Loving Yourself

‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’ is one of Jesus’s most well-known and often quoted sayings. (Mark 12:31) Probably most of us feel comfortable with the ‘love your neighbour’ part of Jesus’s words: thinking of others, being kind to people.

But what about, ‘as yourself’? To have love for ourselves in the same way as we love others? Umm… more tricky, that.

Loving Yourself explores how our love for both neighbour and ourselves stems from God’s love for us. It considers the background and context of Jesus’s words; what it means (and what it doesn’t mean) to have love for ourselves; and how we can love ourselves in a way which enables us to love our neighbour. The book offers practical suggestions – and, yes, wrestles with some of the trickier parts too.