Your 10-Step Guide for Building Healthy Self-Love

10 powerful habits to implement today.

We’ve all heard it before: The term “self-love.” But how many of us understand what it truly means? Or how it really feels?

Loving yourself is simpler than it seems. It’s reflected in your daily actions and habits, the standards you set for yourself, and the treatment you accept — both from you, and from others.

Let’s explore what self-love really looks (and feels) like to the ones who practice it.

1: Practice positive self-talk.

I believe that self-talk is one of the most important pieces in the self-love puzzle. It’s exactly what it sounds like: How you choose to talk to yourself.

I once had a private client who used to say: “I always date men who are bad for me!” By doing so, she was reinforcing the internal narrative that…well…she always dates men who are bad for her.

Not surprisingly, the pattern would continue.

Eventually, we worked together to rewrite the story. She’d stop herself when having these (or similar) thoughts, and would consider how to reword them.

“I used to date men who were bad for me.”