Sep 14, 2026 · 19 min · 12 segments
What if the reason you struggle with self-love is because you were never taught to fully accept yourself? In this episode, I break down how childhood conditioning, self-judgment, and the need for…
Rob DialHost
Once again, it's freedomlive2026.com. Today, I'm gonna be talking to you about how to build up your own self-esteem and also your self-love as well.
I have found that people can be so cruel to themselves, and what's crazy about it is that we'll speak to ourselves internally harsher than we would ever dare speaking to another person.
Like, you would never speak to someone that you love the same way that you speak to yourself.
But we normalize this because we've been doing it for so long, it's such a habit, and we don't even notice that we're abusing ourselves as much as we are.
And so when you look at self-love, what I think is actually a better phrase for self-love is self-acceptance, to be able to accept every part of yourself.
Yes, every part of yourself, 'cause some of you guys are already getting triggered, going, "But, yeah, but he doesn't know about this part of me.
I wanna keep this hidden from everybody." And the reason why I say self-acceptance is because it's not really about love, it's about acceptance, and the barrier to self-love is self-acceptance.
When you fully accept yourself and you get past all of your self-judgment, the only thing that's there is self-love.
Before I talk about how to actually love and accept yourself, I think it's really, really important and I need to talk about why you don't love and accept yourself, and how that happens throughout your life.
Because if we don't talk about that, then this w- isn't gonna really make any sense.
And so when we talk about how and why and all of that stuff, I'm gonna dive in deep into childhood and how to actually raise a child and how most people are raised as children, and then it's gonna start to make a lot more sense why we have the habit of self-judgment and not the habit of self-acceptance.
Once again, it's freedomlive2026.com. Today, I'm gonna be talking to you about how to build up your own self-esteem and also your self-love as well.
I have found that people can be so cruel to themselves, and what's crazy about it is that we'll speak to ourselves internally harsher than we would ever dare speaking to another person.
Like, you would never speak to someone that you love the same way that you speak to yourself.
But we normalize this because we've been doing it for so long, it's such a habit, and we don't even notice that we're abusing ourselves as much as we are.
And so when you look at self-love, what I think is actually a better phrase for self-love is self-acceptance, to be able to accept every part of yourself.
Yes, every part of yourself, 'cause some of you guys are already getting triggered, going, "But, yeah, but he doesn't know about this part of me.
I wanna keep this hidden from everybody." And the reason why I say self-acceptance is because it's not really about love, it's about acceptance, and the barrier to self-love is self-acceptance.
When you fully accept yourself and you get past all of your self-judgment, the only thing that's there is self-love.
Before I talk about how to actually love and accept yourself, I think it's really, really important and I need to talk about why you don't love and accept yourself, and how that happens throughout your life.
Because if we don't talk about that, then this w- isn't gonna really make any sense.
And so when we talk about how and why and all of that stuff, I'm gonna dive in deep into childhood and how to actually raise a child and how most people are raised as children, and then it's gonna start to make a lot more sense why we have the habit of self-judgment and not the habit of self-acceptance.
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