Dear Gaurav:

Glad you posted here.

You wrote: “I need to punish myself… How did you overcome entrenched self hatred?”

When you need to punish yourself, hating yourself, that means you are angry at yourself, believing you deserve pain, that you are a bad person, isn’t it so?

No matter what you practice to love yourself, the belief, the Core Belief, that you are a bad person will remind you its there in moments of imperfection… and there will continue to be many of those.

Confront the Core Belief, go back to the time when it was formed. Challenge it. Best done in quality psychotherapy.

If you would like, you can share here anything you think may have brought this core belief about.

anita