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 Jesus said “Love your neighbor as yourself,” which immediately causes a few questions to arise in most people’s minds: “How do I love myself? Should I love myself? Why should I love myself?”  

The unhealthy answers to these questions include self-abasement, martyr complexes, and co-dependent relationships.  The healthy answers try to find a balance between the descriptor that Jesus uses (love yourself), and the command that He gives (love your neighbor).

Karl Galik’s book examines the problems that we have with loving ourselves and how that hampers our ability to truly love others.  In a quick 22 chapters, Karl shares stories from his career as a counselor and pastor with the goal of teaching that the solution to finding balance in loving yourself and loving others is two fold: First, engage with others as completely as you can.  Second, disengage from others in order to live well as a created being who trusts Jesus and has energy to love others.

I would recommend this quick book to any Christian in any vocation who is seeking balance in their life to make work more fruitful and life more enjoyable.

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