The person you will spend the most time with in your life is you, and that’s why it’s of utmost importance that you learn to care for, accept, and love yourself first and foremost. It’s much more difficult than it sounds, because we’re often our own worst critic, bully, and abuser. If we want to be loved—both by ourselves and others—we must make ourselves lovable. And we become lovable when we heal the parts of ourselves that we’re ashamed of or that we think are embarrassing or unlovable.