Comments on: Loving Who You Are

By: Stephanie M. Phillips

Stephanie M. Phillips — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:18:55 +0000

This is exactly what I need. Thank you so much for having the courage and passion to share this. Your words are inspiring, and the reality of them is much needed among women and girls. So often, we seek the approval of others without caring about the approval of ourselves. I heard somewhere that instead of dismissing a compliment, we should respond with, “I know, right?” It lifts your spirits and gets a smile from the person paying the compliment. I try to remember this every day. I will take your words and apply them as well.

By: Ivan Remtoula

Ivan Remtoula — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:49:37 +0000

Thank you so much for writing this amazing article. I’ve just read it and I absolutely loved it.
I think loving who we are is a daily battle, because of everything we hear and we also doubt ourselves.
Yesterday, I told a coworker of mine that she was beautiful, and she said I was making fun of her. I replied that I wasn’t and that I’ll always find her beautiful, no matter what she’s wearing (including makeup). As the saying goes, “tell a woman a 1000 times she’s beautiful and she won’t believe you. Tell her she’s ugly once and she won’t forget it”. I’m planning to tell this coworker that she’s become a great inspiration of mine and she’s a wonderful person inside and out but I’m a little bit afraid to do so. Does anyone have advice?
Back to the article now, I think to love ourselves, we need to write on pieces of paper what we do and don’t like about ourselves and throw the paper with the negative points away, so we keep the one with the positive ones. Does it make sense?
PS: the article you’ve written also applies to boys/men. Let’s not forget that

By: Malavika Prabhakar

Malavika Prabhakar — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:17:31 +0000

I love what you wrote! Every few weeks or so I often tumble back onto the self-hate road, I’m trying but still struggling. Although an old article, I came across this last year and it really helped me “see the light” – http://www.beautyredefined.net/to-be-or-to-be-looked-at/ – give it a shot!
Thanks for the uplifting and yet again enlightening article

By: Alycia Lourim

Alycia Lourim — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:26:17 +0000

I am so glad you wrote this. I had an awful night and it went into my morning and I have been trying everything to find a pick-me-up and then I told myself I am going to go to Hello Giggles somehow someway the universe knows I need them. And here you guys are once again uplifting me when I really need a lift. You are so right. Its up to us just to make the decision and be happy with who we are because thats what we have got and we are the only ones who think we arent great, but we forgot we have a choice and the power to make that not true and to feel amazing everyday. Thank you for sharing this. You def did share this with the world
xoxo.

By: Dimple Pallugna

Dimple Pallugna — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:30:06 +0000

I love reading your posts. They are always so comforting. Keep writing!

By: Ella Pelayo

Ella Pelayo — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:17:29 +0000

And just when I thought I was the only woman in the world who have this different vision of me in my head, your post just knock it off in my system. I used to be afraid looking myself in the mirror. In fact, I had destroyed one just a few months back. The journey that we have being a woman and having all these advertisements of false images of what true beauty means makes it more difficult. I used to believe loving oneself includes hating what you don’t like and torturing myself every night for all the shortcomings and what not.

Your post just made me and a whole lot of other women out there beautiful inside and out.

By: Kat Sandy

Kat Sandy — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:33:09 +0000

This post really made my day. I’ve been going through somewhat of a slump and I can completely related to this. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!! I feel like an empowered female now!

By: Kasthen Velarde Rosero

Kasthen Velarde Rosero — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:07:22 +0000

I wish there was a way to favourite your poem