(Rewind): How To Love Ourselves Like It's Our Job (with Lindsey Sterling)

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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I truly loved this conversation my friend @lindseystirling .

So often in life we’re told how important it is to love ourselves without any explanation of what that actually means or how to practically apply that advice.

If you’ve ever found yourself struggling with this concept, one practical tool is to recognize how we love other really important people in our lives.

Our parents, children, siblings, nieces, nephews, old friends . . . our love for them doesn't have anything to do with whether they have a good day or a bad day today. We love them because they’re ours, even though they can sometimes be difficult or don't always realize their potential.

And that’s how we have to start viewing ourselves. We don’t need to find all of these amazing things about ourselves to start valuing ourselves more.

We love ourselves because we’re ours. WE are the ones responsible for looking after us. Love yourself like it's your job; because it IS.

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0:00.0	...
0:13.7	Hey everybody, it's Matthew Hussey with the Love Life podcast. I'm excited to share this
0:33.3	clip with you today. Let's get into it.
0:39.8	One thing you say over and over again is I think it's being a woman of high value or a man of high value.
0:46.0	Like living your life knowing that your value is infinite and amazing and you're special.
0:54.8	And you know as Paris Hilton say, walk as if you have a TR on your head.
0:58.0	You know just like I think that's a really important point to remember.
1:03.2	And you know no one needs to start by trying to find all of these amazing things about themselves
1:09.5	to start valuing themselves more. You know the one of the keys to self love is actually to recognize
1:18.3	how we come to love other really important people in our lives. If you imagine you know,
1:26.4	Lindsay, do you have do you have siblings? I do. And are you close? Yes very close.
1:34.1	When you think of your love for your siblings, is it anything to do with whether they have a good day
1:42.2	or a bad day today? Yeah you're right now not at all. It's just you just love them because they're yours.
1:50.4	You know, well that's my brother, that's my sister. You know you just you just love them
1:57.2	because they're yours and because you know it's like these are my people and I think the same
2:04.0	way when it comes to ourselves, we don't have to try to conjure up all of the impressive things
2:10.7	about ourselves in order to love ourselves. And if you do, then it's actually it's actually
2:15.9	dangerous because what if today you don't do any of those things that make you impressive? What if
2:21.8	today you get a C in in your life grade? You know and you're going to now finish today and go,
2:29.1	I'm worthless today because I wasn't impressive in all the ways that I have to justify loving
2:33.7	myself by. Instead what we have to say is I am responsible for me. In the same way that if someone
2:40.8	has a child, you're responsible for that child, we are the child we are responsible for. And that
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