Teenage girls seem to be the ones to not like themselves the most. This was true for me. I found myself always picking on myself. Ever since middle school I always picked out something from my entire being I didn't like.
As girls, we grow up seeing famous celebrities and models dressing up in size zeroes. Even if you were a size three, you wondered why you weren't a size zero. The negative self-talk follows you everywhere unless you combat it with positive self- talk. I barely began to learn that this year, after all these years of worrying about how others saw me. I found it quite difficult because I was always self-conscious about my hair and my body, therefore, feeling confident about my looks was a challenge I faced.
I compared myself to others countless times, and it led me nowhere. All I wanted was to feel was happy in my own body, but I had to fight the negative voice in my head that discouraged me from wanting to be who I was. I began wearing the clothes that I felt were comfortable for me. I started to do my hair my way, and not according to others' standards of beauty.
By doing this, I began to love myself more as the days went by. I had to reiterate the fact that I only have one body in this universe, so I had no option but to love myself, both inside and out.
