Because we are getting to know ourselves as sources of love, we might become very good at providing love, while forgetting how it feels to receive. My therapist once told me that receiving love is just as important as giving it, and that I needed to honor my role as both provider and recipient. I need to engage in a reciprocal exchange of love where I no longer erase myself from the equation. It was profound when I used bell hooks’s six ingredients of love as a guideline to ask myself: Do I show care and respect toward myself? Do I trust myself, and do I commit to treating myself with kindness
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