Lessons in love

Science says self-love is a superpower, so why aren’t more of us practising it?

Words CHARLIE HALE

If you have ever stood in front of a mirror and told your reflection you love them, you might be familiar with the sense of idiocy that washed over me as I faced my bathroom mirror, searching for a scrap of authenticity in the words I had just spoken. If only self-love were that easy. The words felt contrived, and not at all “me”. I wanted to love myself, but I probably wasn’t going to find it within some cookie-cutter wellbeing exercise. Self-love is perhaps the greatest love of all, but it’s also the hardest. I have never been good at it. My inadequacies shine bright and, more often than not, I view my achievements as simply what needed to be done. Yes, woe is me. And yet I don’t know many…

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