It's not selfish

My dear Shanda,

Don’t you understand that loving yourself is not selfish or narcissistic, that in order to love others, you have to start by wholly loving and accepting yourself, complete with all your adorable warts?

That means you have to love your imperfections. You have to love your ego. You have to love the wounded inner child in you that acts out sometimes. You have to love the scared Gremlin that tries in vain to protect you.

And of course, you have to love me.

But that’s the easy part, isn’t it? Because I’m SO easy to love!

So are you, precious

Your Inner Pilot Light