Your Beauty & Worth has nothing to do with a weight on a scale, or the size of your jeans.

The people who love you and care about you could care less about the fact the you've lost 5 pounds or gained ten. What matters to them is that you are a beautiful soul and they love you for you.

You are worthy!

You are beautiful!

You are a force to be reckoned with!

Love yourself for who you are💕 not for measurement of earth's gravity 😉.

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Perfection isn't something to be obtained.

You were born a Perfect you.

All that needs to be obtained is the confidence to shine.

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”

-Brianna Wiest, in Thought Catalog

This is absolutely beautiful ❤️ #loveyou

Have to appreciate the older generation showing us self love

Joy is not measured in pounds lost but in memories gained. I have had a form of eating Disorder almost my whole life and you what makes me sad about that.. It's all the time I wasted trying to be someone else.. Trying to fix myself.. Thinking I wasn't "good enough". We'll I was good enough, I was born good ENOUGH. Fuck society telling you that you have to "fit in" or be the "perfect size"... Perfect for who? Cause whatever the answer it wasn't perfect for me.. And that's what I learned.. That I am already perfect and I will continue to be no matter what shape or size I am.. Because my shape was never the problem. The problem was I believed there was ever a "problem with me" in the first place. We are who we are and that my friends is who we are meant to be. You do not or the world a thin body if that's not who you are.. you owe yourself love, respect, kindness... And above all unconditional love and approval.. . . . #eatingdisorderrecovery #bopo #bodypositive #selfie #anarecovery #anorexiarecovery #bedrecovery #fullyrecovered #recovery #loveyourself #effyourbeautystandards #scarrednotscared #bodypositivity #edrecovery https://www.instagram.com/p/BdvQZnjFcqc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ihwf8v1ghgl4

Loving yourself is more than just loving how you look. It’s about loving all of you, inside and out. It’s about being ok with not always being ok. It’s about saying I am ok as I am .. no change necessary. Btw it also means if your feeling yourself in that Snapchat selfie then enjoy it, post it, share it , and love it😍 Also does it mean you need a filter?? HELL NO! But does it also mean you can’t use one?? HELL NO! In the end do what makes you 😃 happy!! #nofucksgiven . . . . . . . #bodypositive #edrecovery #chronicillness #beyourself #loveyourself #happyhealthywhpleme #bopo #bopowarrior #youarebeautiful #selflove #eatingdisorderrecovery #recoveryisbeautiful #recovered (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqn0oQVFloI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nnxx2y5ewsxy

So this was a really hard post for me.. In fact I debated posting it at all but it's time for me to let go and show that you are beautiful just the way you are.. No filters no shame... It had taken me a long time to learn to love my body and many attempts to recover. I can finally say I am fully recovered and starting to live so I was always meant to be. My body had been a battlefield and I have the scars to prove that. I have been everything from 260-79lbs and everything in between and I am proud to say I am finally happy.. And this isn't determined by a number on a scale or being toned/ripped.. It's because I accepted me for myself and that my friends is a beautiful thing. Yes I have loose skin, stretch marks, and you know what that's OK.. They show me I am strong and determined and I can survive anything life throws at me and you know what.. you can to. Your are unique , we all are and nothing and no one can take that from us. We are unique and that is what makes us beautiful. 💖#eatingdisorderrecovery #edrecovery #ednoswarrior #edfam #edfighter #anorexiarecovery #recovery #bopo #bodypositive #bingeeatingdisorderrecovery #ednosrecovery #anafighter #anarecovery #bulimiarecovery #bingeeatingdisorderrecovery #effyourbeautystandards #loveyou

Thin doesn’t make you better it just changes your pant size.

Me

If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.

Ruthie Lindsey (via psych2go)

The real Question

The question isn’t does she look better before or after the question should always have been is she happy. We focus so much on the outer appearance that we forget about our soul…whats inside us, what drives us, our lives purpose. What does it matter in the end if you looked “better “ thinner, or bigger. What matters is are you happy and i mean truly 100% happy. I know for me it took a long time to figure out that gaining weight actually made me happier and do you want to know why? because I now have freedom..Freedom to eat, freedom to live, freedom to be my authentic self, and that my friends is what its all about. So next time you look in that mirror or stand on that scale ask yourself are you truly happy ( and I don’t mean with how you look) Place that aside I mean are you happy in your life..And if the answer is no then start doing what make you happy again.

No alterations

You are so much more than the clothes you wear or the number on the scale.You are an artist,or a cook, or a nerd or a animal lover…But more than anything you are a PERSON. A person deserving of love and acceptance…No change or altercation required.

Happiness is a choice…choose it