When I started working with Tom over two years ago, I didn’t love anything about my life, and that was mostly because I wasn’t taking responsibility for it."

-- F.S., Washington, D.C.

When you love yourself, you will:

• Treat yourself with respect and compassion

• Pay attention to and honor the commitments you make to yourself

• Be more caring for your own growth and actualization

• Be more self-accepting and less critical of yourself, even though you’re not perfect

• Make better, clearer, well-thought out, decisions for yourself

• Live more consciously in the present

• Have more joy and enthusiasm for life

• Live more in harmony with your values

• Be more able to love others

• Be more able to attract, be aware of, and accept the love of others

Some symptoms of not loving yourself:

• Self-critical and negative self-talk

• Not making commitments to yourself or others

• Not keeping the commitments you do make to yourself or to others

• Lack of success and effectiveness in the world from lack of commitment and lack of enthusiasm for what you choose to do

• Co-dependence

• Continually settling for less (less than your potential; less than your values; less than our wants)

• General unhappiness

• A lack of “peak” or “flow” experiences

• Low self-confidence (sometimes masked by phony self-confidence)

• Difficulty in accepting others’ love or even appreciation

• Lack of close, caring, interdependent relationships

Love coaching can help you love yourself more completely and effectively

• Loving yourself = self-acceptance

• Loving yourself = self-commitment

• Loving yourself = self-responsibility

• Loving yourself = self-appreciation

• Loving yourself = self-caring

• Loving yourself = self-awareness

• Loving yourself = healthy relationships