As I stated on my Facebook page, I wanted to give a little bit more details regarding this amazing pic! First of all...GIRL POWER! Yes, I so said it! This initiative is a movement and a community of women coming together to uplift one another and to push one another to their highest potential. It is our responsibility to love ourselves and in turn free another sister to love herself.
When my boyfriend and I first started dating, he always would joke about me being a feminist. Yes! A feminist because I simply don't take stupidity thrown at me especially from those of the opposite sex. I just don't handle it well lol. Many times, we as women have to always be understanding without never being understood. We always have to be empathetic and apologetic for having tough skin, the same tough skin that only developed because of the manifestation of ideas of what a woman should be that surrounded us.
My mommy taught me to keep God first, be strong and to always love myself. And I can not lie, when I was younger (before puberty & some time after) I would always doubt myself and although I was young and very wet behind the years, I have grown to regret that way of thinking now.
If I was then who I am now, I probably would have excelled a lot further with my passions and I probably wouldn't be working where I am working, might not have even gone to the college I know and love. Eeeeeh but life happens, and its really no need to regret where you are because you are where you were meant to be ultimately.
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This picture above represents just that. My struggle in learning who Mahalia truly is. She is loving & kind and omgee so goofy. She can be extremely determined OR extremely lazy. She tends to go with the directions of her feelings or discernment. She can at times be really mean when she has one of those "oooh my wig too tight" headaches (btw she will rock a wig real quick). She is also learning what it means to truly be celibate with her heart. She is lover but will fight and she loves being transparent. She was once close to 200lbs, she has a bit of a tummy and yet she takes pride in her hourglass shape and full beautiful lips.
I really don't know what direction I was trying to take this post but I do know that we as women have to be able to truly take a look in the mirror and just take everything in with no photoshop. What do you see? I dare you to take a moment and truly just write about who you see when you look in the mirror. Do you like her?
We all have pasts that contribute to some of the hardships we struggle with today. But if I let that be an excuse to not search for better then what can I teach my future daughters? How can I be an example of the type of woman my son can date? I couldn't be. If I allowed the demons of my past to overtake me, I would probably be single for the rest of my life. Many people would be surprise by some of the struggles I dealt with in my past but you know what? It made me.
I was born and made with my own customized struggles, but each day I wake up and I have a decision to either be lazy and not make any moves or get up and move forward. Where I came from does not determine who I am, where I am, or where I am going. I believe that the IAMTHATGIRL Founders definitely know that it is time for a lot of us to take back our strength in a positive way. One of the main things I love about this is that it has entirely nothing to do with race but actually about us! Just us & I love it! And I am always down for some amazingly beautiful Girl Power talk ;)
Know your worth beautiful. Be a scholar of your God given beauty.
"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well" - Psalms 139:14
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