>>41428913
please, please don't do that to yourself
your body deserves your love
there is no such thing as faking what you are and want to be; what you're experiencing is discomfort and the belief you're not doing it "well enough," but nobody healthy or kind or loving would ever think that of you
please remember that as a mantra: no one decent other than yourself would ever think the things you do about yourself
unironically, would you please cut the ingredients for some food instead? make something tasty, build your body beautifully
chili is wonderful this time of year and doesn't take much effort
>>41428916
nta but you can and will be beautiful to yourself and someone else
if there's one thing I've learned in two years of transition, it's that beauty starts inside first, as kindness and generosity to self, and appears on the outside when you learn to be loving, to yourself and others
beauty isn't facial features or body type but how you wield the power of choice, how we all choose every day to be beautiful to one another
I've been amazed again and again to find that whether students take me as a woman has much more to do with how I act toward them than how I look that day
you might find you "become" beautiful by focusing on kindness and generosity and how you treat yourself and others exactly because beauty is the softness and gentleness of your face and body that comes from a spirit at peace
I'm not being kitschy; I have relatively sharp features now although they're softening, and on days where I know I'm wearing a harsh expression because I'm acting unlike myself, I look more like a man, and vice versa; it's in how you work to feel internally and how that appears on the outside
you are so much more than your aesthetic. please remember
