“Practice Your Love Languages On Yourself”: Woman Starts A Self-Love Twitter Thread And It’s Going Viral

It’s crazy how much pressure we put on ourselves. Think of the last time you thought you’re not good enough or could have done better. Think of how many times you’ve looked at yourself in the mirror with so much repulsion, you wouldn’t wish it on your worst enemy. It sometimes feels like the promised land of self-love is just too far away.

And one woman named Jessicah Pierre is giving us much-needed motivation to transform this redundant narrative of self-loathing into the self-love we truly deserve. She started a Twitter thread with the caption “I don’t know who needs to hear this but practice your love languages on yourself” and it blew up on social media with 110.2K retweets and comments and 330.4K likes.

From telling yourself words of affirmation to giving yourself acts of service and spending quality time alone, let’s take a look at Jessicah’s wonderful pieces of advice below.

Jessicah Pierre has shared ways to practice your love languages on yourself on Twitter and it has gone viral

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According to the 2019 data from the General Social Survey, for many Americans, life is getting more miserable. On a scale of 1 to 3, where 1 stands for “not too happy” and 3 means “very happy,” people give themselves a 2.18. That’s a significant decline from the nation’s peak of happiness, as measured by the survey in the early 1990s.

Measuring happiness may be tricky, because the concept in itself is extremely fluid. But what if happiness is more than just a feeling, at least when it comes down to things that depend on our mindset, and we can all practice it on a daily basis?

Many people felt like practicing self-love is an incredibly powerful thing

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Science Daily suggests that we all have to be as kind to ourselves as we are to others, value our strengths, and spend some quiet time by ourselves. Professor Karen Pine, a psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire, also believes that “practicing self-acceptance is one thing that could make the biggest difference to many people’s happiness.”

There’s no single magic trick that can turn us into our happiest selves, but at least we can teach ourselves happy habits that will grow into a long-term sense of fulfillment.