I need to stop looking at my body and pieces and parts. When I look in the mirror I see things I don’t like. I see things that distress me or upset me. If I look a little longer I can see things that look ok…or (in the case of a couple items) I think look rather amaze-balls. But those are not the first things I see.
I am not my parts…I am not my pieces. I am…a whole person with good and bad. Emotions, parts, pieces, moods, feelings and fears or thrills.
I must start to see myself as a whole person. Yes, there are parts that I may not like if I examine them too closely; I speak of the physical as well as emotional. But I am not a person in pieces. I am a person. The whole me is not bad. The whole me is not ugly. The whole me is…just me!
If I can get comfortable with the whole me… without reservation or shame… Then I will be one step further into being the person I truly wish to be.
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