It took years of therapy, spiritual recovery, and various other means of healing and striving to become stable to fully embrace, in my heart, that “self-care is a radical act of self-love.”
I put myself through the wringer for decades -beating up on myself mercilessly and pursuing self-indulgence and my will with reckless disregard for the profound emotional, spiritual, and physical damage that I was doing to myself. Finally, the pain and consequences drove me to my knees and I surrendered to a life of self-care and spiritual recovery.