#294: How To Like Yourself (And Why You Should)

Should you like yourself? In this honest post, I share how to distinguish between self-like and self-obsessing and why learning to love yourself matters.

There are some, perhaps even Biblical assumptions, that all humans love themselves and potentially a little too much. But I still questioned, does loving yourself mean liking yourself? Or does a dislike for yourself take self-love and turn it into a self-idol?

There's no doubt the world is fascinated with self. We're all concerned with who we are, what we are, and what we're trying to become. We quickly get so wrapped up in ourselves that we put ourselves on a pedestal of judgment or praise. We make life all about ourselves, which might be why you don't like yourself.

Not because self-like is selfish but because our self-worship shines a spotlight on ourselves, leaving plenty of room, time, and energy to judge ourselves. We can't help but see our flaws, which leaves us self-protecting and often self-worshiping. But it's not because we actually like ourselves (or even love ourselves) but the opposite, because we don't.

I know it sounds crazy, but I think it's more true to say that we're a self-worshipping kind of people, not because we like ourselves but because we don't. And if we could embrace true self-like, it would allow us to invest more in others because we already have what we need.

The problem is, this becomes confusing to the naked eye because we're good at masking self-hate in things like self-care and calling it self-love.

Inside this podcast, I invited my husband Payton to come on and discuss how to like yourself and why you might be acting in self-hate more than you realized.

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