Self-love can be learned like riding a bicycle, believes author, meditation trainer, hypnotherapist, and alternative practitioner Kim Fleckenstein. She knows that we love our friends, acquaintances, and partners, invest time, and give compliments—yet often neglect ourselves in the process. We don't particularly like ourselves, are much more critical than we are of others, and set much higher standards. Kim Fleckenstein's 4-week program requires just ten minutes a day and helps to gradually eliminate self-doubt and the inner critic. Simple tricks and exercises train self-awareness, help to see oneself in a new light, and fully embrace one's own self. Old, entrenched beliefs about ourselves are replaced with new thought and action patterns that foster gratitude, balance, contentment, and self-confidence.