Prioritizing yourself means taking better care of your own emotions and feelings. It means you are putting your feelings first, your emotions first, and your likes and dislikes first.
When you don’t put yourself first, it means you don’t care about your own feelings and emotions; you are taking care of others feelings and emotions instead of yours. You are doing things for others even if you are not feeling good to do that.
Taking care of others is not a bad thing; it’s a good thing, but you should make sure that you are not sacrificing your own well-being while doing this.
Some people may say prioritizing yourself is a selfish act. No, it’s not! I would say that prioritizing yourself is a great thing you can do for yourself.
You are mentally, emotionally, and physically well when you are looking after your own needs and taking care of your likes, dislikes, feelings, and emotions.
Prioritzing others instead of yourself is like, you cooked food at your home, and instead of giving your own children, you took all the food and went to your neighbour’s house, and you gave all the food to your neighbour’s children. Now, can you imagine how ignorant your child will feel? This is what you do to yourself (or your inner child) when you don’t put yourself in the priority.