you feel about yourself? Do you believe that in order to love someone else you should be able to love yourself first? Self-love is one of those things that divides people. On the one hand some believe that it’s important for our own happiness and mental wellbeing to love ourselves first and foremost. For others, they see it as a moral flaw in a person.

Do you ever look at people who are successful, healthy, and happy and wonder what their secret is? Why you can't be like that? After more than a decade-long struggle with emotional eating, depression, and low self-esteem, I realized that the reason I couldn't be happy like the people I envied was that I didn't love myself. For me, developing self-love has been profoundly healing. I can hardly believe how effortless it has been for me to quit overeating, exercise daily, attract a loving relationship, and more.