Sunday, 8 May 2016

My overdue, segway-less blogpost of this week


Hey guys! How are you? How is life?

At the moment it is rhetorical, but if you are actually reading this please let me know in the comments below. I am getting straight into it today because I am pretty rubbish at segways.



It is so important to accept yourself, and see yourself for what you truly are, no matter who you are around, what stage you are at, or why you are where you are.

When you no longer define yourself by the words and opinions of others, you find a whole lot of freedom that no one is able to take away from you.

This post could go in hundreds of different directions, but the direction I am going to take it into is body image.

You are allowed to love yourself. Not when you fit into those jeans or go for a run or choose salad over fries, but now.

Close your eyes, and open your heart.

 You are not the size you are on a clothing rack or the number of kilos on the scales or the distance between your thighs. You are the bands you like, and the books that you read, and what you do in your free time. You are how you treat people and what you photograph, and what you dream about. And the fact that I have to remind the word of this makes me really really sad. The problem isnt with your body, the problem is what you think of it; and what you think of yourself. We dont shame flowers for being to short, too tall, too big, too dark, or too stripey. So why do we hate on people for it? All your body ever does is look after you and keep you alive. There are trillions of cells inside you, and all they care about is you. 

Society is messed up. If you love yourself, you are too proud. But if you dont, you are attention hungry. If you are unique, you are weird. If you are normal, you are boring. No matter how you feel about yourself, you are going to get hated on for it.

Everyone has something they are self concious about, but at the end of the day if you arent happy in your own skin then something needs to be done. When you are in a positive headspace and accept yourself, you have an incredible ammount of power. Because once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.



CHALLENGE FOR THIS WEEK

Point out your three favourite things about your body. Then, choose one bit of your body you dont like, and find a way to like it. Whether that be you pat it, and tell yourself how amazing it is, or look a bit deeper and see why it is like that. Sometimes our biggest insecurities are the things that are actually our strengths.

Once I wore a crop top out and felt extremely self concious, but got heaps of compliments. My insecurity turned out to be my asset. I mean I still hate crop tops and never want to wear one but to know that the things that you are worrying about are things that arent actually bad is a very nice feeling.



Anyway, I hope you liked this weeks post. Sorry it is a bit late, I have had a very busy week.

Melissa xx


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