People don’t want to hear this part but it’s the answer to everything.

If you have never been given the love you deserve— YOU HAVE TO GIVE IT TO YOURSELF! You have to actually research what love is and make a plan to do better in loving yourself every single day.

You have to make a commitment to love yourself, prioritize yourself, speak kind to yourself, give yourself grace, do nice things for yourself, hold yourself accountable EVERYDAY.

You have to give your body what it needs and what it wants. You have to listen to it and respond with love. Then and only then will you recognize when someone wants to treat you in the same regard. When they treat you the way you treat you.

And truth is a lot of us don’t treat ourselves correctly. We eat wrong, stay up all night, say mean things about ourselves, don’t do the things we say we are going to do and as a result we don’t trust ourselves.

Discipline is the HIGHEST form of self-love. You can see if you’ve ever been in a relationship that it takes a lot of discipline to hold that person in high regard on a daily basis. How can we do this for others if we don’t do it for ourselves?