You can't love others from an empty cup. Fill yourself first through self-care and self-love, then you can give endlessly without running dry. The most powerful love is modeling what it looks like to love yourself.
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And you need to be in overflow because you can't love them from your cup. You gotta always love them from your saucer. Yes. Because when you love them from your saucer, you never ever run out. You never love on an empty tank. Love never hurts. A lot of times when love is hurting, it's because you haven't given you everything you need yet, and you're trying to give other people what you still need. You're trying to give them your oxygen. Which is why you're sitting around going, "Sk, sk, sk, sk, hurry up!" Right? But if you— you know I'm crazy. I'm drama. I'm visual. I never made it to Broadway, so this is my best damn stage. And so recognizing that when you love from your overflow, that's the most responsible thing that you could do. And that the greatest love that you can ever give the world is the demonstration of what loving you looks like.