This is a beautiful post. You are a beautiful woman and I'm sorry that others have tried to take that feeling from you. Being a woman is so hard at times, we are told to do this and wear that and push those up a little more. It's hard raising a daughter who i think is so beautiful, but I'm afraid what her own voice in her head will say. I know because we all went through it as young women. Thank you for this friendly reminder to love ourselves. Rock on, pretty lady
Thank you so much for your words, Amber. I think feeling some kind of pressure and inadequacy is just natural especially, when we're younger and most of all in puberty, when it's so hard to keep your head together with all the changes with the body. But I feel very concerned for our Western world and Asia in growing numbers too with what our media-based, capitalised cultures are even more profoundly evolving to. Having been fat and skinny and fit and very strong and muscular, all these different phases with my body, in my life I have noticed that in all the phases there are always some people, several of them, who don't think I'm good enough like that, so it only comes down to me: how am I good enough for me? Even though it is a very difficult thing to answer these days, with advertisements and (social) media always telling us something different. And I'm quite sure there is this whole conspiracy in fashion and beauty businesses to keep us always feeling bad about ourselves so we'd buy more. I could rant on this forever.
Breaks my heart to think you're beautiful daughter wouldn't genuinely feel that way in the future. I worry about that too. But luckily I think that the deepest core beliefs, the loudest voices in our heads come from home, so I believe your girl is lucky to have you help her differentiate the truths and lies in her head. :)