Teal Swan

A friend recommended this book to me, otherwise I would probably not have found it.

The author recounts her childhood and youth when she was abused by a “paedophile-sociopath”.

Subsequent to this abuse, Teal was addicted to cutting, was suicidal and loathed herself.

She realized she needed to learn to love herself, and thus this book presents “Teal´s tool kit to self-love”. Self-love is the highest state of all. “If you begin to cultivate self-love, everything you have ever wanted for yourself and your life will come to be.”

The first tool is a useful question to ask ourselves. We should ask ourselves this question every day for a year whenever we need to make a decision. “”What would someone who loved themselves do?” Then, of course, we need to listen to the response we get and do that.
After the 365 days, it will be a habit for you to live your life in alignment with self-love.

Each chapter presents a new tool.

Tool 2 shows us that we are deserving, tool 3 shows us how to make our number one goal happiness. Tool 4 teaches us how to “fill up our own cup”. To do this we use the question: “What are some ways that I can think of to show love to myself?”; we then write a long list of things, Examples are: Writing a list of positive aspects about myself which I really believe, Not doing things that I don´t want to do, Trusting in my higher self, and that if I “let go and trust”, I will flow in the direction of what is best for me. Teal gives us many suggestions but we should of course write our own list.

We are given 29 tools in all.

I have given the book 4 stars instead of 5 because I didn't find it that easy to read. But I found it to be an exceedingly valuable book, since self-love is one of the most important things we need to learn, perhaps the most important. This is a book one needs to purchase, so one has time to work with all Teal´s various tools. Highly recommended!… (mais)