5 Lessons Sansa Stark Can Teach Us All About Self-Love

You truly cannot love yourself if you do not believe in yourself. The capability to be your own cheerleader in the face of adversity is the best loving you can give yourself. From the very first season of "Game of Thrones," Sansa knew she wanted to be a queen. As a young girl she proclaimed to her mother, "It's the only thing I ever wanted." Fast forward eight seasons, and you've got her coronation as Queen in the North.

It may not have been her original goal of becoming Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, but she is a queen all the same — and in some ways, it's even more meaningful: Winterfell is back in the hands of the Stark family and Sansa now has autonomous power over her beloved North (and she doesn't have to share the throne with any man. Can you say, "winning?").

Life will throw us curve balls but it is ultimately up to us to be the authors of our own lives. By being her own life coach, she wrote her own destiny. Arguably, other than Bran, she played the titular game of thrones better than any other character in the series. All hail the Queen in the North!

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