Falling in love with yourself is the first step to living fully, and Walter Riso's books are a powerful guide to achieving it ...

According to Gina, "self-love is being, doing and having more of the things you love in your life," so making space for those things, activities and people is only going to make a positive difference.

To love yourself is not to simply like yourself. You can like that you are artistic, spontaneous and fashionable, but your hobbies and quirks will not remind you of your worth when you're down.

In order to learn how to love yourself, you need to first know how to get to know yourself and then like yourself. Here are 3 steps you can take every day to make self-love a lifelong practice.

1. Loving and knowing yourself makes it easier to say "no" when you really need to. When you love yourself, it becomes easier for you to say no to people and things that don't align with your values.

Loving yourself is the practice of self-love, and it’s ongoing. Forever. Until you die. It’s not a bar to measure yourself before getting into a relationship.

The message to "love yourself", it seems, is everywhere: in Lizzo’s songs ("I'm my own soulmate), in Instagram meme aphorisms ("the most important relationship you’ll ever have is with ...

It’s not shallow or vain to love yourself. And there’s a world of difference between a well-adjusted outlook and the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder.

Loving yourself is the practice of self-love, and it’s ongoing. Forever. Until you die. It’s not a bar to measure yourself before getting into a relationship.