Happy Self Love Saturday!
Before I started my self love journey, I used to be incredibly hard on my looks. I’d see a picture of myself and focus on all of the “negatives” and complain about the little things and not appreciate my face/body and overall appearance despite how much effort I may have put in. It was awful, I finally had an “ah ha” moment one night with my mom after I sat looking at pictures of myself with her and just complained the whole time about the things I didn’t like. I sounded like a grinch and was being completely disrespectful to my mom because at the end of the day these were her genes that I was taking for granted lol. When I finally heard myself I knew that here is where I needed to start to make some changes and actually appreciate make looks and improve on the things that I could. Instead of focusing on the negative I needed to see only the positives and quit beating myself up because it was getting me no where. My suggestion for anyone that does this is the next time you see a picture of yourself, before you start complaining about the things you don’t like, point out at least 5 things that you do like! Do this all the time until you truly appreciate your natural beauty and what makes you special. Happy Self Love Saturday ya’ll! xo
I am loving this series Andrea! In the last few months of 2013 I came to the conclusion that beating myself up leads nowhere and it was so uplifting and I felt like a weight was taken off my shoulders but once in a while I still tend to obsess about a few things here and there in my appearance and this was the perfect reminder to let go and just be happy 🙂 thank you so much for this!
I’m with you on this. It’s kind of draining being around ppl who are insecure and who are always comparing themselves to others, especially within a circle of friends. It can really poison a friendship bc they tend to project their insecurities onto others as a coping mechanism so that they feel validated. That’s no way to live. You should be the person you would like to meet and enjoy being around. How many ppl can say that abt themselves?
wow this one hit me hard! definitely have to shift my mind to start doing this. thanks for these self-love videos 🙂
I look forward to these videos each weekend. I had a particularly rough morning and this really helped me get out of my funk. Thank you!
This was inspiring! Nice post! For me, it applies less to photos and more to me being very critical when it comes to professional performance. I think you’re right, it’s so easy to look at something and point out everything you don’t like or in my case “think” you didn’t do well. We do need to celebrate our progress — the way the younger versions of us would!! Thanks. And Happy Self love Saturday to all the commenters! : )
I think we tend to pick out all of the negative things in our self because we see ourselves all the time so when we see someones else…especially someone we never seen before we’re like oh my gosh shes beautiful why can’t I look like that because we are not used to looking at that person everyday…its like a new type of beauty that we never see so we down play how we look because we see our beauty all the time….I should share this with my blog…
We are normally our own worst critics…foolishly. Great vid.