I am... One Month of Affirmations

For SOOO long, I have wanted to be “normal”. I wanted to fit in. I wanted guys to like me, girls to want to be friends with me. I wanted to be pretty, smart, athletic, everything to everyone. As I entered college my freshman year, I started to settle in to my own skin. The idea I was loud, tall, smart, different, and that people thought that was pretty cool. I had thought that the assault had been the reason I reverted back to wanting to be all these things for everyone else, instead of what I wanted to be. I am realizing that while that may have been part of it, the reality was I still focused on what other people wanted me to be or expected me to act. I never had defined who I am or want to be on my own terms.

So this past month, the month of love, February, I set a goal on spend all 28 days posting amazing things about myself. This idea that if I wanted to put me out there, all the amazing parts of me and maybe others would follow.

I am:

• A unique

• Sassy

• Passionate

• Vocal

• A survivor

• Stronger than I even know sometimes

• Deserving of love and happiness

• Worthy

The list goes on but the reality remains... I am a work in progress and that is okay because I am continuing to love myself whether I am needy or independent - both carry value and meaning, both are who make me up.

So cheers to all of you out there loving yourselves a little more each day.