Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode, we are going to talk about developing

self-respect.

More to come on that in a moment.

Next, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay.

Self-respect.

Now, I said we're going to talk about developing self-respect, but really, we can look at this

as reestablishing self-respect, because I think self-respect is less about something you cultivate

and more about regaining something that is slowly lost over time, or this is just a working

theory at least.

So we'll get more into that.

But the idea of feeling a sense of self-respect and the importance of that from my perspective

is that it's one of the most important factors for experiencing deep contentment.

I've talked about this in relationship to integrity as well.

When we respect ourselves, there's a certain comfort we feel in our own skin, and a sense

of being proud to be who we are, not in an arrogant way, but in an appreciative way,

in a peaceful way.

We can rest in our own being rather than feeling resistant to ourselves.

So self-respect is not something to just be taken lightly.

I do see it on the same level and with lots of overlaps to integrity.

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