True Beauty Starts from Within

True Beauty Starts from Within

We have all heard it before… true beauty starts from within.

And yet, so many beautiful souls struggle with low self esteem, self worth, and self value!

Who is responsible for one’s self esteem, self worth, self love, and self care?

How about yourself!

Abusive relationships aside, of course.

And, most who lack self esteem, self worth, self love, and self care, lack because they don’t take the time for themselves.

Here’s the deal!

When we don’t take the time for self care and self love we don’t feel good… about ourselves.

When we are not in good health and fitness… we don’t feel our best… and not feeling our best causes us to not feel good… about ourselves.

We may think self love and self care doesn’t impact our self esteem, self worth, and self value… it does!!

We may even convince ourselves with lies that our self esteem and self worth is solid and higher because we don’t care if we are not in good health and fitness, or we don’t care about taking the time to brush our hair or even shower in some cases before we leave the privacy of our own homes.

We may place blame on those who take self care and self love to very high levels for making us feel “less than”. Even shame them for caring and loving themselves so much.

And/ or most likely seek comfort in social media posters/ influencers and others that “in the name of not shaming” actually shame posters/ influencers who filter or pose to look their best by posting natural images, demonstrations on how those who they think look perfect pose, demonstrations on editing apps, etc by what appears to be over exaggerating their cellulite or jiggly butt etc. Fighting one extreme of editing to perfection, in essence, with another extreme of posing to accentuate cellulite, stretch marks, etc in name of #bodypositivity

We, as humans, are great at finding validation, even friends, to keep us exactly where we are… comfortable! Even if that comfort is not a happy feel good place. Even if that comfort does not have our best health and fitness at heart.

We are the best at…

Excuses to not get healthy and fit…

Reasons why we are not…

And playing, in essence, victim to age, hormones, etc. Our excuses and reasons are endless!!

Yes, most have stretch marks somewhere for one reason or another.

Yes, cellulite can be heredity and/ or achieved through poor diet and high body fat.

Yes, one who has cellulite may not be able to rid cellulite 100%.

Yes, I am not aware of anything to remove stretch marks.

Both can be heavily diminished.

In fact, proper nutrition and weight training can heal so much completely and improve the rest significantly!

Nutrition and fitness, poor nutrition and fitness that is, is responsible for so many ailments including erectile dysfunction and hormonal imbalances/ deficiencies etc. Even mental illness.

So almost everything we complain about we have the power to do something about!

Everyone has the power of choice to accept all that you ideally would like to improve, for yourself as part of self care and self love and not for anyone else.

Or continue to complain, make excuse, give reasons, and blame everything and everyone else for why your health and fitness is not where you would like it to be.

High body fat even those who are skinny fat is just not good for the heart, the organs, the mind… the body as a whole.

So be careful not to find comfort in anything or anyone that holds you back from being your very best!

We have our greatest growth when we get uncomfortable. Yet, we will hide in comfort for years!

The bottom line is everyone has insecurities at one time or another… shaming is wrong… period. We don’t know what is truly behind anyone’s post or pic and what is happening in their world.

After all, we all tend to post our best self, our best life, and all that is good in it. Most don’t post about their struggles, the relationship struggles, their hurt.

Unless we all want to be 100% real posting the good, the bad, and the ugly who is anyone of us to shame another??

Remember that beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors. True beauty always starts from within. It exudes with confidence.

What yields more confidence? Poor health and fitness or premium health and fitness?

No one other than you can create that confidence in your own skin.

What self love and self care do you need to participate in to heal and exude self esteem, self confidence, and self worth that is so strong it’s un-breakable!