As a therapist, the most profound and transformational work that I can do is to help people learn how to truly love themselves. This may sound simplistic and out of step with the high tech, modern world we live in, but it is as true today as it has been throughout all time.
Love is a healer that transcends intellectual knowing and understanding.
It is ultimately an action of the heart, which opens and accepts, honors, and makes sacred. Learning to love the deepest places of our being requires creating a new relationship with ourselves that embraces all we are and all we have ever been. For most of us, this process involves changing old thinking and beliefs that have effectively squelched ideas about self-love. These characteristics are poor imitations of the real thing. A person who is egotistical is hiding feelings of inadequacy under a mask of conceit.