How to love self

"I'm not the kind of person to usually love themselves. I was raised by a perfectionist guardian, which ended up with me growing into someone who usually puts others before themselves. Recently, my mother has died, and my mental state has taken a major spiraling. Luckily, because I'm only 16, I can stop this now and learn to love myself and eventually sprout into something more healthy and stable. I'm going to practice a large amount of these in the near future."

"I was having a bad day. First my business got shut down. Then my friends said another friend of mine hated me. It was rainy, so it just made everything worse. I got home and wanted to read something, so I went to wikiHow and browsed. I came across this article and read it. It made me rethink my whole day as just a little bump in the road. This really helped, wikiHow, you guys should be proud."

"This article was very reliable and it made me feel a lot more confident about myself. This article made me feel as if it was me and it knew everything that was going on with me. Trust me, if your confidence is low and you need advice, read this article."

"While this is nothing new, it is the truth and if you are a person looking for something new, you'll be waiting a long time. The only real way to deal with this issue is to go over this stuff every day. I am glad I see that now and I hope you will too."

"This article helped me see that I should break off relationships with the toxic "friends" I used to surround myself with. They made me hate myself and my body and everything about myself. Now that they are gone, I can start on my journey to self love."

"All of the information was helpful. My life has become more positive and I am more confident in most things I do. The best part is that when you change your thinking from negative to positive, the people around you start to change as well."

"It was great! I started reading this last summer when I was really insecure, but by the end of the school year I was totally comfortable in my own skin and also made a lot of new friends! This is great and I recommend it to everyone!"

"Our setbacks come from very young ages. When I was a baby, I was living in a public nursery, and now I am so afraid to negotiate the buying of a house, as if my subconscious is telling me that I do not deserve a home of my own."

"I now know how to start, thanks to this article. Before I was baffled by other advice, which was mainly just people telling me to love myself, but not telling how I could. Excellent advice and gives me a direction to head in."

"I made an audio search ("How to play violin without a violin") and Google thought I said "How to love yourself." I said, "Why not?" Here I am, and this is just what I needed to read. Thank you, wikiHow!"

"My favorite part of all wikiHows are the visuals, which give me a better sense of what you're saying. Learning to understand self love and avoiding all negativity in your life was the most helpful for me."

"It was very helpful that I found such an inspiring article. I'm still learning from this, I know I'm making progress. Thanks to everyone and I hope you all also love yourselves."

"I am very glad that there is something like this there to help us. It has really helped me a lot. I can now say I have learn to love my self without fear. Thank you very much!"

"The knowledge and reminder that I am not alone in my struggle, and that I don't have to let my negative self-perception and that of others control my entire life helped."

"I feel that I am lovable by reading the affirmations. I need to be hugged, something I did not grow up with and has created intestinal problems because of this lack."

"I always rewarded myself (as simple as shoulder tapping) after doing something good for myself or others. To be good to others I need to care for my feelings first."

"This really helped me rethink and stop my journey to bring what other people wanted me to be, and changed it to be a journey of finding and appreciating myself."

"How to start loving yourself and turn negative thoughts into positive or neutral thoughts. How affirmations help change an individual to become a better person."

"This article helped me realize I should learn to love myself for who I am, accept myself, and practice by repeating the positive things I have within myself. "

"I realized that to reach perfect goals and just not quite get it perfect was driving me to dislike myself. I have to give myself a break as well as others."

"It made me feel less alone knowing that so many people have this same concern and it gives me confidence that we all can be the best us we can be. "

"It taught me the basic feeling that one should love oneself. I have never in my life loved my own self, and didn't even know how. Thanks."

"I am still trying to improve my inner voice, and this is helping me so much. I also want to know how to remove nervousness toward studies."

"You really helped me to think about more positive thoughts and ideas to make my life more valuable and peaceful. Thank you! Keep it up!"

"I realized that how much I was blessed after reading it. From now on, I will try to think positively and thank God for what I have."

"Concise and very helpful, effective actions. Whole books are written on this subject, but this gets straight to the point. Thanks."

"The article covered the most important points about self-love and how to overcome most every aspects of the subject. Thank you."

"It is very motivating to improve yourself. I just want to be a that kind of person, and it helps me to think like that."

"It was about how to have positive affirmation, even about the person who is inducing negativity in you. That helped me."

"I have to learn to forgive and to love myself. Those are things that may take the rest of my life to accomplish."