Glennon Doyle

Hi.

Can I tell a brief little quick story about Justina and I's first real meeting?

Do you remember this, Justina?

So we were doing this exercise of, I don't know, it was like an opening up.

There's many women there.

This is the first time we've met all of each other.

And we had to...

go to a stranger and stare into said stranger's eyes and thank God Justina was my partner for this.

And you and I, we have a closeness now because of this eye-staring contest that we got into.

And I just want to say it was super awkward and weird.

And then now knowing you, it's like, oh, my God, that's hilarious.

So I just want to say that because I think that it's perfect.

Justina.

This is so interesting to me, thinking about the self-respect piece, because I've never attached it to self-love.

I've never thought of

whether or not I have self-respect for myself.

And I think that, at least for me, I could be really tough on myself.

I have kind of a very critical voice.

I think probably a lot of us do.

And thinking about this self-respect piece, it's like, oh, if I think through that lens of needing to have respect for myself, automatically that voice softens a little.