The very lovely Eilidh at Mummy and Monkeys challenged me to her 5 things body confidence challenge, and as I so often see all the bad things about my face and body and am so often lacking in confidence, I thought it would be a nice thing to do.
After Eilidh realised that she always focused on the things she doesn’t like about her body, rather than all the good bits, and that her attitude needed to change so that her children don’t see her doing that, she decided to set herself a challenge to look in the mirror and choose 5 things she likes about her face and body. And then to focus on the things she likes about herself when she looks in the mirror, rather than those she doesn’t. I think it’s a lovely idea – obviously, it’s what’s inside that counts (blah blah blah), but we are always so critical of ourselves on the outside and we, of course, do want to look good, so I think it’s important to notice the bits we are happy with more, and be grateful for them. Here are five things I like about my face and body:
I’m a bit disappointed that I found it so hard to find five things I like – I could have easily said five things I don’t like! And I ended up trying to justify why I like the bits I do and explain what I don’t like too. I guess that’s something I need to work on – learning to love the parts of my body I’m not so keen on. I am grateful to my body though – it allowed me to carry my daughter and looked after her until she was ready to come out, so it’s pretty amazing really.
If you need a bit of a confidence boost and some encouragement to notice the beautiful things about you, then please join in with the challenge! As Eilidh pointed out – this isn’t just for women; body confidence in men is also so important.
If you do join in then please let me know!
What do you love about your body? I’d love to hear in the comments. Let’s all focus on the good bits!
Aww thanks for joining in 🙂 I found it really hard to think of 5 things too! Your bum one was funny though I’m the same compliments but well I don’t agree haha. Xx