Hello and

in today's

in today 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.

First, 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 re-establishing 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 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.

Now there are a lot of reasons why we might lose respect for ourselves.

And some of these are out of our control. For instance, when we were young, our family or social circle may have encouraged us to think and speak or act in ways that didn't feel

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