I love it when women see themselves for the beauty and amazing creation they are.
Grab a cuppa cause I am sharing a piece of my heart with you today. I need you to listen, I want to be heard, I want you to understand and today I simply want to encourage your gorgeous heart while you encourage mine.
My piece of heart.
I had the most wonderful mother. Growing up I adored my mother. She was everything a mother was supposed to be to me. Kind, caring, fun, full of hugs and kisses and everything nice, she could bake a mean cupcake, she always smelled soft, and so much more. She was so pretty and so sweet.
Yet, by the time I was entering my teens I began to realize that there was something going on in my mother and it was not right, she was not right...
My mother had bipolar, she was depressed, my mother was skin and bones anorexic, my mother was bulimic, my mother was so unhappy. The truth was that my mother could no longer see herself.
It was devastating to watch, heart wrenching to see someone so beautiful become destroyed. I won't go into the reasons why, responsibilities or faults as there are none worth discussing, no blame to lay. Only know that it has left scars on me, it has left a mission on me.
From that time on I have only wanted one thing for us women and that is to see ourselves.
I want us - you - to see the amazing, mysterious, beautiful person that you are in all diversity, in our different cultures and customs and in our uniqueness. I want us to understand that of all creation "women" was created to be the most beautiful, glorious wonder and that no one else can carry the heart of love, giving, sacrifice, courage, strength, understanding, song, purpose and so much more in the way that we do.
When a women sees herself she then knows who she is - valuable, an undefined beauty, important, significant, worthy and with a voice of action that matters and can make a big change in this world. She can stand and face anything, she is not to be messed with, and the world truly turns in a different direction when she speaks real truth and shares her spirit. Don't get me started with what magic happens when she smiles or better laughs. She is powerful and this is beauty incomparable.
When a women sees herself there is no more striving to be something she is not, false body image expectations fade, unattainable high pressure goals disappear and conforming to lies from mistakes, the media, trends, or disbelief in ourselves whether whispered from ourselves or worse spoken by others we can kick to kingdom come!!!!
I am on a mission - mission beautiful - so you can see you, individually, one of a kind, perfect in our imperfections (yep you don't have to be perfect to be absolutely beautiful) and standing strong. You will change the world if you see you and see others for who they are too.
It did not end well for my mother because she never saw herself again and I never got to see her again either. Sadly she committed suicide when I was 19.
So, now you know why I am so passionate about women knowing their value, importance and beauty from the inside to the out and passing this on to our daughters and there daughters.
My mother is beautiful, that never changed despite it all. She just could not see it any more. My mother is amazing, valuable, gorgeous, fun and so courageous and brave for living with the battle she did inside her mind that stole her physical body.
Know this forever that you and me and women everywhere are the beautiful with every breath, through every age, forever. This is truth and you' re allowed to walk it everyday.
You can join me on instagram for a month of seeing you the beautiful here. The daily list to snap is on the right. Be apart of a group of women who are on a mission to tell women they are the beautiful staring with ourselves.
#missionbeautiful_atib
@_allthatisbeautiful_
Grab a cuppa cause I am sharing a piece of my heart with you today. I need you to listen, I want to be heard, I want you to understand and today I simply want to encourage your gorgeous heart while you encourage mine.
I had the most wonderful mother. Growing up I adored my mother. She was everything a mother was supposed to be to me. Kind, caring, fun, full of hugs and kisses and everything nice, she could bake a mean cupcake, she always smelled soft, and so much more. She was so pretty and so sweet.
Yet, by the time I was entering my teens I began to realize that there was something going on in my mother and it was not right, she was not right...
My mother had bipolar, she was depressed, my mother was skin and bones anorexic, my mother was bulimic, my mother was so unhappy. The truth was that my mother could no longer see herself.
It was devastating to watch, heart wrenching to see someone so beautiful become destroyed. I won't go into the reasons why, responsibilities or faults as there are none worth discussing, no blame to lay. Only know that it has left scars on me, it has left a mission on me.
From that time on I have only wanted one thing for us women and that is to see ourselves.
I want us - you - to see the amazing, mysterious, beautiful person that you are in all diversity, in our different cultures and customs and in our uniqueness. I want us to understand that of all creation "women" was created to be the most beautiful, glorious wonder and that no one else can carry the heart of love, giving, sacrifice, courage, strength, understanding, song, purpose and so much more in the way that we do.
When a women sees herself she then knows who she is - valuable, an undefined beauty, important, significant, worthy and with a voice of action that matters and can make a big change in this world. She can stand and face anything, she is not to be messed with, and the world truly turns in a different direction when she speaks real truth and shares her spirit. Don't get me started with what magic happens when she smiles or better laughs. She is powerful and this is beauty incomparable.
When a women sees herself there is no more striving to be something she is not, false body image expectations fade, unattainable high pressure goals disappear and conforming to lies from mistakes, the media, trends, or disbelief in ourselves whether whispered from ourselves or worse spoken by others we can kick to kingdom come!!!!
I am on a mission - mission beautiful - so you can see you, individually, one of a kind, perfect in our imperfections (yep you don't have to be perfect to be absolutely beautiful) and standing strong. You will change the world if you see you and see others for who they are too.
It did not end well for my mother because she never saw herself again and I never got to see her again either. Sadly she committed suicide when I was 19.
So, now you know why I am so passionate about women knowing their value, importance and beauty from the inside to the out and passing this on to our daughters and there daughters.
My mother is beautiful, that never changed despite it all. She just could not see it any more. My mother is amazing, valuable, gorgeous, fun and so courageous and brave for living with the battle she did inside her mind that stole her physical body.
Know this forever that you and me and women everywhere are the beautiful with every breath, through every age, forever. This is truth and you' re allowed to walk it everyday.
You can join me on instagram for a month of seeing you the beautiful here. The daily list to snap is on the right. Be apart of a group of women who are on a mission to tell women they are the beautiful staring with ourselves.
#missionbeautiful_atib
@_allthatisbeautiful_
See me and I will see you.
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