I came across a lovely tweet this week.

Since childhood, we are taught to treat others with pillars of the Golden Rule. Kindness, respect, dignity and love. We show love the same way we’d like to receive it.

But as we all know: the way we treat ourselves can be incredibly damaging. Our cruelest enemy stares back at us in the mirror. The best is left for others, but none for ourselves.

So this was a great reframing of the Golden Mirror Rule: Be gentle with yourself—as gentle as you are with others.