Loving Ourselves

Loving Ourselves is a call to action for every member of the LGBT community to stand up and be proud of who you are. Through the compassionate voice of Dr. Kimeron Hardin, this well-documented guide allows you to recognize your strengths, acknowledge your weaknesses, and become a stronger, more self-compassionate person. Beginning with your early influences on identity from family and media, to the choices you make in your daily life, to contemporary issues like marriage, parenting and aging, this is the definitive book that lets you finally complete yourself.

Loving Ourselves is a call to action for every member of the LGBT community to stand up and be proud of who you are. Through the compassionate voice of Dr. Kimeron Hardin, this well-documented guide allows you to recognize your strengths, acknowledge your weaknesses, and become a stronger, more vital person. Growing up lesbian or gay in a heterocentric or homophobic culture presents many challenges to the development of a healthy self-concept. We are bombarded almost daily with messages that we are either evil or sick and while we learn to overcome these obstacles, the scars from this type of upbringing can be hard to erase. This book is about going beyond the intellectual resistance to early programming and incorporating a truly self-compassionate relationship to the identity we call the "self". The author's hope is to help you develop a consistently positive and nurturing inner voice that transcends the negative feedback you may have stored from your past and may still encounter in today's world.

Kimeron Hardin, Ph.D., ABPP is a clinical health psychologist who specializes in helping gays and lesbians improve their self-esteem and overall sense of wellness and satisfaction. He is also the co-author of Queer Blues: The Lesbian and Gay Guide to Overcoming Depression. He loves living in the San Francisco Bay Area with his husband Brad and their dog Ella.