BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

Believe in yourself. Sounds easy right? Sounds cliche – in one ear out the other… stop! Listen to me! Those three words have the power to shape and reshape your whole entire existence. I never believed in myself. I thought I was bad, never good enough, ugly and different. I hated my life and I hated myself.

Growing up not all of the unpleasant things I encountered were my fault or in my control, but it was too late. I turned my hate inward and bullied myself to my funeral being planned. Then I bullied myself until I was so obese I had trouble walking up the stairs. Then I bullied myself to the point I thought I’d die from bulimia… overdosing on so many laxatives as my means to purge.

It didn’t matter if I was handed 10 million dollars. It didn’t matter if I became a Victoria’s Secret model. It didn’t matter if I became the number one ranked professional tennis player. I could have had the world scream that I was beautiful, loved, worth it and good enough… and I still wouldn’t have believed it. Because you will never find the answers outside of yourself. Never.

Only when you can face the dark shadows of your soul and forgive yourself with love will your life change. The shadows will fade, the weight lifts off your shoulders, the madness stops, the healing begins and you start to walk with yourself rather than against yourself. No one can make you do it. You have to believe in yourself because you truly dig down deep and fight to believe in yourself!

Even though I believe in every single one of you it isn’t enough for me just to say so. You have to believe it for yourself. And I’m standing here today letting you all know just how powerful those three words are. Repeat after me over and over: “I believe in myself!” ~Britt