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Books That Changed My Life: Jenna Johnson & Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It Pt.1

28 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Jenna Johnson credits Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It with helping her through a 2016 breakup and career struggle. Growing up as a dancer, she battled chronic self-critique and deep darkness until the book shifted how she saw herself. She describes how her self-critical and self-loving personas dance completely differently.

When did this book come into your Life?
This was 2016. I had just gone through a big breakup. I wasn't where I wanted to be in my career, and in this moment, I felt the most darkness I had ever experienced as maybe a woman, but also a dancer. I grew up 247 in front of a mirror, so the way I always looked at myself or thought about myself was constantly with critique.
I don't know why that one is, like, made me want to cry. Just barely. Oh my gosh.
How does the version of you that is a critic dance different than the version of you that loves yourself?
I think.