Strip it down PT. 2

     

    Sometimes it’s the hardest thing to hear the truth and a lot of times after we hear it, it takes us seconds, moments, hours or even days to wrap ourselves around it. Some bury it and some ignore it until it seeps from their pores and some let it consume them. 

 

I’m learning to face it, no matter how much it hurts. Because running away from things is how I got to where I was; and I refuse to be that girl again. 

 

In a previous post (January 17) I told you that I was working on insecurities. We all have them, some are physical, some are mental and some are just things most people struggle with but don’t want to talk about. 

 

One of my insecurities is compliments and how I cringe when I get them. It’s so hard for me to believe things when people say nice things about me. 

 

I was asked to list all of them, and though I am still working on that list, I wanted to make something visual for me to look at everyday. I am continually chasing after growth and clarity every single day and I know that it’s never going to be a straight line of positivity but at least this way I can learn from it.

 

So for today, here is my visual. It’s uncomfortable and raw and honest. And it hurts me when I read these things about myself but, I can’t hide from them anymore. So, front and center they’ll stay until I don’t need reminders anymore; eventually they’ll just be scars from my past. 

 

Scars are evidence that we’ve lived; don’t run from them.

A raw moment.