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Yes...I know! I still can't believe I could ever do this and I am astonished at how great I feel about myself. People can change - and grow. I am proof.

For many different reasons, I lived 40 years with no self-confidence. I thought I was dumb, ugly and said stupid things. I just knew that people didn't like me or were judging me. Because this was so debilitating, it molded me into the person I had become. All of my words I spoke, my actions and my choices were driven by this constant fear of not being accepted.

I slowly started to become a little less shy but still felt very insecure about myself. Then, I had my epiphany at a church retreat a week before my 40th birthday. God made me this way, just as I am (even with the things I had considered flaws), because He wanted me just like this - His own beautiful creation.

I had a realization that to NOT respect myself, learn to love who I was, and appreciate the body He had created, was a total disrespect, a slap in the face, to Him. Since realizing this, my entire world has turned upside-down. I did not need anyone on this earth to accept me or love me, because He did.

I then grew remarkably fast and felt a confidence I had never, ever experienced before. Speaking to people was not a problem. I started to like this body that had been created for me and feel proud of the "mommy changes" I had earned. I saw everything differently and had a new appreciation for the small things in life - the blue hue in the sky, the bird flying by. I began to realize that because we are here for an unknown, and possibly short, amount of time, we are wasting moments that were intended for us to live with PASSION. I had wasted so many thoughts, minutes, hours and days worrying about my lack of confidence and strength, that I had become selfish in a way. For someone to think so little of herself sure was spending alot of time thinking about herself!

I feel like so many women that I talk to have many of the same thoughts and I would love to help them. We are so busy being busy that we do not take the time to honor ourselves and the beautiful gift that we are. We need to appreciate every little or big curve. Turn our ideas that they are our "flaws" into our "work of art".