Love Yourself First

On Valentine's Day, who better to love than yourself?
Check out his article on self-love in the current GOOP magazine.

I think this excerpt rings so true -
I believe it is uncontained emotion that holds the secret to healing all chronic diseases, especially for women. From an early age, parents inadvertently teach girls to deny their feelings in order to please others, and then the media convinces them to hate their bodies in subtle and insidious ways. Later in life, we put them in a catch-22: If they stay home to raise their children, they're holding themselves back, but if they choose work, they're absentee mothers. We're constantly putting women up against standards they can't possibly meet. When you can't be the ideal wife, mother, girlfriend, teacher, cook, church volunteer, corporate executive and activist at 20 pounds below your healthy body weight, what's left but to silently (and subconsciously) hate yourself because you're not perfect?

Read the full article. 

I, like so many other women, suffer from not being perfect enough or harsh self-judgment. How refreshing to be able to accept that whatever it is what we do, that it is the BEST we can do at that moment in time.

Acceptance of who we are.

Being present in the current moment.

Forgiving all who don't reach the perfection pinnacle, including ourselves.

These should be our goals in life.