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Thursday Thoughts: Guest Blogger Brianne


A big welcome to our second guest blogger, Brianne! This month we are focusing on self growth, and we asked Brianne to write up some of her recent experiences, struggles, and successes with this. We have a truly vulnerable and thoughtful series of articles to share with you over the next three Thursdays!

By Brianne Berlinski

Hello beautiful ladies, let me introduce myself! My name is Brianne; I’m a nature loving, leaf water (aka tea!) drinking, bean water (coffee, ew!) gagging kind of girl. Like everyone in the world I’ve gone through some rough and bumpy times. I’ve lost and found myself over and over but in the past year I have put forth the effort to bring happiness to myself and others…


We explored a little bit about self-care last month in our private VIP group(click here to join in the fun!). There was participation each day from this community of beautiful ladies but there was one day in particular that stood out to me.

“What is a compliment you struggle to accept about yourself?”

Most of us struggle accepting when someone says we are beautiful. We hear it now and then, compliments on how we look, how we act, our personality, our lives.

 

“You are so pretty”

“I love that outfit”

“You look/are beautiful”

Believe it or not, this is the most common compliment women struggle to accept. I can’t help but ask myself why? Why do I have such a hard time accepting that I am beautiful?

For me, growing up I had “friends” in all different groups, from the popular kids to the nerds, I was there. Although I had “friends,” people didn’t notice me. I floated in the background. No one complimented me, no one told me I looked pretty or made things easy. However, I was told that if I changed this or that maybe I would look better. If I changed my hair maybe I wouldn’t look like a boy. If I smiled more maybe someone would think I’m pretty. I was told to gain weight and then told to lose weight. My boobs are too small, my eyes are too big, my figure isn’t appealing.

Things like this can cause so many confidence issues and these shots to our minds take a long time to heal. This past year I began a journey to heal myself from all the pain of the past. I may not be able to accept the compliment that I’m beautiful from other people any time soon, but I’m working to believe it myself.

It’s always difficult to start something new, to start again, to rebuild yourself. Look in the mirror, is the person staring back at you the person you want to be? For me, the answer was no, I was overweight and depressed. Right then I knew I needed to make a change in my life to be happier and healthier. I was going to do this for myself; after all, this is the only body I have, I better treat it right. I knew with persistence and encouragement from those around me that care, I could accomplish anything I set my mind to.

I’m here to tell you, you may not believe it for yourself, you may have a mind that goes crazy with reasons why you aren’t good enough but here it is ladies:

You. ARE. Beautiful.

You. ARE. Enough.

Believe in yourself; self-care is important.

Small steps in the right direction will lead you to what you want faster than no forward motion at all. Before you know it you will say to yourself, “I did it!” So take that small step- say yes to something you’ve wanted to try, change your bedsheets, write a blog, or take a picture. It just might be the turning point you need in your life.

I believe in you, you’ve got this!

Want to know more of my journey to self-care and love? Check in again next week for how I popped my comfort bubble!

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