SELF LOVE <3

Self love is so important.

This morning I was really thinking about how important it is to actually love yourself. you hear things like “self-love” and, “make yourself your number 1 priority”, but what does that really mean? To me, it means making peace with yourself. accepting yourself for who you are and creating a relationship with yourself that is based on love, honesty, and communication. I think that so often we get caught up in the idea of self-improvement and thinking that we need to change ourselves in order to be happy. but I really believe that happiness comes from accepting yourself and loving yourself just as you are.

I think it’s important to ask yourself what you need in order to feel loved, and then make an effort to give those things to yourself. It is so important to remember that you are enough for yourself. you are the only one who can make yourself truly happy. If you feel like you are struggling to love yourself, I encourage you to be patient and gentle with yourself. It takes time to develop a healthy relationship with yourself, but it is so worth it. some things you can do to help yourself love yourself more:

-make a list of things you love about yourself

-be accepting of your flaws and mistakes

-practice self-compassion

-set boundaries with yourself and others

-speak kindly to yourself

-give yourself permission to feel all of your emotions

-be patient with yourself

remember that you are worthy of love, and you are capable of giving yourself the love that you need. ♥

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Thank you for your attention, I wanted to thank you for this opportunity and wish all the best to everyone in the room. For a lot of people eating disorders are something they cannot really talk about or describe through words. It is rather challenging trying to make other people understand what an eating disorder is like. It is like trying to describe the color indigo to a blind person, there's not much you can do about it. Still, I would like to give it a try. Just imagine waking up in the morning and looking into your mirror, maybe taking some selfies or photos of yourself when you find that "perfect angle". You are wearing your favorite top, the one that enhances your ''assets'' just perfectly. You are feeling confident and beautiful. It is the day of the big party at school and you have to look perfect!Suddenly something catches your eye in the corner of your bedroom, or maybe it's because you chose to wear a less appealing shirt today? Who knows.

Anyway, in a blink of an eye you go from feeling confident and beautiful to being so embarrassed and ashamed of yourself that you can't even look at yourself in the mirror anymore. This is what it feels like having body dysmorphia. Having a healthy self esteem is something we all strive for. But is it really that easy? How can you claim to love yourself if you cannot even accept the way you look? The answer is, you cannot. When you are 13 years old kids at school can be pretty harsh about your looks and it has a major impact on teenagers. Especially girls are very critical towards themselves. They always think they are not pretty enough because the girls you see on the magazines are photoshopped, perfect dolls without any blemishes or bad angles. On every corner of the street you will find billboards with skinny girls advertising lipsticks or jeans that make their hips look two times bigger while their waist looks like it belongs to a 12 year old. Is that really what we consider beautiful?

We, as a society, should learn to accept everyone as they are and not try to force our idea of beauty upon others. People need to learn the difference between being skinny and anorexic, it is important because those two things have been confused for so long now. It is not the same. I know this was a very theoretical speech about body dysmorphia and how it feels to suffer from an eating disorder but I hope I managed to make you understand what kind of struggles these girls are facing everyday. This is why it is so important for us, as society, to be more understanding towards others without bringing them down or trying to make them feel dissatisfied with themselves. Everyone has flaws and it is okay to want to change things about yourself, but don't overdo it! It is not worth going through all this pain for a perfect body. I hope I managed to raise awareness about eating disorders.

Alright, that's it for today! If you would like to look more into the topic I will be updating my website soon. Remember to always stay Shameless of who you are.

Xoxo, Gianna

PAGEANTS

What are my take aways?

Everybody learns something different while competing in a pageant. A lot of people think pageants are about putting tons of make up on, having the best hair styles or having the most expensive dress. But they are so much more than putting on makeup tons of makeup and finding that dress. They teach us to compete against people we do not know and to still feel confident enough in ourselves to think we can still come out on top. They teach us to be the best versions of ourselves we can be.

Years ago, I could never have brought myself to compete in a pageant. I would see ads on Instagram and think, “this is just not for me.” It’s scary to think about how many opportunities we miss at becoming our best selves just because we don’t believe in ourselves. I am proud to say, however, that I competed in my first pageant last weekend, The Miss Michigan Teen USA pageant. This pageant showed me what it’s like to be a woman.

To be a woman is to be powerful and assertive, compassionate, and vulnerable towards who and what we love in our lives without feeling weak for doing so. It means striving for our goals even in the face of the adversity we may encounter along the way. And most importantly, it means to be confident in who we are. I believe that everything happens for a reason and being able to participate in this pageant has prepared me with confidence and communication skills that would’ve taken me a lifetime to learn.

If you are a young girl wondering if a pageant is right for you, I recommend you give it a try. Pageants are made for any kind of girl- women of all shapes and sizes. It was a life changing opportunity, and I walked out with way more confidence than I could ever imagine. Why not give it a try?

-Strength, Confidence, Beauty.

“ShameLess”

SELF LOVE <3

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