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Self-Love: You cannot love someone else until you learn to love yourself.

#Self-awareness #Self-worth #Self-Care #Self-Worth Most of us know what it is but do not understand what it is. You eat because you understand that you need nourishment. It is very sad that most of us are trying to conquer external battles like finding love, finding success, finding  happiness  and yet we do not understand that self-love is the root from which everything grows. It is because of the lack of self-love that we have many social conflicts in the world. How can we love the next person effectively before we have learned to love ourselves unconditionally? When you love yourself conditionally, you cannot love another unconditionally because why give someone else something you do not have? Our understanding of self-love is learned during  childhood  from those that cared for us. In most cases, it is taught unconsciously, we just got a glimpse from watching those that nurtured us.  Self-Love is more than just wearing nice attire and applying bouts of expensive makeup and

Self-Love: You cannot love someone else until you learn to love yourself.

#Self-awareness #Self-worth #Self-Care #Self-Worth Most of us know what it is but do not understand what it is. You eat because you understand that you need nourishment. It is very sad that most of us are trying to conquer external battles like finding love, finding success, finding  happiness  and yet we do not understand that self-love is the root from which everything grows. It is because of the lack of self-love that we have many social conflicts in the world. How can we love the next person effectively before we have learned to love ourselves unconditionally? When you love yourself conditionally, you cannot love another unconditionally because why give someone else something you do not have? Our understanding of self-love is learned during  childhood  from those that cared for us. In most cases, it is taught unconsciously, we just got a glimpse from watching those that nurtured us.  Self-Love is more than just wearing nice attire and applying bouts of expensive makeup a

Beyond the Cliff | Laura van Dernoot Lipsky -Watch this Video, if you are in a profession that is about caring for others.

#LauravanDernootLipsky # TraumaStewardship #V icarioustrauma #Self-Care Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of the Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of T rauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others. She has worked directly with trauma survivors for 28 years, including survivors of  Laura van Dernoot Lipsky  , and acute trauma of all kinds, and natural disasters. Laura has been active in community organizing and movements for social and environmental justice and has taught on issues surrounding systematic oppression and liberation theory. Trauma Stewardship: How do we reduce clinician burnout? What helps people develop resiliency so that the important work they do in the world isn’t hindered by vicarious trauma and their own lack of self-care? The cumulative aspect of ongoing exposure to suffering and trauma is largely ignored in health care, criminal justice, and other fields. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky believ