Sarah Jakes Roberts

And I became curious about whether or not there was any way that I could love myself.

And I started like just taking little pieces of myself that I like.

Well, I like this about me and I like that about me.

And that was the journey of me falling in love with myself.

And from that place, I began to fall in love with the world around me and other people and experiences and opportunities and things began to change.

Now, this is where me growing up in a faith household, I think, really began to take form for me is because they kept talking about faith and God and, you know, he loves you and all this stuff.

And I just didn't believe it.

I just it couldn't be possible.

How could God love me and I don't love myself?

And the people who I trusted have turned their back on me and friends don't believe in me anymore anymore.

And so I think by faith begin to say, like, if God is real, if this is possible, I want to imagine what kind of life I could have if I really believe these things.

And it was me living out that life that I began to see a shift and a change take place within me.

But I think a lot of people were disappointed in me when I got pregnant.

I think they were like, you could maybe possibly recover if you don't make any more poor choices.

But then I kept making poor choices.

And then I was like, we might as well have fun while we're making poor choices.

And so I had to make some subtle changes before I saw a sudden shift.

It was just stuck inside of me.

Like I started liking the fact that I was angry.

I think it's because I wasn't feeling anything at all.