Why You Can’t Have (Healthy) Love Without Self-Love

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In this spiral, you lose sight of the issue

“So when you’re triggered and you are very disconnected from loving yourself, you don’t have the perspective to understand ‘What’s happening right now is reminding me of some deep old wound that still needs healing,’” explains Hogi. “Instead you think ‘This person [the one triggering you] is terrible and all of that sadness and all of that anger that I have inside that I’m not able to look at, I’m now going to project all of that onto this other person. And vilify them.”

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