Inside Out Blog

How is everyone doing?          OK so for today's post I want to talk a little bit about self worth, which is of course tied into loving yourself unconditionally. This has been a particularly stubborn area of my life that I've had trouble with. In my previous post about 'Ways to feel beautiful' I had mentioned that I had a period of my life where I stopped taking care of myself. This was a very low time for me. I hated my body and self so much that I refused to see friends and even family. I was extremely embarrassed about my weight, I thought that I was so fat, and ashamed of the life choices I had made. Old friends wanted to see how I was and hang out, but I ignored them all and said I was busy with work and never saw them, even though I wanted to... I held back because of how disgusted at was at myself at the time. I didn't want them to see me like that and so I placed conditions on myself that I didn't DESERVE to see them because of how awful (I believed) m...

Welcome back my loves!         How did your lists go? (Check out previous blog for details) They went well I trust ;) OK so for today's post, I'm going to talk about how to feel beautiful. Some of these may sound obvious, but they are important to keep up to have your self esteem know that you are worth it. Here is an example of what I mean by that. At one point in my life, I had totally stopped taking care of myself in favor of stress, chalking it up to "I didn't have time or money", leaving my spirit depleted of the beauty and self care it craved. It wasn't until then that I realized how very important it is to feel beautiful, and once I started taking care of myself again, I lovingly and enthusiastically nourished my spirit back. It feels SO good to relish in caring for yourself and expressing your own creative beauty. And I am going to help show you how to do that.         Well first off, find out (if you don't already know) what types of be...

I want to start this blog off by helping you get to know who I am and how far I've come, so that I can help you on your journey to loving yourself too.         When I was 14 years old, I was diagnosed with Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome. PCOS is a hormonal disorder characterized by acne, extreme difficulty losing weight, blood sugar issues, anxiety, excessive body hair growth, and more. As a super shy and sensitive teenager, I gained the awful habit of being cruel to myself. And the symptoms of PCOS of course made it all worse, and even a reason to hate myself and my body even more. I remember forcing myself to go to the gym in an attempt to lose weight, and shouting at myself on the treadmill "You are FAT, you cannot stop, you have to keep going so you can be skinny!",  which as you can imagine, did not wield successful weight loss results for me. In fact, this cycle of trying and failing got so intense I even ending up fainting at one point, waking up on the...