No matter what we look like, they tell us we are not good enough. They cement the deep hole of "not being good enough" within us. The more they make us feel inadequate, the more they succeed.

We let them tell us what is wrong with us.

We are beautiful. We are strong. We don't need their beauty standards projected upon us.

Curly haired people want straight hair, straight haired people want curly. We are taught to want what we do not have. We are taught to not love what we are blessed to have.

We need to stop subscribing to their manufactured standards of beauty.

It's not about throwing your personal standards of beauty out the window and not taking care of yourself. On the contrary, it's about not letting their fake standards of beauty infiltrate and take over your own standards. It's about having your own healthy standards that are based on giving your body the nutrition, exercise and love it needs to feel great and operate at it's best potential.

So much pain. So much hurt. So much anorexia.

So much self hate.

We have to build positive community around healthy living, around showing our bodies self love.

We are beautiful. It's time we stop giving them the power they do not deserve.