I Love Me Yeah Yeah Yeah

I once associated loving myself with narcism. Feeling humble seemed the opposite of loving me. Instead, I have learned that loving myself has to come before loving anyone else. I can't give away what I don't have.

Poor self-image is one of those character defects that leads to drinking and alcoholism.

From The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns (https://feelinggood.com/): "But changing the way you feel is only one of our goals. The other goal is self-acceptance. I want you to learn to accept and love yourself as a flawed and imperfect human. I want you to accept your strengths as well as your weaknesses without a sense of shame or embarrassment."

And this from Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch (http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/) : "You must see your Self as worthy before you can see another as worthy. You must first see your Self as blessed before you can see another as blessed. You must first know your Self to be holy before you can acknowledge holiness in another."

In my case, I fell out of love with myself when several important components of my life came crashing down. With so much bad happening to me, there's no way I could or should love myself, I reasoned. Fortunately that has changed.

I now am in love with this Self that God created. I no longer have to drown my Self in alcohol in an attempt to escape me.