I recognize all the things I love about myself readily, which helps put my energy in a positive state conducive to healing.

Illness is very good at generating lists of what is wrong with you and very bad at generating the other kind. It is genuinely hard to feel affection for a body that has just let you down badly.

Start somewhere unloaded. Your hands, probably. They have been competent this entire time, holding cups and doing up buttons, working without complaint or credit while everything else was being discussed.

Liking one part is not a technique for getting better. It is simply less exhausting than the alternative, and exhaustion is not a resource you currently have to spare.