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 mascara and in today's episode we're going to talk about the importance of self-love

More to come on that in a moment first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells

Okay, so I am a strong believer that a life well-lived with fulfillment, happiness, resilience

is a life that has some degree of self-love and self-compassion

and the reason for this is that at the end of the day we do have to navigate our experience

ourselves. I've said this in the past but you can have great friends, support, family, you can have an incredibly fortunate and privileged life

and still have to navigate your own thoughts, your own emotions, your own pains

and eventually your own transition from this life

and that is a big journey for anyone, it's never just a walk in the park

and what is often the case is that we can spend a lot of time rearranging our external world

or many people focus primarily on arranging the external world

even arranging our support systems in a really powerful and good way, all of which is useful

but don't work as much on rearranging our internal world and how we relate to ourselves

and then so many things can fall in place and yet there's still a harsh inner critic

there's holding yourself to a high standard but in a way that is if you don't achieve this

you're not good enough, you're not worthy

so this is a whole other level of tension and suffering that is created just through how we're relating to ourselves

and it tends to show up more in the difficult moments where we become our own worse enemy

and it's usually not us, it's well that voice is an internalized voice of someone else, the parent, childhood bully, whoever it might be

the point is it is coming from our particular ego structure in that moment

and it can cause a tremendous amount of suffering, I don't think this is foreign to anyone

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