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feels the most loving and authentic to you). Write about your experience in
your journal.
You have been criticising yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try
approving of yourself and see what happens. – Louise L. Hay
The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-
abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an
image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.
Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don’t
accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way
they are. – Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
–And I said to my body, softly, “I want to be your friend.” It took a long breath
and replied, “I have been waiting my whole life for this.” – Nayyirah Waheed
‘Self-love,’ ‘self-respect,’ ‘self-worth’; There is a reason they all start
with “self.” You can not find them in anyone else. – Unknown
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Jack
Kornfield
Aletheia Luna
is an influential psychospiritual writer whose work has
changed the lives of thousands of people worldwide,
she is currently based in Perth, Australia. After
escaping the religious sect she was raised in, Luna
experienced a profound existential crisis that led to
her spiritual awakening. As a spiritual counselor and
author, Luna's mission is to help others become
conscious of their entrapment and find joy,
empowerment, and liberation in any circumstance.