Your relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you will ever have. It is the one relationship that is inescapable and the one relationship that can affect all other relationships in your life. 

So it is important to evaluate whether you operate primarily from self-acceptance or self-abandonment... 

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What is self-abandonment/rejection? 

Essentially, it is rejecting or abandoning one's needs and feelings.

Self-abandonment can look like some or all of the following:

•  Rejection of own needs, thoughts, and feelings
•  Always putting others' needs above our own
•  Hiding parts of yourself you feel ashamed of
•  Ignoring our need for self-soothing and relying on food or other substances to shift our state
•  People pleasing- being who you think you need to be in order to be accepted and loved
•  Frustration for not being "motivated" enough or sticking to healthy habits
•  Ignoring our...