Ladies of Hive: Beautifully Made

Dearest Hivians ❤️

I hope y'all are doing great
Well if you're not , here's a peck for you 😚☺️.
I feel great today and quite beautiful 🥰 ,well that's because I made braids after a long time 😁.
My friends can testify that I'm always on a wig or I'm going natural, just my hair in an afro or packed and tied up in two , since it's been a long time,I decided I was going to make braids ☺️,I feel so good with them.

How often do you feel good about yourself? braids or not, makeup or not, how do you see your self?

Have you ever looked in the mirror and you're like woooah,I am beautiful,I'm wonderfully made,I'm gorgeous or you despise yourself and feel miserable about your looks.
I want you to understand that God made you beautiful and no matter what others think of you,it shouldn't get to you because in the eyes of the one who created you, you're perfect and priceless.
There was a time in my life when I hated even looking at myself in the mirror,I'd complain about how my eyes looked, complain about my tummy , complain about my hair and how dark my skin was ,I never felt good about my self, to add to it, I was body shamed most of the time,some of the boys in my class would laugh about how fat I was and how I was so dark someone would mistake me for a shadow at night, when ever I looked at the mirror it was to cry about everything those people said to me ,I hated my self all the more,I'm not a very pretty sight when I cry😄.

All of that changed one day, I met a nice lady in our neighborhood ,she's always a lively person and very nice too. She told me about how her classmates used to discriminate her and say bad things about her because she was fat, she said she hated herself, didn't have friends and had even contemplated suicide because no one wanted to associate with her ,I opened up to her about what I experienced and asked her how she came out of feeling bad about her self. She asked me to get a book,a new one and write good things about myself in it,I wrote all the good things I could think of,I showed her the book when I was done , she told me to read those words everyday and feel myself being those good things I wrote about myself, I did that regularly and believe me it worked like magic,I saw myself as beautiful, pretty, smart, caring and all the good things you could mention,my self esteem went up,I paid deaf ears to body shamers and bullies. What they said didn't matter but what I thought of my self.

It's been a beautiful journey,I now feel comfortable in my skin and I take care of my hair so it stays healthy,I did loose a considerable amount of weight after I had my appendectomy , but no matter what,I don't think I can ever feel less of my self, physically, intellectually, academically and socially,I believe I am capable and I can achieve big things.
I won't forget to add,I'm a big fan of mirrors,I never fail to stop by if I see one and admire my self.

Don't just be beautiful outside anyway, make sure that inside, you're beautiful too ❤️