The New Year is here. A new decade, too. We can give ourselves the gift of Resolutions, or Aspirations, that last—and that are based not merely on self-improvement (which can have an edge of self-aggression, i.e. “I really would be attractive if I’d just lose 5 pounds”), …but on self-love. Not the self-love that influencers might sell us, or a $975 quartz dildo from Goop…

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Making friends with the parts of ourselves we’re not overly proud about.

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Cheerful New Year.

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