Beauty Within

No Date for Valentine’s Day? Looking on the Bright Side

Kim-Snyder

By Kim Snyder

So you don’t have a date for Valentine’s Day, is that really a bad thing after all? Why not look on the bright side of not having a date?

Maybe for you, Valentine’s Day could be about pretending you are not envious as your friends and colleagues show off their Valentine’s gift choices. You understand that it’s for their other half, and it’s a really big deal but secretly you are wishing they would stop telling you all about it. Being single does have its advantages they do not have. (continue reading…)


Rising Above Low Self-Esteem

By Shavonta Arline

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalm 139:13-14

“I love you.” “You are so smart.” “You are so pretty.” “You can do and be anything you want to.” These were the words that I heard my mother tell me on an almost daily basis when I was a child. She constantly affirmed me whenever she could. Hearing words like those, one might think that I would grow up to be one of the most confident, esteemed women…but for a long time I wasn’t. You see, although my mother was always there to say kind words to me, someone else I was dying to hear them from wasn’t: my father. (continue reading…)


Self-Validation – How to Validate Yourself

By Margaret

From the time we are born, we need validation. Loving parents offer consistent validation to their children, validating their feelings, their perceptions, their gifts and talents, their particular form of intelligence, their interests, their kindness, caring, and intuition. You are very fortunate if you received this kind of validation from your parents.

If your parents also validated their own feelings, perceptions, and so on, then you are extremely fortunate, as you likely learned to do this for yourself from their role modeling.

However, if your parents did not validate you or themselves, then the chances are that you not only don’t know how to do this for yourself, but you don’t even know that it is your responsibility to do this for yourself. (continue reading…)


Revealing The Beauty Within

By Fia Crandall

Fear. Doubt. Not believing we deserve good things. Feeling less than Fia Crandallothers. Feeling not good enough. Shrinking down. Hiding our true self.

This is so normal in our society. To experience any or all of these on some level. It is actually more normal than the expression of the beauty and magnificence that we are all inside.

On some level we feel it is safer to shrink down. It is safer to hide our light, our beauty, to hide what makes us unique. (continue reading…)


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