Thank you so much for your post Jen. My subscription of the Ensign ran out right before we moved and I haven't renewed it yet, so this was a wonderful way for me to remember to check the website to see what articles are available.
When I read the articles you linked to, the one that stood out to me was the one about the woman who was engaged and had feelings of low self-worth. She felt as if she wasn't "lovable" and built a wall around herself to protect herself. When reading that, I was thinking that I could have written that myself. I have built a wall around myself to protect myself from being hurt or rejected....both in romantic situations and general social situations. It gave me hope to read that her feelings went away as she retrained herself to think of herself as being worthy of having someone love her and think her beautiful. This is something that I have lately been working on.
Last month we had a wonderful Relief Society meeting. A woman from the ward told us about this business she has where she gives women make-overs and does a photo shoot for them. She says that while she does that, she helps them work on their self-worth. One thing she makes them do is look in a mirror and say "I am beautiful". She read some quotes from conference talks about self worth and how we compare ourselves to each other too much. We need to love who we are, no matter what shape we are. Then they played a short video from Mormon Messages called "My New Life" about a woman who was in an accident and survived with burns on her body and it gives such a wonderful message. http://www.youtube.com/MormonMessages#p/f/2/KHDvxPjsm8E The whole night was a reminder that WHO we are is not determinded by what we look like. Yes, we need to be healthy and take care of ourselves of course...but Heavenly Father loves us no matter what and we should love ourselves too. When we let go of those feelings of doubt, the Spirit can support us, can strengthen us, and can open us to feel the love of our Father in Heaven.
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Thank you for sharing Ali. I too was especially touched by the article about the woman who nearly called off her engagement. I think that it is more of a problem that people realize!!
Your RS meeting sounded fabulous! Wish I could have been there!
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