good luck. i feel ya.

This sounds very familiar to me :(

I find this alot with myself at times. I know that magazines & often video clips are ‘airbrushed’ so it isn’t the natural way a person looks. It is therefore impossible to be that so perceived ‘perfect’ look. I find the more I love myself, the more I find I like what I see in the mirror. When I calm down, accept all of me & tell myself I love myself a trillion times a day no matter what happens or who says what…..It is difficult a lot of the time, especially with so much focus on how we are supposed to look, not only for women but men also…

Good luck with this. I struggle with it,not so much to not look in the mirror all the time as here you are doing, but to accept who & what I am despite the outer when I do look in the mirror & to NOT COMPARE MYSELF TO OTHERS. Everyone is unique & meant to look a certain way (mostly for spiritual reasons I read as well as being named for our names at birth too). I came across a saying….

“We are 1% body, 99% spirit’ which took away the anxiety about appearances & that the inner counts way more than the outer. Although i still struggle with it, it does help to focus on our spiritual selves.

Ps. Thankyou for your entry. It really helps.

Many cheers again…:)