Day 24: May 5th, 2017
Challenge: Get a pedicure
This challenge may seem silly to many people, but I think it's important to remember to not only take time to do nice things for yourself, but do things that remind you that you are pretty. I've been told by a lot of people that I am ugly. I have internalized that feeling, that heart-achy feeling, of being rejected by people who were supposed to love and accept me. I bury it deep in the back of my mind trying to forget, but every time someone makes a disparaging comment about my appearance, it comes roaring to forefront of my thoughts and sends my emotions on an out-of-control roller coaster ride. I have learned that I need to be grounded in my own truth about my own self so that others' opinions don't knock me off course. Little things, like pedicures, remind me that I am pretty. Maybe not in ways that others want me to be, but that doesn't matter. I am pretty, and I am worth paying to get pretty feet every once in a while, so that when I look down in the sadness that comes when someone calls me ugly, I have a little reminder that they don't know my truth, and their opinion is none of my concern.
Challenge: Get a pedicure
This challenge may seem silly to many people, but I think it's important to remember to not only take time to do nice things for yourself, but do things that remind you that you are pretty. I've been told by a lot of people that I am ugly. I have internalized that feeling, that heart-achy feeling, of being rejected by people who were supposed to love and accept me. I bury it deep in the back of my mind trying to forget, but every time someone makes a disparaging comment about my appearance, it comes roaring to forefront of my thoughts and sends my emotions on an out-of-control roller coaster ride. I have learned that I need to be grounded in my own truth about my own self so that others' opinions don't knock me off course. Little things, like pedicures, remind me that I am pretty. Maybe not in ways that others want me to be, but that doesn't matter. I am pretty, and I am worth paying to get pretty feet every once in a while, so that when I look down in the sadness that comes when someone calls me ugly, I have a little reminder that they don't know my truth, and their opinion is none of my concern.
— Stacy Mayren (@StacyLeeSnider) May 6, 2017
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