Well this is not my weekly post, just a random post sharing some of the thoughts that have been going through my mind. (Part 2 Coming tomorrow, Tips on How to love yourself, so please subscribe or add me to your RSS feed so that you know when the next post is out)

A lot of people deal with addictions to food, drugs, alcohol and more. There seems to be one common reason why we fall prey to these things. No Self Love. We simply don’t love ourselves so instead we find something to pour our self into and don’t care whether it’s hurting us or not.

How many times have you eaten something you didn’t even want but it looked good? Me personally, to many times to count. How did I feel after I’ve eaten that meal that I didn’t want. Not very good. Most times I would be hurting or I would feel bad emotionally, it didn’t really make me feel better, it didn’t really give me joy, it just helped to push down the things I had been dealing with at the time but it never resolved anything.

I never realized until recently that I just didn’t love myself and because I didn’t love myself, I neglected my body and my health.

What does not loving yourself lead to? Stress, cancer, diabetes, Arthritis, and more. When we don’t love ourselves we simply don’t care about taking care of our body, our thoughts or how we treat others. So in turn we’ll eat something that would harm us and not care?

How many of us have known about the effects of food on our health, but never think once to change how we eat? Many many of us know how bad food is for us but we continue because we feel ok or we think we are inevitable and won’t ever become sick. This is not very smart. I had someone tell me a long long time ago, that our food was not good for us, they explained why and that I should try changing how I ate. Did I listen to that? No I kept going and guess what happened, I got sick.

Like most when I got sick, I would go to the doctor, but for some odd reason they would never find anything wrong. Well after all of this time I realized that if your not sick enough they can’t find anything so they send you home with nothing or with some experimental pills to see if they would fix the problem and there you go, on to finish ruining your life.

We have to start loving ourselves. This is so very important. You will know when you have started to do this because before you reach out for that item that will most likely harm you, you will think twice. You will think about how unhealthy it is and how it would hurt you. When we start to love ourselves we don’t put things in our body that would harm us or we don’t over indulge in things that would hurt us.

I am loving me. I don’t claim to be perfect but it is a working progress, everyday I try to do my best to love me and I notice now that loving me is more important then eating a hamburger from McDonalds, loving me is more important then trying to please people by eating what they eat. Loving me is more important then trying blend in with the crowd of people eating barbequed foods, it’s ok if I don’t eat what they eat, it’s my body why should I try to fit in. Loving me is taking care of myself.

I hope that you can find this love for yourself. Sometimes we think we love ourselves but we really don’t.

I’ll give you an example:
There have been a time during my raw journey where I would eat something that I know would cause me pain, but because I didn’t love myself I ate it. I didn’t care about the affects that it would have on me, I didn’t care at the time whether it would kill me or not, all I cared about was eating something that taste so so good whether I really wanted it or not.

How many of us do this? Many.

If we trutly loved ourselves, I believe we could really make the changes we need to and not look back. Sometimes learning to love ourselves will take a while and that is ok, as long as we know that we are missing this piece in the puzzle and are trying to change, that is all that matters.

Peace and love,
Tanisha Marshall
http://www.tanishamarshall.com