Positive affirmations are key to showing yourself internal love. We all have doubts and insecurities, and speaking kind, sweet words to yourself can help keep those negative thoughts at bay.

When you're feeling down or self conscious, keep these positive affirmations in mind to help you promote self love.

Balancing self love and people pleasing is difficult, but the more you love yourself and want to prioritize yourself, the more you’re okay with doing and saying things that go against the desire or need to constantly please people.  

But I’m here to tell you that you can move past your people pleasing ways and will explain how!

Self love is the best love, and here are 68 self love instagram captions you can use to post on social: 

-- learning to love myself was the best decision I ever made

-- self love isn’t selfish; it’s necessary. prioritizing me, always

Don’t let someone make you believe they’re the best thing to ever happen to you. Don’t let someone make you think you’ll never do better than them. Remember who you are, get up and be open to finding someone better.

I promise you will be okay. I promise you will get through these feelings. You deserve to be the right person’s first choice.

You’ll have days where you have cute self love moments.

And then you’ll have moments you’re crying your eyes out or getting mad at yourself for all the things you’ve allowed.

Lack of motivation feels like a disease, it feels like a sickness. It engulfs my body and won’t let me get up or do anything.

It feels like chains are around my body restricting me from standing up or walking too long.

You can love yourself enough to trust your mind and opinions when it comes to your struggles or troubles.

And you can love yourself enough to listen and lean on others who can offer help when it comes to your struggles or troubles.

Gratitude is something that I’ve had to learn in pieces. It can be difficult to be grateful when you have negative thoughts constantly or don’t feel your best.

Having gratitude in your life can cultivate self love in ways that you may not be aware of until you include it in your routine.

Becoming more self aware is a practice that takes time. I become increasingly more self aware through every situation or interaction that made me feel as though I should have acted differently, or I should have stood up for myself more, or I think to myself that I never want to be in that position again.

We’re too hard on ourselves. In a world where that’s constant negativity and judgement, where there’s always something to criticize and dislike, be the one that has your best interest in heart.

Be the one who has the nicest thing to say about yourself. Be the one who shields your heart from all the hate in the world.

It can be so hard sometimes. Especially when you’re in the trenches or feeling low. It’s hard to do the thing that might make you feel a little better. It’s hard to get up and be proactive about doing something good for your soul or body.

But practicing self love is so crucial to being okay.

All of us deserve to feel loved.

I’m writing my first blog post at a restaurant, sipping my cute little drink and getting ready to order a po boy. One thing about me -- I love solo dates. They were for sure scary at first, but now I get excited taking myself out and getting to spoil myself.