You have to learn to love yourself despite knowing way too much about yourself
@donni See, that's my problem. Why would I love myself if I have clearly not earned the right to do so?

@csolisr @donni

well if you deny yourself the right to love yourself, maybe you can pursue a policy of unrequited love for yourself

Internalized criticism is hard to undo. Especially when your only support network is the one that made the external criticism in the first place. So I'm not entirely sure on how to apply the "unrequited" advice, but guess I can meditate it