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​Learning to love yourself is a lifelong journey, but you have to start somewhere. 

Since I was a kid, I’ve always been a bigger girl and that made me a target for bullies and weird and unhelpful comments from “well-meaning” relatives. I was first made conscious of my weight when a gym teacher in middle school pulled me aside and “advised” me to lose a little weight if I wanted to get through our running drills in gym class. I remember feeling awful for the rest of the day. I just couldn’t shake that comment off despite protestations from older relatives to just move on. 

My insecurities grew the bigger I got, the more attention my weight garnered, more off-handed comments from relatives and classmates, and rejections. I didn’t realize how much of my past experiences I’d internalized until one night where I was feeling at m lowest. I hated the person staring back at me in the mirror. One night, the amount of negative things that I often said to myself got so bad that I didn’t want to exist anymore. 

I’m a woman of faith, so for anyone who’s not familiar with prayer, this next part might strike you as odd, but I heard God say “Are you pretty enough for me?” That stopped me dead in my tracks. 2 things happened: 1) I thought, “oh, ok this is my psychotic break. I’ve officially lost it.” And 2) I went back to crying and eventually cried myself back to sleep. I woke up the next day and asked God where I go from there. It was then that I heard, “Tell yourself you are beautiful.”

Dragging my feet to the bathroom mirror, I barely got the words out, but I said, “You…are beautiful. Whatever.”

I did this every day and eventually got to a place where I’d start taking selfies until I got a shot that I liked. 

I don’t know where you are in your journey to truly loving yourself and I know what it’s like to feel like you’re not good enough based on your looks because experiences and people have always given you a reason to believe otherwise. I can tell you that I still have a long way to go, but it starts with that first step. For me, it was doing something that took me completely out of my comfort zone – affirmations and photography. So, depending on where you are in your journey, I invite you to make that next step (or leap) into appreciate who you are and your unique beauty right at this moment. 

Let’s schedule a chat to talk through more of what your self-love journey has been thus far and join a community of people who are also learning how to love themselves on Facebook. Then, once you’re ready to make that bold choice to step in front of a camera and see yourself as beautiful, book a Self-Love Session with me and let’s create images that mark this moment and that you can proudly display for all to see.