Hi! I hope you are having a nice week. I want to share with you an experience I had two years ago, when I was going through self-esteem problems. During my forties, everything started to get worse: I was getting little sleep, I felt a lot of anxiety, I had pronounced dark circles under my eyes and I lacked control over my eating. My body felt different, my hair was falling out a lot and I lost a lot of weight, although I have always been thin, I felt thinner than ever. I began to feel depressed and had low self-esteem. I was with someone who only brought negative things into my life and I was in a place where I didn't feel like myself; from having a bad relationship with myself to being in a toxic relationship where everything detracted from me and made me feel insecure and inadequate.

Also, I would hear comments about my physique from people close to me; sometimes I would hear them with bad intentions, but I didn't know if it was because I misunderstood due to my insecurity at the time or if the person really had bad intentions. I think for many years, I had the problem of paying attention to other people's comments. It frustrated me a lot to hear negative comments, and I think that was one of the things that I had the hardest time working to leave behind and not be aware of what people would say.

Everything around me seemed to be wrong, besides being away from my family, since it was my first year out of the country. I think many things happened at the same time and I didn't know how to handle them. Also, I was not taking good care of my diet, which caused constant migraine attacks, since I have suffered from headaches since I was a child, which were very frequent. One day I decided to start taking care of myself and loving myself: eating well, sleeping well, walking a little to distract myself, reading and writing to lower my anxiety and venting to someone who always tends to understand me. I decided to reduce my social circle and stay away from everything that hurt me. I took distance, moved to another city and started from scratch again. I started to love myself more, to take care of myself and to accept myself with all my flaws. It's been a year since then and I feel pretty good. I am a new person now and I am much better than I was two years ago.

With this experience, I realized how you can hurt yourself by being in the wrong place and with the wrong person who just turns you off completely. I know many people have a hard time getting through this process, but I tell them to never give up: seek help and never lose yourself by being around people who only detract negative things from your life. Love yourselves a lot, put yourselves above others, put yourselves as a priority always. Take care of your mental and physical health. You are never alone, there will always be someone to support you and believe in you. Love yourself a lot and live 100% in a healthy and responsible way. Thank you for coming here and reading me. I wish you a nice day.