The Tyranny Of Self-Love Culture

In this week’s episode of You Are Infinitely Loved, we’re talking about what it’s like when you’re constantly surrounded by messages of self-love and you feel like you’re not doing it ‘right’, that you’re not being self-loving enough, that you should be doing things to improve the relationship you have with yourself, but you’re not and then you beat yourself up for not making the changes you want to make. Yes, that’s right, even the world of self-love can become tyrannical.

We talk about how you can be more gentle in your approach to self-love, and what to do when you’re not in a good space and even though you know all the tools, you have no motivation to actually practice the tools. We talk about depression and the very real impacts it can have on your life and how you cannot self-care your way out of mental illness.

We discuss social media and the fairly narrow and one-dimensional representation of self-love messages that’s common to see in your feeds. We believe that we need to have a multi-dimensional view of a topic that is incredibly broad and deep. Sam goes through her 10 components of self-love and we talk about how you can begin to identify which of these 10 components you’re doing well in, and which of them might need a little work.

And finally, we talk about why self-compassion is the foundation of self-love and why we believe this is the most important component that you can build in your life.