why relationships require self-love

Storyboard  ◇  Illustration  ◇  Animation

The School of Life asked me to animate this script about the necessity of loving one's self to be able to better allow others to do the same. 

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“No animal, perhaps, can hate itself except, of course, a human being: it’s one of the strangest, and most regrettable, flaws in our condition. This tendency to self-hatred is not only destructive of our spirit, it constantly undermines our efforts to establish workable relationships, for it is logically impossible to allow anyone else to love us insofar as we remain obsessed by the thought of our own loathsome natures."