This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

It is so often said that self-love is the key to mental and emotional wellness and to have healthy relationships.

We need to love ourselves first.

But what does that actually mean? And how does one actually go about loving themselves

in healthy and appropriate and meaningful ways? That is what we're talking about on today's show.

And I'm so glad you're here for this important conversation.

We are enjoying the delightful Minnie Ripperton. The song is called Le Fleur from the album,

Come to My Garden. I like Minnie Ripperton, and I think you will too.

You can learn more about her on her bandcamp page, mineryurton.

Bancamp.com.

She spells her name like Minnie Mouse, M-I-N-N-N-I-E.

Minnie Riperton.com. Check it out.

And I chose this song because she's, I don't know, when I hear it, it's like she's inviting

someone else into this beautiful garden, this gorgeous space that is hers.

She has developed and cultivated it. And self-love is

really like that. It is what we are doing within ourselves, for ourselves, that we can then

share potentially with other people.

And this is a really important concept.

And I actually originally recorded this podcast on this topic many years ago.

It was actually one of the first ones I did when I was launching my podcast because it was so

fundamentally important. And then my process has improved since then. And I was like,

you know what? This is probably worth re-recording and expanding on because it's really like

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