How did you become so okay with how you look? You just seem so happy and at peace with who you are. How? It seems impossible to me- unthinkable even. Unattainable is more like it. You are amazing.
It took a lot of work, and I went from one extreme to another.
I spent most of my life being incredibly insecure with the way I looked, the outcome of abuse and bullying and of course, some help from mainstream media and advertising.
In late 2009 I made a discovery that the way I viewed myself was wrong and that I had to work to change it. FINALLY, the realization came that, my efforts should not be put into changing my BODY but into changing the way I THINK about my body and body image in general.
It's an injustice, that so many people have physical insecurities. We aren't born with these insecurities, we learned them, and we can unlearn them. They hold us back, sabotage us, keep us from ever truly being happy.
I practiced loving myself, not comparing myself or others, complimenting myself, learning about myself as a human being, learning what makes me feel electric, and doing just that. Doing what makes me feel alive! Not caring what anybody thinks! I became fearless!This is my life and I am going to live it and I am going to be happy whether other people like it or not!
Even if I ever wanted to change my body, I wouldn't pick at it because "I'm not there yet." That's the if/then theory. "IF I were thin, THEN I'd be happy." but that's wrong.
Your body is your body. It's a part of you, and it is beautiful RIGHT NOW. You just have to make some adjustments to the way you see it, attain some new self perception glasses, so you can see yourself in the right way.
