A healthy relationship with yourself also is built on daily gestures — the ways we treat ourselves every day. As author Gretchen Rubin has said: “What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”

Here are four ways to build a healthier relationship with yourself throughout the day.

1. Listen to yourself. “Healthy relationships of all kinds include deep listening,” Cool said. She suggested carving out time throughout your day to simply pause and listen to your thoughts and feelings.

Or at least do it at the beginning and end of each day.