The Girl Next Door is Black
The Girl Next Door is Black
  • Home
  • About
  • Life
  • Race + Culture
  • Travel
  • Contact
  • Work With Me
  • Support
Life

Being Kind to Myself

By The Girl Next Door is BlackPosted on 04/17/201308/15/20150 Comments2min read17 views
I wrote myself a cheesy love letter, Photo cr: laradanielle on flickr.com

1 min read

We all have our moments of doubt, where we feel like we’re not good enough or pretty enough or whatever-it-is enough. This starts so early, this self-doubt. It becomes like a shadow that follows us around to rain on our parade from time-to-time. Trip us up. Cause us grief.

Sometimes we spend too much energy focused on what we don't like about ourselves, and not enough considering the positive. Here's what happened when I made it a focus to give the latter a try. | Read more on The Girl Next Door is Black
I wrote myself a cheesy love letter
source

I decided rather than doing what is all-too-easy and focusing on what I don’t like about me, I’d take some time to think about what I do like.

I took an objective view (as much as this is possible) and considered what other people see when they meet me. How my friends feel when they are around me. What my dad thinks when he sees the woman I am now. What my younger sisters think when they think of their big sister. I’m someone’s aunt.

I wrote an ode to myself. I wrote about all the traits, qualities, experiences and inherent me-ness that makes me Keisha. As I reread it, I finished with, “You are beautiful.” And I believed it.

Of course, this is nothing new or groundbreaking. We’re told all the time to love and appreciate ourselves. But, this time, I wasn’t just repeating an empty mantra after watching a very inspirational episode of Oprah. I meant it.

I took the time to assess who I really am and how far I’ve come, and in the end concluded that I have a lot to be proud of, grateful for and to like about myself. I truly like who I am, the good, the bad and the shameful. I’ll never be perfect, as hard I may try, but I think this woman full of imperfections is pretty cool.

Try it. I’m curious to hear your results.

Related articles
  • 10 Actions You Can Take To Boost Your Self-Confidence
  • How Do You Handle Your Insecurities?
(Visited 50 times, 1 visits today)

If you like what you read, please share it!

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...
ode to selfOprahpositivityself-careself-compassionself-esteemself-imageself-reflectionself-worth

What Do You Think? Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

0 Comments
  • Heidi
    April 26, 2013

    🙂 Like!

    Reply

About

I'm Keisha ("Kee-shuh", not to be confused with Ke$ha). I am a (later) thirty-something, non-mommy, non-wife, who lives in San Francisco, California New York and has lots of opinions on lots of things.

On The Girl Next Door is Black you'll find content on everything from race, culture, gender, and other socio-cultural issues, to travel, pop culture, and tales from my daily life.

Read more about me...

Sponsored

Popular

The "Google Analytics Top Content" widget requires the plugin, "Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights", to be installed and activated.

Install plugin | Activate plugin.

Need Blogging Advice?

Subscribe today and I'll send you a link to download my Essential Blogging Resource Guide!

Visit My Super Cool Amazon Store!

Search for Older Posts

Subscribe by RSS

Enter your email address to subscribe by RSS.

Search The Archive

Join the Community!

Subscribe to The Girl Next Door is Black to be the first to get new posts and receive the monthly newsletter of goodness!











Travel Monkey
The Girl Next Door is Black
Copyrights © 2018 BUZZBLOGPRO. All Rights Reserved.

 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: