Is loving yourself conceited?

So my thoughts this week- when my friend Debbie talked about loving herself she thought it was being conceited, it made me wonder so I decided to look up conceited. Here is what I found.

“Loving yourself isn’t conceited or narcissistic; it’s actually knowing your self-worth. It’s love. Love means acceptance, and caring about yourself doesn’t mean thinking you’re better than others.”

To love yourself is to appreciate yourself in all your glory, goodness, mistakes, failures, shapes and sizes. Being in love with yourself is not about strutting your thang down the main strip to let everyone know you’re awesome. Self love is humble because it only matters to YOU!

Loving yourself means to take care of YOU.

So how do you love yourself without feeling conceited? Think about someone you love right now. You take care of them. You make sure they know you love them, you show them in one way or another. You need to do that for yourself too. Here are few ways to start:

1st- Nourish your body with real food. This one hard for me because I do love food and I really love the sweets, but i’m working on that. Food helps me to feel loved, but i’m trying to start loving myself with good healthy foods more.
2nd- Move your body with love. You must find things to do that you love, I really hate exercising and I don’t know why! I do love to walk though and I don’t do it enough so another thing that I’m going to do is try to be better about walking more.
3nd- Use loving words. To show loved ones you love them you tell them how amazing they are and you do things for them- do the same for yourself. Make sure you use words of love with yourself and that you tell yourself everyday, even when you feel uncomfortable positive things. You WILL start to believe it. Fake it until you make it!
4th- Stress less. You need a time out. A high level of stress all the time isn’t good for your body, mind or spirit. It’s also not good for anyone around you, so you need ways to energize yourself. I have come up with ways for me to energize myself, you need to find those too. I’m going to take time everyday, at least 15 minutes because life can get in the way! I’m setting time aside in my day to do what I know will give me the energizing I need. Here are a few that I have started, that maybe you could try as well. A small walk, a few minutes to read a book I’ve been trying to start, a nice talk with my family or friends. I’m going to do one or more of these everyday, everyday and everyday!

I encourage you to come up with a few things that you can do for yourself that you love to do and start doing them. Put it on the calendar and make 15 minutes non-negotiable and FEEL the difference!

Show yourself some SELF-LOVE It’s not conceited, its essential.

How will you show love for yourself? Please share and comment I love to hear from you.

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