Janis Nakano Spivack argues that worthiness is the foundation for everything else: without believing you deserve time and effort, you can't invest in yourself or receive from others. Confidence in your own worth is what makes self-care and healthy relationships possible.
Worthiness is probably the center, the center of where we begin. Am I worth taking time? Am I worth spending, you know, quality effort on increasing my value to myself? First and foremost. My confidence in myself first and foremost, um, and investing in myself, which is why we call it self-investment. Because if we don't invest in our own well-being and who we are, in our worthiness, then how do we give? How do we receive, actually, is really the question, right? How can we receive if we don't believe that we are worth whatever we are being given.
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