Not Loving Yourself Was Never Your Fault. But Loving Yourself Now Is Your Power.

You didn’t wake up one day and decide to hate yourself. That was passed down. Shaped. Reinforced. It came from the way love was given or withheld. From the way your body was talked about. From the way your emotions were dismissed. From all the moments you were told you were too much or not enough.

So much of your inner voice wasn’t born from truth. It was born from conditioning. Survival. Trying to belong in spaces that only made you feel like a burden.

And somewhere along the way, you believed it. You believed you had to change to be loved. You believed you had to shrink to be accepted. You believed that self-love was for people who were already confident, already beautiful, already successful.

But self-love was never supposed to be a prize for getting everything right. It was supposed to be the foundation that told you - even when you mess up, even when you fall behind, even when you don’t feel proud - you are still worthy of kindness.

It is not your fault that you didn’t learn how to love yourself. But now you get to choose differently. And that choice is where your power begins.

Because the world doesn’t change when you punish yourself into silence. It changes when you start walking like you belong. When you stop asking for permission to exist. When you treat your own mind like it deserves peace.

That is what self-love looks like when it’s no longer about becoming someone better. It’s about coming back to who you were before the world told you otherwise.