Comments on: *8 Things I Know Now

By: Lynette

Lynette — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:24:42 +0000

Love these, makes me want to steal your words and cut and paste…makes me feel wounded and strong and powerful at the same time. Thanks!

By: bridge

bridge — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:10:44 +0000

i posted a very similar post yesterday, although not as eloquent as you-
i came by way of Jen Lemon’s blog.
I believe in loving our lives, the happy, the sad, the anger the ugly parts and the possibility of forgiveness and redemption.

By: amy

amy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:20:10 +0000

that last one is my favorite…

By: monsterpants

monsterpants — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:35:25 +0000

(sorry, I misquoted- “Beauty is a worthy value.”

Felt an instant need to correct myself because it is so much better with the word “value.”)

By: monsterpants

monsterpants — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:33:32 +0000

Yesterday I flew home from spending 2 beautiful weeks with my Dutch boyfriend in Amsterdam (for the holidays). I was feeling all wiggy from the jetlag, and from being separated from the person I love the most in the world, and somehow in my “out-of-itness” I relapsed into a horrible fit of face-picking (I recently kicked this awful habit, which had plagued me for 12 years or more). I totally destroyed my face.

I instantly regretted it once I took a second to pause, step away from the mirror and see the big picture of what I’d done to myself. I went from being relatively clear-skinned (just minor blemishes that go away after they run their course) to enormous red marks, and places where I even broke through to blood (I haven’t done it that bad for years). After going for about 3 or 4 months with NO picking at all, this was extremely bad and I was desperately trying to find affirmations I could write on my mirror to prevent this from happening again. I came up with a few good ones, but when I read #3 on your “8 Things” list today I started crying, because that’s what it really comes down to for me- believing I deserve to be beautiful, that beauty is something I am allowed to strive for. “Beauty is a worthy cause.”

I just wanted to open up about this because it meant a LOT to me to read this today, it was good timing, so thank you.

- Gwen