Staying Positive [ miniseries lesson book ]

lesson two: learn to love yourself

lesson two: learn to love yourself
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"I am mine before I am ever anyone else's."

loving yourself is very important. keeping a positive attitude about yourself is key to staying positive.

and i know you've probably heard the saying "love yourself before you love someone else", and that's really very true, because loving someone else will be harder if you don't accept yourself.

learning to love yourself may be harder than loving someone else, but you can do it.

key tips to loving yourself:

• treat yourself - do the things you love for yourself, not because someone wants you to. if you want to eat a whole roll of cookie dough, go for it!

• accept your flaws - you are beautiful, and you must tell yourself that every day. stretch marks? bitch please, they're tiger stripes.

• believe in yourself - once you've destroyed the doubt, you can do basically anything, i swear.

• forgive yourself - making peace with yourself is hard, but it's a way to stay positive

• praise yourself / support yourself - tell yourself that you did a good job!  congratulate yourself!  praise yourself instead of bashing yourself.

• take care of yourself - don't hurt yourself.  take a warm bath.  wash your face in the morning! (it helps to wake you up, and it helps to keep your face clean, which reduces acne!)

• do the things that make you happy - again, do it for yourself. read. write. paint. sing. join a fandom!

surround yourself with positive people! seriously, they don't even have to be in the flesh, like i'm always here to talk to. joining a fandom (again) may be the best thing you can do if you're a loser in real life like me, because in a fandom, we're all the same and accept each other.

we're all winners together okay.

-katie xo