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If You Don’t Love Yourself, There Will Be Signs
10 subtle ways you might be abandoning yourself without even realizing it.
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You may say you love yourself. But how you treat yourself when no one is watching can tell a very different story.
You may be a high achiever or struggling to get your life back on track, but one thing is certain. You don’t feel good about yourself, and nothing you do on the outside really changes how you feel inside.
Here are 10 subtle signs that you struggle to accept who you are.
1. You struggle to accept compliments
You find it hard to accept compliments and dismiss them instantly.
A person tells you you look beautiful. You immediately feel they are lying. A colleague mentions you did a great job. Instead of feeling good about it, you immediately start to doubt their intentions.
- “Are they just being nice to me?”
- “They probably don’t mean it.”
- “They’re only saying that because they have to.”
Instead of accepting the compliment, you simply laugh it off. You change the subject or point out something else you think is…
