Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you

to prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,

Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women

all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.

Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them with

tools to find healing. And today I'm so excited we have Kimberly Christensen, who is the chief

content officer of promptly journals. And they just launched a new self-love journal.

That is amazing. I received mine, and I absolutely love it. So welcome to the show, Kimberly.

Thank you. It's so fun to be here. Thank you for having me.

You're welcome. What is your question for me today? Okay. So I want to talk about the

difference between self-love and narcissism and selfishness because I am a huge proponent of self-love.

And as I've learned about it and started to practice it, I felt really empowered and amazing. and it's so cool. But I am so blurry on

that line between, okay, but at what point am I just being selfish? You know what I mean? So it's

complicated to navigate because I want to have boundaries and I want to look after myself and I want

to, you know, practice self-care and self-love,

but I'm not always clear on how to still show up for others and put them first, you know,

when or if necessary. And yeah, yeah, I feel like self-love can sometimes come across as

selfish. And I would just love to explore some situations or reactions that,

you know, where self-love crosses that line and becomes selfishness or, you know,

how do I navigate that and figure out how to embrace self-love without being selfish?

Gotcha. Okay. So do you have a specific situation where you're kind of wrestling with this line?

Yeah. I guess I'm going to have to think about this for a minute. I should have prepared a

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