Learning to Love Yourself When You Didn’t Feel Loved at Home
🌼 “Self-love isn’t about perfection—it’s about meeting yourself with compassion on the days when worth feels hardest to believe.” When love feels absent in childhood, it can leave a deep ache. You may find yourself questioning your worth, wondering why you weren’t enough to be cherished. These feelings are real, but they are not the truth of who you are. Love withheld from you says more about those who could not give it than about your value as a person. The first step toward self-love is recognizing that you are worthy simply because you exist. Your worth is not earned—it is inherent. Even if the people who raised you failed to affirm that truth, you can learn to establish it for yourself now. Start by speaking gentle words to yourself each morning: “I am worthy of love. I am enough as I am.” These words may feel strange at first, but with time, they will begin to settle in your heart. Consider Mariam, a young woman who grew up in a household filled with harsh words and litt...