Growing in Love #1: Love of Self, sides 1-2 A (30:10). It is difficult to separate ourselves from the self-images of that are projected upon us from the time of our childhood: images of love, self-rejection. In order to love ourselves we have to our accept fact by accepting who we are and how God created us. When we love ourselves, we honor ourselves and place a crown over our heads that all of our years we will be trying to grow tall enough to wear.