Journey To Self-Love: A Diary
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Last published Thu, Aug 1, 2019
My diary entries about self-love and how to turn self-consciousness into self-discovery.
I have struggled with social anxiety for about 5 years as well as low self-esteem and body image issues. I have also had brief encounters with self-harm, eating disorder and depression.
This year I decided to work on myself inside out and document my progress. Whereas I'm still not the happiest I have noticed and incredible improvement and I decided to share my experience with self-love to hopefully help or inspire others.
Many will paint self-care out to be face masks and bubble baths (which are very nice) but I will try to show you a more realistic story about learning to love yourself.
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