Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

by Zachary Levi

What they gave me was vital and necessary to my healing process. But because of the clinical and professional barriers, they couldn’t show me love, which was a massive part of what I needed. To be loved. To be shown love. To be guided into the understanding that I am worthy of loving myself. Beth was tuned into God and understood that. Then she made herself available to be the instrument that God used to help me see and feel that more clearly. I think a lot of people go and get treatment, and the reason their treatment doesn’t ultimately hold is because they leave there learning a lot and knowing a lot but still feeling like a piece of shit. They don’t have a person to hold them and say, “You’re loved. You’re worthy of love.” That was certainly the case for me. My deepest ailments, my inability to love myself, my inability to recognize my own self-worth, could only be fixed with love, by another human being loving me in order to show me the way to loving myself.