This is for those who have battled loving themselves. For those who have ever thought you didn't matter or weren't worthy. For those who thought you had to be perfect to be loved, by others and by yourself. For most of my life, I battled this. Am I good enough? If I am good, why do I still do things that cause people harm? For me, it has mostly been my words. I know I have a way with them, and when I used them to hurt others, it felt like relief in the moment. Afterward, I felt terrible and would cycle through ruminating, justifying, then hating myself for it. Y'all, I am not perfect. Nobody has to punish me, because I punish myself way worse than anyone else would. My meditation teacher told me I could choose to love myself unconditionally. I could not do it. But I still wondered, how could I love myself unconditionally when I still mess up? Then I heard Michael Beckwith say something that made me reconsider. He said, it is arrogant to think your opinion of yourself is higher than God's truth of who you are. I stopped walking. I played that part again. I had to sit with that for a while. Later, I told my wife, and she asked me, "now what?" To be honest, it changed my whole way of thinking. I am love, loveable, and loving. I now know that I must love myself unconditionally, because the truth of who I am is bigger than any limited idea I hold in any given moment. It set me free, yal. Free to love myself and others. When I mess up, I get back up, apologize, make things right, and try again. This is my practice. If any part of this is your story too, drop a comment below. Tell us what you are practicing unlearning right now and what are you learning to do instead? We're all just practicing being better humans and getting back to, or (re)membering, the truth of who we are. This is our practice in being a Liberated Genius.