I think your filter is a great way to approach it! Way to go!

I assume that is you on the photo :D

It’s great that you are getting rid of all the negative people in your life.

You are gorgeous, you have a capturing smile and a great figure. What you write is always insightful and I can sense your devotion to a great new start in life in everything you say. No scar in the world can take that away from you.

You should wear the dresses you bought without being worried at all :)

Not that one should go out and get them, but… they do reflect a lived, full, interesting, engaged life. They are signs of all you have survived: accidents, surgery, suicide attempts.

Each one tells a story. Each story is part of YOUR story.

Celebrate them.

If there are people who judge you because of your scar, you don’t need them! Man, there are so many other (positive) parts of you to focus on, why would they focus on something like that…? As if they are perfect or something.

We love your scar.

after starting bellydancing lessons, I’m at a point where I’m not aftaid of my scar. I actually have been thinking of making it the stem of a floral tattoo. Not because I want to cover it up so much as I want to make the pain spot a beautiful garden and a site that can radiate pleasure.

I had a classmate in art school who was fixated on scars, bruises and other so-called injuries to the skin. I think the act of focusing the gaze on the beauty that can be seen there (yes, the beauty) in the scar can be incredibly healing.