If you've been on your personal development journey for a while- you've probably heard the phrase "self-validation" more than a few times. That the key to healing is truly not caring what anyone else thinks. If you just loved yourself enough, something in your brain would click, all of your problems would melt away, and you'd become a beacon of perfect mental health. The result? Another thing weighing you down. Another task making you wonder if you're a failure.

Asking myself what I'm working on every new moon created an exhausting continual loop of self-refinement and self-critique.

You've gobbled up the self-love journey. You even like yourself. Do you have to be perfect to actually love yourself?