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Overcoming Beauty Obsession: My Confession (Why I Had to Apologize to My Kids)
It’s hard being a woman. It’s even harder when you live in a culture like ours, where plastic surgery, airbrushed magazine covers and Instagram filters work overtime telling us how we should define beauty.
Getting Real
I’m about to just lay it out there. Transparent. All the ugly.
The Lord really convicted me, all of a sudden, late one night. And I want to share it with you because I know I’m not the only one who struggles.
Pressure From Culture
It’s hard being a woman. It’s even harder when you live in a culture like ours, where plastic surgery, airbrushed magazine covers and Instagram filters work overtime telling us how we should define beauty.
We have an innate desire to be beautiful. I’m pretty sure of that. And very few of us are probably completely content with our appearance.
I have struggled with physical self-acceptance my whole life. I compare. I want to be beautiful but I don’t look like her. At a very young age, I started soaking up beauty tips and tricks to try to improve my appearance.
