3 Times Your Self-Love is Actually Self-Harm in Disguise
Science-backed ways to identify and stop self-sabotage disguised as “self-love” in Millennials and Gen-Zs.
It’s easy to say you love yourself.
It’s difficult to practice self-love without understanding its true meaning.
Social media portrays self-love as a necessity, as this warm fuzzy feeling every person needs to experience every day. But most often, we tend to overlook the most important aspect of self-love: it’s okay to not love all parts of yourself all the time.
You don’t have to love your acne marks, your messed up sleep cycle, or the fact that you recently fell out of the friendship you thought would last forever. More than that, it’s important to accept these flaws and learn to live with them.
As Shannon Tillett writes in Thought Catalog, “Self-love should be viewed as loving yourself at your own pace, for your own reasons. It should be feeling confident, embracing your weirdness and striving to be happy.”
Aside from this very important distinction, there are several instances when your self-love could actually be self-sabotage in disguise. This post lists three such examples backed by science where your self-love is actually causing you…
