Valerie Lipovetsky spoke candidly about the nose job she got at age 16. Finally after years of not feeling confident with how she looked, she had the solution she sought. Except the self-doubt remained. That’s why, as she tells the audience, she preaches self-love and body acceptance despite her own plastic surgery journey. Because no matter what you do to change your appearance, it won’t matter if you don’t change how you perceive your body. Her problem was never how she looked but how she looked at herself.
Physical or not, most of us have features about ourselves and our lives that we are wishing would change. Others have had the joy of getting to that hoped for future, only to feel the same. Losing the weight, getting the job, finding the love didn’t bring you the happiness you thought it would. Probably because it never could. Before you or I work so hard to transform, how about we start by transforming how we view our lives?
I don’t mean trying to convince yourself that a horrible situation is the best thing ever. But I do mean I want to separate myself more from my circumstances and live more freely regardless of the trappings of life. I want to maintain a sense of self-worth regardless of what happens to me or around me. I will never find peace, or joy, or love, or hope, or any good feeling if I can’t find it within me first. Because no matter what I do to change my circumstances, it won’t matter if I don’t change how I perceive them.
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