"I love myself" is narcissistic. There, I said it. Not because loving yourself is wrong, but because the way it's being taught is complete bull-doo-doo... Well, at least it's a fertilizer (lol) Scroll through Instagram and you'll see it everywhere: "Boss babe energy." "Self-love Sunday." "I'm that girl." "I am Him / I am her" "Alpha male mindset." "Know your worth, queen." All of this performative self-love is just insecurity dressed up as empowerment. It's the ego trying to convince itself it's worthy by shouting about it loudly enough. Real love doesn't need to announce itself. Real love doesn't need affirmations or mirror work or daily reminders. Real love just is. Right??? Tell me something... When you love someone deeply, you don't have to work at it. You don't wake up every morning and tell yourself, "I choose to love this person today." You just do. Naturally. Effortlessly. The same is true with yourself. If we have to convince ourselves to love ourselves, you're still operating from the belief that you're separate from love. You're still treating yourself as an object that needs to be loved by a subject. But here's what I've realized: You can't love yourself because there is no "yourself" to love. There's just love being what you are. All this "boss babe" and "alpha male" energy is just the ego trying to feel better about itself. It's insecurity wearing a mask of confidence. It's fear pretending to be power. It's separation disguised as self-love. When someone has to constantly tell you how confident they are, how much they love themselves, how alpha they are - that's not love. That's the ego desperately trying to convince itself and everyone else that it's worthy. But love doesn't need to prove anything. Love doesn't need to perform. Love doesn't need to be earned or developed or practiced. Love is what you are when you stop pretending to be human and realise we are god! When we stop trying to love ourselves and start recognizing that we ARE love, everything changes.