Loving Yourself

Isn't it silly that loving yourself is one of the hardest things to do? According to Confidence Coalition, Three-fourths of girls with low self-esteem engage in negative activities, such as disordered eating, bullying, smoking or drinking and 1 in 3 girls between the ages of 16 and 18 say sex is expected for people their age if they’re in a relationship. In my opinion, if girls struggling with self-esteem understood their worth, or even half of how much potential they have to become the amazing woman each girl can become, then these statistics would be drastically different. How do we get girls to understand their worth? Well, each girl is unique and may require a specific approach but what I've done to help girls understand their worth is create a program called "Celebrate Yourself: Combat Bullying by Building Self-Esteem." In this program I go over step by step of each girls accomplishments, goals, talents, and positive role models and it is my belief if young woman focus on these 4 things then their self-esteem will rise and their lives with be changed forever. But, I understand that just one of these "Celebrate Yourself" presentations isn't going to immediately make a girl have self-esteem. I hope that I can provide the tools, by helping girls recognize these 4 key things, then they can make the life-changing choice of looking at themselves  in a positive way. Also according to Confidence Coalition, "Only 2% of women think they are beautiful." It is my personal mission to significantly raise this number just so simply girls can look at themselves as beautiful and love themselves.