Accepting & Loving, While Also Improving Your Body
Self-acceptance is perhaps the most necessary achievement you can ever sustain, but it’s also one that you will likely need to maintain throughout your entire life. Acceptance and love can help us finally see ourselves as good enough, as whole, as worth everything good that comes our way. It’s important to see yourself like this because it’s absolutely true, and any other opinion is simply self-deception and putting yourself down.
However, one thing that the body-acceptance movement often neglects to suggest is that it’s perfectly fine and appropriate and necessary to accept yourself in your shapes and sizes, but this does not mean that improving yourself is an issue of the past. To take care of this is to physically CONFIRM that you are worth it, not to hide your issues or difficulties. Moving past changeable problems can help us feel even more comfortable in our skin, proud of our ability to repair ourselves.
But how can you go about this? In these potential ways:
Hair
If you’re going to have the courage of a lion, it may be worth having the mane of a lion (even if you’re a lioness!) Our hair often dictates our personality and how we feel our whole appearance is taken care of. Of course, your actual value as a person has nothing to do with your appearance, but sometimes taking care of your beautiful luscious locks can help you feel complete in your confidence. You needn’t do anything crazy, such as dying it, or even going for a dramatic new style to feel good. However, taking care of it is where the real confidence lies. By using a hair mask for damaged hair, to practice simple maintenance techniques or to visit your salon expert a little more often can help you ensure that your beautiful hair is taken care of for longer.
Stretch Marks
Stretch marks can be a natural sign of aging, or sometimes due to gaining a little weight. People often feel quite upset when they have these because they consider them unsightly. They are absolutely not, just in the same way as wrinkles aren’t unsightly. However, lessening them a little could help you feel a little more confident in your skin, and this is easy to do with many top aloe vera products on the market, none of which are ridiculously expensive. Your skin is the largest organ of your body, so it can pay to take care of it from time to time.
Dental Health
While confidence is never dictated or based in your appearance, maintenance and care will contribute to that somewhat. This is why taking care of your dental health is so important. In order to show your self-love and acceptance you need to smile from ear to ear, and doing so is only possible if you feel comfortable with the condition of your teeth. With the right gum maintenance products, the best brushing and flossing schedule, and perhaps a little polish from the dentist now and again, you can be sure to stay comfortable in your gorgeous smile. Perhaps, the only dental health effort you need is to smile more often. It can certainly help.
With these tips, accepting and loving yourself will always be grounded in self-care, the most important trinity there is.