Tag: self worth
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Monster, Part 2
It is desperately difficult to convince yourself that you have worth in order to bolster yourself when the fear that you are worthless is constantly validated by others. When your boyfriend of five years abandons you in a foreign country without a word, when your childhood friend informs you that they have no desire to…
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Mirror Mirror
I’m not going to allow the opinions and insults of others to dictate how I live my life. Anymore. How I look should not change who I am. My being ‘overweight’ does not give anyone a license to body shame me. I refuse to allow myself to fall prey to societal expectations which are completely unrealistic…