Love Yourself

…First - that is the key to a happy relationship.

Have you been struggling with putting yourself first in your relationship or marriage? Has it been a long time since you have shown yourself compassion and care?

If you have been feeling anxious and restless trying to fulfill everyone’s needs while ignoring your own, it might be time to discover what’s holding you back and finally make those plans to move powerfully forward.

Because that - self-love - is what exactly determines how happy you will be in your relationship or marriage.

Self-love has nothing to do with being boastful, full of ourselves, selfish, narcissistic or arrogant. It is about having regard for our own well-being. Being able to look at ourselves and appreciate our good qualities, forgive our mistakes, laugh at our bloopers and generally speaking treat ourselves nicely.

In other words, loving ourselves is just like loving anyone else. So how do we build self-love?

FAMOUS FOUR

There are four core elements that can help us build self-love:

Trust: Do you trust yourself to make good decisions? Do you trust yourself to keep your word when you give it? What about when you give it to yourself instead of other people? Is it

If you haven’t followed through on promises you made to yourself in a long time, don’t make a huge promise now. Start with a tiny one.okay to let yourself down as long as you always keep your word to others? Why or why not?

If you have been working too hard, make a promise to take a 10-minute break, stretch, and drink some water. If you always leave work late, make a promise to leave half-an-hour earlier once a week. Start with the smallest decision you can make and keep it. Then make another one.

Empathy:

It is the ability to understand your own feelings and thoughts.