Staying Alive is Not Enough

There is no way around it, no matter who tells you that the U.S. has an epidemic of whatever it might, or that you need a diet or blah, blah, blah, it is all nonsense if we do not start at the beginning.
Loving and respecting myself enough to sit down and look at what was important for me in life was the very first step.
Take good care of yourself.
I know it may sound silly but I followed Louise Hay’s exercise of looking at myself in the mirror and saying “I love you” to my own image.
At first it felt silly, almost like a wrestling match, you know why? because I did not believe it.
But a few weeks into it I did start to believe in it, and it helped, it was the first step in establishing the most important love affair needed, the one with ourselves.
— Claudia Altucher