What is self-love?

Dorothee Marossero
2 min readNov 5, 2021

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Self-love is the permission you give to yourself to truly accept every parts of you.

Self-love is accepting the parts of you that your inner critic judges to be “not good enough”.

Self-love is releasing the judgment of yourself.

Self-love is observing your inner critic with curiosity and compassion.

Self-love is holding your wounded inner child when she or he comes up.

Self-love is being kind to yourself when things don’t go like planned.

Self-love is not giving your inner-powers away to others.

Self-love is understanding the nature of human kind, that people act and love at their level of consciousness. And you do too.

Self-love is releasing the judgment you hold on others.

Self-love is the willingness to forgive yourself and others.

Self-love is not forcing the process.

Self-love is speaking your truth with love and compassion.

Self-love is being kind to yourself when you can’t.

Self-love is listening to yourself, your emotions, your needs.

Self-love is asking for help if you need some.

Self-love is nourishing your body with wholesome food from the earth.

Self-love is moving your body in mindful joyful ways.

Self-love is resting when your body is tired.

Self-love is being kind to yourself when none of this is true right now.

Self-love is seeing your darknesses and your lights.

Self-love is accepting both.

Self-love is feeling grateful for what you have while respecting your desires for growth.

Self-love is doing the things that energise you.

Self-love is knowing when to say no to things that do not.

Self-love is giving yourself permission to receive and give love.

Self-love is sharing your gifts and voice to the world as you know that who you are matter, and what you have to share matters.

Self-love is being patient with yourself in the process of self-healing, knowing that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

Self-love is knowing that this too shall pass.

Self-love shines. Self-love transforms the world around you in a ripple effect that can’t be denied. Self-love wraps your children, partner, family, and friends with a warmth that will transform them too.

What is standing between you and love?

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Dorothee Marossero

Transformational coach, International Yoga teacher and Reiki practitioner. I believe to heal we need to reconnect to our bodies, our emotions, our natural self.