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Wes Richards posted an update 8 years ago
I’ll try engaging yesterday’s prompt today. Smiling feels awkward for me. I want to feel confident when I smile but I hate how I look smiling. Crooked teeth and smile. I also remember when I used to get bullied as a kid and through my teens, I would attempt to smile or laugh to try to show it didn’t bother me. Never worked and often I was trying not to cry, so now when I smile, I still associate the way I must look to others to the way I looked to my abusers. For me, it feels vulnerable. This is a good opportunity for me to release the beliefs I hold around my smile and to use my smile as an authentic expression of how I feel and who I want to be.
Sounds like there is an opportunity to resolve and heal this. It’s okay if it feels vulnerable. Smiling is not about your old story. Smiling is about connecting to yourself and others and sharing your light and love with the world. You get to choose how you look at it!