You also need to be on your side.
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You also need to be on your side.

How to Develop Self-Love, Silence Self-Criticism, and Become a Safe Place for YourselfBy Sara Melo
Michael Caine
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Length7h 46m

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You understand the mistakes of others. You know how to offer words of comfort when someone you love fails. You know how to say: “Don’t be so hard on yourself.” But when you are the one who makes mistakes, fails, feels insecure, or can’t meet your own expectations… do you treat yourself with the same understanding? Perhaps there is one person from whom you demand perfection, to whom you rarely grant rest, and whose mistakes seem unforgivable: yourself. In You Also Need to Be on Your Side, Sara Melo presents a practical and emotional journey for those who wish to strengthen self-love without falling into superficial positivity. Because self-love is not about believing you are perfect. It’s about being able to recognize your mistakes without turning each one into proof that you have no value. Throughout 14 chapters and a practical 30-day program, you will learn to: • identify the source of the voice that insists you are not enough; • differentiate destructive self-criticism from responsibility; • stop measuring your worth by performance and comparison; • develop a fairer inner language; • transform self-love into concrete actions; • better cope with failures, rejections, and difficult days; • rest without needing to "deserve" the break; • make peace with old versions of yourself; • rebuild confidence in your own decisions; • set boundaries and love yourself without abandoning yourself; • create a relationship with yourself that can become a source of security, not a threat. This is not a book about putting yourself above everyone else. It's about finally stopping always putting yourself last. You don't need to be perfect to deserve your own presence. You also need to be on your own side.

Audiobook details

GenreSelf-Help
Length7 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish

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1Introduction
45. Start over (pt. 2)
23. Contextualize
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