Love Yourself And Others Worksheet
GinaMarie Guarino, LMHC
Worksheet updated on January 9th, 2025
Promoting self-love is an important part of therapy, but sometimes can be a challenge for clients. Teaching children about self-love can help them learn about healthy ways to build a healthy sense of self-esteem. Teaching kids how to find value in others is also a mental health benefit, as it promotes openness, compassion, and tolerance.
For a child to learn to love themselves, they must learn how to find things that they appreciate about themselves. Using social learning can help children find things they appreciate about themselves and their peers.
About This Worksheet
Self-love can be built with the help of group activities that promote healthy expression of love. The Love Yourself and Others worksheet is a group exercise that promotes the expression of love for themselves and others. It provides a simple task intended to teach children about self-love and respect. It also teaches children how to love and express gratitude toward others.
This worksheet is a great group exercise for kids who have behavioral issues, struggle with shyness, or are suffering emotionally. It is also beneficial for children with a history of trauma, abuse, and neglect.
Instructions
The Love Yourself and Others worksheet is a group exercise for older children up to 12 years old. It requires the children to be matched up into partners.
Pair up the group members with a partner who they do not normally speak with or get along with. Explain to the children that they are practicing this exercise to learn how to love themselves and others.
Instruct the group members to write four things they love about themselves and four things they love, admire, or appreciate about their partner. After the children have completed the task, have each group member share what they wrote with the rest of the group.
