I am on a personal journey toward self-love and authenticity. There are both challenges and rewards for choosing to love oneself. Personally, I can recall many of my attempts to fit in and discover who I truly am, from childhood through adulthood, and it is through kindness, simplicity, and embracing my true self that I’ve learned to laugh at my imperfections and celebrate my uniqueness. The message is clear: the path to self-love is ongoing, filled with self-discovery, and ultimately, deeply rewarding.
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LOVED THIS!!!
Loving the “bad” self …YES!!! embracing all that is less than angelic seems a very good idea. But don’t forget to celebrate the “good”.
I try to foster self awareness of those “bad” parts…..parts, that I regret, feel embarrassment, foolishness, view as less than tolerant, mean, rude etc.
Self-love embraces acceptance, grace and prompts our making amends when needed.
I find loving oneself even fosters a good laugh, sometimes. . . a recognition of, “yes”, I am flawed for better or worse, because there is no escaping this wonderful, surprising exciting gift of our human condition.
The Dalai Lama says: “I was at an interfaith meeting in India where the question ‘What is the self?’ was posed. Here we arrive at the real demarcation between Buddhist and non-Buddhist thought.
Oscar Wilde as a philosopher of selfhood? What about Donald Trump?
In contemporary psychological terms both philosophers could be seen as narcissistic personalities? No?
Children get much, if not all, of their self-sense from their parents. Or do you disagree?