Beauty
Posted by Lisa on January 17, 2007
Survivors often struggle with body image and self esteem. We were stripped of healthy self-thoughts while we were being abused. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to our own beauty, we are often blind.
We have undoubtedly been told by someone we are close to that we are beautiful for at least one trait. We have a difficult time believing them, no matter how much we want to believe that there is something beautiful about us.
What have you been told is beautiful about you? Do you believe the person(s) who told you that? Do you trust the person(s)?
What do you believe is beautiful about yourself?
Roma said
I have always been told that people love my hair as it is very thick and has natural curl to it as I have gotten older I have come to accept the curls as a part of me even on those humid days when all they want to do is their own thing!
D.T.D.23 said
well…my life is pretty much hell right now…i am trying to heal myself which is extremely hard. i have had SELF HATRED since i was as young as five…i couldnt even look at myself in the mirror…thats how much i HATED myself…and now i am seeing scars from all the cutting that they did on me…everything i ever loved they decided to cut on me in different places where no one would ever see. i am very discouraged right now…all my life i have held all this pain inside…and tried to hold myself together..but now i feel like i am losing control…i cant even read words and numbers…it is so hard to try and go on…when i have been suicidal for so long…but i am trying to pray and that is all i can do…and it is working…also friends and family are an encouragement to me right now…i dont tell them half of what i am going through as i want to protect them from the horribleness of what i went through…i LOVE them THAT much…but ok…you all seem to know what i am talking about so…if you have any advice for me i would love it ..