True self-love is the gateway drug to emotional freedom.

Why are we so timid about self-love?

Self-love is not selfish, any more than self-feeding and self-exercise and self-hydration and self-education and self-leadership.

It’s not narcissism. It’s not arrogance. Love isn’t a zero sum game; loving yourself more doesn’t take anything away from anyone else.

To love one’s self is the precursor to trust and intimacy with others, the headwaters of the love we’ll show them.

When is the last time you felt overwhelmed by your own love and respect: the rich warmth and deep reassurance and joyful confidence of someone who knows you intimately… who sees your pure motives poorly performed, your imperfect struggles to do what is right, your private successes hard won… and truly appreciates all of that, and respects you for it?

What if a healthy, intentional focus on self-love is the fastest path to personal transformation – to becoming the healthy, strong, whole-hearted person you are meant to be?

What if the limit to which we can ever experience the love of others… is set by the depth to which we experience our own self-love?