Kids speak the truth. We all know that. They don’t have the baggage of pleasing other people yet. They just know we shouldn’t lie. But have you ever realized that kids are super confident as well? Well, I for sure was. I was a very loud and bold and positive little kid. For example, I was super specific about the dresses I wore - They had to flow. I did a spin test on every dress. If it wasn’t floating it wasn’t for me. But there was another thing I always wanted - and my mother didn’t for me - and that was long hair. Since wigs were not a thing in my world when I grew up, I had to improvise. So what did I do? My mother had this long white cotton skirt. I just took it and flipped it up over my head - Not sure how it stayed there but it did - and I, the creative person I always was were pretending it to be my hair. And no one could stop me. I even tried to style it with hairbands and stuff. So one day my best friend I grew up with was at my apartment and we were about to leave the house. So I got ready, put my flowy dress on and the skirt on my head and my girl looked at me and said: “I’m not walking outside with you like that!” And what did I respond? “Well, then walk behind me!” - Talking about confidence!

Why am I telling this story? Because of this attitude, I want us women to get back. We lose this unapologeticness somewhere on the way when we grow older. In our teenage years, we become insecure and uncomfortable in our skin because of societal expectations and we start thinking we are not good enough. For a lot of women these extreme body changes and societal pressures, we keep getting bombarded with lead to eating disorders and extreme unhappiness within ourselves. Just like it did with me. And then we have to unlearn all of our insecurities and body dysmorphia from our teenage years to become ourselves again! And we remember the confident, bold, and unapologetic little girls we were. I think of her how she wore her skirt on her head and was so unapologetic about it and I knew she is still in me and she was always ready to come back and shine again.