healthy self-love means accepting and appreciating yourself for who you are. It’s what allows you the motivation, the platform, to make difficult changes and to weather seasons of personal growth, realizing who you can become. It can seem that teens are extremely self-centered, which can be interpreted as narcissism. But self-absorption does not equate to self-love in adolescence. Teens are inwardly focused at this time because so much is going on inside them. They, frankly, need to be self-focused;