The Facts:
SYMPTOMS FROM LACK OF SELF-LOVE
“The life you wish to create will not exceed your belief in yourself and your sense of worthiness.” - Katie
01 PERFECTIONISM
- Constantly comparing yourself to others
- Persistent, unrelenting, “never enough” feeling
- Knowing your potential and not acting on it
- Time consuming analysis paralysis
- Holding back in your career from fear of failure
- Never acknowledging yourself
- Always comparing to your last performance
- Constantly trying to be “more,” “better,” “different,”
…and left depleted and exhausted
- Always putting more on your plate, constantly doing and multitasking… and still not satisfied
- Superwoman complex
02 IMPOSTER SYNDROME:
- A gap between who you are and who people think you are
- Feeling shame from needing to hide behind (and maintain) an image
- A sense of betrayal to yourself
- Sabotaging your self-worth
- Disconnected from your authentic self
- Fear of being exposed or found out
- Can’t wait to be alone to take off the mask
03 LIVING TO PLEASE OTHERS:
- Afraid of disappointing people
- Putting yourself last
- Hard to set and stick to boundaries
- Not expressing how you really feel
- Placating, compromising, and settling
- Living by others’ expectations
- Self-beat up from not living the life YOU want
- Playing small
04 LACK OF RELATIONSHIP:
- Outer reality is a reflection of inner world
- Overcompensating for lack of self-love creates imbalance in relationship
- Always feeling disappointed
- Needing to control the relationship OR giving into relationship wants and needs
- Over attachment to outcome and fear of losing relationship
- Doing whatever it takes to achieve mediocrity
- Inability to fully receive, due to lack of self-worth
- Feeling alone
05 HSP PERSONALITY
- Experiences emotions with great intensity
- Easily overwhelmed
- Difficult to shift out of emotional states quickly
- Difficulty letting go
- Feels misunderstood, often times perceived as weak
- Intuitive and empathic
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ”
