The key to your healthy relationships

The key to a successful romantic relationship lies in your relationship with yourself. If you take the time to invest in your self-development, to get to know and understand yourself on a deeper level, you are most likely to either be content alone or to seek fulfilling romance.

Strong bonds are not based on your intelligence or how you try to fix a partner or others. Chances of strong bonds are increased when you strengthen your self-relationship. With a sense of self, you are able to assert your values or boundaries, which creates safety in your circles.

You learn self-parenting, to strengthen your sense of self which helps you treat yourself and others with trust, compassion and respect. How you feel about yourself is reflected in how you treat yourself first and also others. How you feel about yourself is show by how you respond to the world around you.

Your self-relationship relies on your belief in your self-worth. Self-worth is not lip service. It is not as simple as just saying, " I love me!"

A belief in your self-worth depends on doing something to maintain your credibility. In doing this , you recognise that your worthiness is not dependent on anyone or anything.

It sounds like a scam , but there is nothing extraordinary I am going to share with you that you need to do to learn self-love. Some people are looking for a well articulated read, with eloquently punctuntuated explanations. Not today. Not ever.

Self-love is simply a version of parenting that you practice daily for yourself. This is similar to what you do for a child, in order to feel safe, loved and accepted for who they are. Self-love addresses your mind , your body and your spirit. Once you have aligned these three, you will be able to empower your connection with others. Any question you might have have is simply answered by addressing these four dimensions of existence.

Know yourself - Accept your traumas, weaknesses and strengths.

Heal your inner child.

Love yourself with five love languages and five senses.

Develop your decision making ability and act with unconditional positive self-regard.

Practices

Practice - Morning gratitude

Meditation

Affirmations

Deep breathing.

Touch and hug your inner child and speak kindly to yourself.

Set an intention before you get out of bed or talk to anyone.

Invest in your health and well-being. Eat healthy and exercise.

Create to nurture the child in you.

Learn to regulate emotions and refrane your thoughts and also to make decisions in your best interest. This makes you feel safe.

Your ability to manage and regulate yourself is the basis of the outcome of your interaction with others.

Boundaries.

Bedtime reflection to learn from your day.

This SIFTSEM toolkit can help you learn self-love in order to strengthen your self-relationship, and therefore your other relationships.

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