self image Archives - Women in The Church of Jesus Christ https://womenseekingchrist.org/tag/self-image/ Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Live -- Glimpses into Latter-day Saint Life Fri, 22 May 2009 14:42:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Review, Reflect and Return: Beauty https://womenseekingchrist.org/2009/05/22/review-reflect-and-return-beauty/ https://womenseekingchrist.org/2009/05/22/review-reflect-and-return-beauty/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 11:59:43 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=1350 This week, we are sharing a link to a post about the beauty God has created. Read it, think it over, and come back and share your thoughts. Over the years, I have sung that song from “West Side Story”—“I feel pretty, oh so pretty!” and have laughed. I felt anything BUT pretty. I have […]

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]]> This week, we are sharing a link to a post about the beauty God has created. Read it, think it over, and come back and share your thoughts.

Over the years, I have sung that song from “West Side Story”—“I feel pretty, oh so pretty!” and have laughed. I felt anything BUT pretty. I have spent my entire lifetime feeling unattractive.

To be truthful, I was somewhat taught that I was not pretty. I could share a litany of comments from various people in my life: “You’ll never be beautiful so work on your personality.” “Your friend is pretty and you are smart. That’s just the way it is.” And one of my personal favorites when I was considering serving a mission as a young adult: “You’re not ugly enough to go on a mission.” Ugly? Enough? Uh, OK…

So you can imagine how I felt when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and told that I had to have a mastectomy… {Read More}

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