(My sisters + I with our brother’s puppy, Sadie)
As a woman, I (and millions of other women), struggle with being confident in my body. It’s dumb, yes, but it happens to the majority of women. We tell ourselves that if only our thighs were smaller, eyes were brighter and hair was curlier our lives would be better. But that’s not true.
There are multiple reasons that I need to have confidence in my body, but the 3 main ones are:
I teach workout classes + aim to inspire others
I have two teenage sisters + strive to be a good role model
Happiness begins within + YOU control your own happiness
Generally I am pretty happy with my body, although I call myself fat WAY more than I should. This post was triggered an article I read entitled “30 Things to start doing for yourself.” Number 8 on the list was “start being polite to yourself.” If we talked to our friends the same way we talked to ourselves…we wouldn’t have very many friends. Just buy valtrex online stop and think about that for a second. The amount of times I’ve picked apart my body, I would NEVER do that to a friend. Ever.
Number 8 is really hitting home with me today after a very rough week with minimal body confidence and the struggle to find a graduation dress that I feel good in. I wanted to share it will all of you so you stop and think before you critique yourself. Start treating yourself the way you treat a friend; I know I am going to work very hard to stop bringing myself down. In my house we actually started something (yesterday) that if you say something bad about yourself you need to counteract it with 3 things you like about yourself. Worth a shot, eh?
Anyways, I’m off to TJ Maxx for one last-ditch effort for a graduation dress on my lunch hour (wish me luck).
I hope you all have a great weekend + by the time I’m posting Monday I will be a college graduate 🙂
-M
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Mads, this was awesome. Thanks for the pep talk. Every girl needs one of these! You Rock!
Thanks abs! 🙂
Body confidence is something I’ve struggled with for a long time, so I can definitely relate to this post. You’re so right that if we treated friends like we treat ourselves…we’d be pretty lonely.
WIshing you the best of luck in your quest for a graduation dress. I’m sure you’ll look beautiful no matter what!
Thank you so much!
Such a great post! It’s so true yet so bad. We all do it. I’m happy to see that you’re putting in an effort to change that, I should probably do the same. 🙂
Congratulations college graduate! Ahh the feeling!
Steph – Signing Steph
I’m going to try my best- I hope it works! Thank you!!
First of all – CONGRATULATIONS!!! It’s so exciting to graduate…and also totally scary!
This is a great post and I’m going to check out the article now. I’m guilty of being way too critical of myself. I have no idea why I’m so negative, but there’s something engrained in my mind that I just can’t shake.
xo Jackie
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I’m with you there, it’s as if I’m never good enough for myself. I’m working on it!