Loving yourself is a life journey and goal that starts with self-knowledge (see Chapter 9). It’s the core of recovery and rewards you with enormous benefits — increased self-esteem, peace, well-being, health, and loving relationships with others. You can consider it a spiritual practice because it requires awareness, reverence, and kindness toward yourself as one of God’s creations. Loving yourself for ten minutes a day is a good start, but it’s an ongoing process. You have opportunities to do so throughout the day — often moment to moment — in your actions and the way you listen and speak to
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