SL 365 | Day 27 | "Self-Love is a WIN for Everybody"

In typical fashion of popular culture, we're receiving two very different messages on a frequent basis. One message says that we should be totally independent and do everything ourselves; the other message says that we don't know what we're talking about, we're not the expert, and we need to look to others to tell us what to do--or even to do it for us! Wow--confusing, huh? The truth is that we don't need to be totally independent, nor totally dependent. Our species works best when we're INTER-dependent. One way you can challenge this #loselose culture is to ask for help when you need it, which works better if you first cultivate the types of relationships in which help is both given & received. Also, expressing a need doesn't mean you're expressing the desire for someone to "solve" that crisis. If we practice a more nuanced version relationships, then we can help each other by providing encouragement or talking about our own experiences without solving anything for someone else. Try this on your own by expressing a need to someone close to you AND doing so without expectation of them taking over. The solution is within Y-O-U. But maybe you need help uncovering it.