I would bet that when you were a young girl, you danced in front of the mirror, played dress up in different clothes, felt pretty and beautiful with pink lipstick on from your big sister or mom. I bet most of you related to the underdog in the fairytale movies growing up! Then somewhere along the lines maybe you lost touch with her. I always related to the “kind yet mistreated” character for some reason… I guess because I grew up poor and less fortunate but with a heart and passion of a princess.
Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid. I grew up feeling like the underdog from all these fairytale movies. I also know the most joyous and happy individuals who have more to accomplish, goals to reach and imperfections they embrace. I know the most beautiful, amazing talented women who are unhappy. Happiness comes from within our hearts and minds. It’s how we accept and love ourselves. You can be happy – starting right now if you want to. Truth is, having these goals or objectives is totally fine and up to you, but relating these changes to our level of happiness is not. I’ve heard women talk to each other about how excited they’ll be or how happy they’ll be when they lose 10lbs, get their hair highlighted or plump their lips a little. There is this idea that if we change our nose, lips, waistline, hips or hair color we’ll be happier. Enjoy every small win and lift our ambitions for what our best is, not what someone else’s best looks like.ģ. Trying to obtain the look of someone else is a losing battle! We should be trying to be the best version of ourselves and love ourselves enough to set that intention. What’s perfect about the body is that it comes in so many shapes and sizes. We have this perception that there is this ideal woman, body, shape, or size. It’s human nature. Self-acceptance doesn’t come from reaching goals, it comes from changing our mindset from “I’m not good enough” to “I love myself” as we take the journey towards those goals.
This isn’t true because no matter how much weight you lose, you’ll always want to improve something else. Most women think they have to lose weight before they can create a healthy and more loving conversation about themselves in their minds. I want to bust a few myths about how to feel happier and more in love with yourself so that you don’t become a sucker just like the evil queen. If she had just changed the conversation in her mind, those thoughts being reflected from her magic mirror would have said, “you are the fairest of them all”.ĭon’t Be a Sucker Like In The Storybook s she’d have been so much happier, more content, less stressed and less angry. We have complete control over what it says because it’s really just our thoughts reflecting back at us. The magic mirror is this image and perception we have of ourselves. It’s time t o change the conversation with our mirror.
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To my dismay, I’ve come to find out that our world is full of magic mirrors making women feel bad about themselves, unhappy with what they see, and/or unsatisfied with who they are. I never really thought about this fairytale story in a realistic sense until I started asking more women what they think of themselves when they look in the mirror. She hates Sleeping Beauty so much because the mirror keeps telling her that she is not the fairest of them all. In the Arab world, at any rate, to doubt the traditional account of Islam's origins has been to risk death threats, prosecution for apostasy, or even defenestration.Sleeping Beauty and the magic mirror that drives the wicked queen mad.
But they all had this in common: they had no effect upon the King whatsoever. Some used a mirror two used a tiny bead of blood from the magician's finger and one used a candle and a piece of ribbon. Some had probably not been used for centuries. Some were spells that Strange and Norrell had employed in some form or other every day for the last five years. Some had no words at all but consisted of a single gesture. Some of the spells were long and complicated. He cast spells of remembering, spells of finding, spells of awakening, spells to concentrate the mind, spells to dispel nightmares and evil thoughts, spells to find patterns in chaos, spells to find a path when one was lost, spells of demystification, spells of discernment, spells to increase intelligence, spells to cure sickness and spells to repair a limb that is shattered. For the next hour and a half he tried all the magic he could think of.
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