I love this new series Anna, I’m so excited to see what the topic will be next week 🙂
Couldn’t agree more with this post, I think is such a fine line between women expressing themselves and showing off their femininity and exploiting themselves and making others feel extremely insecure.
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Jenna
This is fantastic Anna. Such a blessing and I can’t wait to see God work through it! Praying for you and your fantastic witness on this blog girlie. Have a blessed weekend. xo
I’m a new reader of yours and this series sounds amazing!! what a great message to our hearts as women of any age..so i love this idea for saturdays and will be joining in ready with my cup of tea:))
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I’m really looking forward to you continuing these posts! you’re such a fabulous lady!
I think we also see ourselves differently than others see us – and we tend to forget that. I happen to think that every one of my friends is absolutely beautiful. I see them on good and bad days and they are always so beautiful to me! Do they feel that way about themselves? Do they know? Even models don’t walk around feeling beautiful all day, every day. It has to come from within first – which is the hardest part to achieve! Building each other up helps.
And of course, Anna, YOU are so beautiful!!!
I’m really liking this series! This post couldn’t ring more true to heart! Girls I know were changing their profile pictures to the VS models and saying how fat they feel! Then everyone was pinning juice cleanses and workouts constantly. Not for good but for feeling inadequate! I think if anything the VS models have is confidence and THATS what the girls want so badly.
I agree that it is thoughtful of you to share these. Contemporary feminism is still relevant. So much of blogging and the internet is focused on consumerism, buying ‘beauty’ and showing off. I do worry what messages young girls receive about what our culture really values about women- namely their bodies. Fortunately, many are intelligent and strong enough to still be content with themselves and value the right things. Still, it’s refreshing to hear these ideas being discussed and widely shared. Cheers!
yes and more yes to this new series Anna! ignite and inspired shares between us ladies of the world really does bring about a certain brightness within our internal light bulbs. mine turned up to 100 watts after reading Elizabeth’s share! what a beautiful writer and wordsmith.
ah comparison and its many road rashed induced pot holes. she’s nailed it with a resonant truth. well done and well said! ♥
good read! thank you for sharing it with us.
one of the best posts i ve ever read on blogs!!well there is this problem that many girls-women try to look like a model and thus many of these girls are lead to anorexia!!every girl is beautiful but she needs to find out that element that makes her gorgeous!! we need to understand that having a nice body ,it doesn;t mean that we are stunning…focusing on the inside of our soul will make our day and so being in a good mood we are capable of fixing everything!!i also love the cinderella story you wrote on part 2!!
ps:hope every girl is happy with who/what she is..if not she can work on it!! 🙂
have a nice day ladies!! 🙂
What a great post! It is sad that we women feel so insecure about our looks. I think a strong faith and a wonderful husband can help us see past those insecurities and realize that we are beautiful in God’s eyes…and that’s all that really matters.
Thanks so much for sharing! I love the whole talk about dressing sacred and seeing oneself that way…and the analogy of Cinderella. PERFECT!
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I agree, I am going to love this series! I really enjoy reading when bloggers dish on “real” issues out there. Can’t wait to go read part two of Elizabeth’s article!
I love this! Sooo true!! Our pastor just preached on something like this today and I thought of this that I had read yesterday!
I can’t wait for part 2!
Kirsten
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What a lovely post and sentiment! She is right on – why can’t women just be women sometimes? Taking it back and regarding women as sacred is a beautiful start!
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Chic ‘n Cheap Living
what a gift this perspective is. thank you for sharing. i’m super pumped for the rest of this series : )
I’m usually not online much on the weekends. But I will definitely be back saturday mornings. What a lovely post. Like Charlotte said “the victorians were on to something”.
Loved this! Can’t wait to read more of the series. I definitely have a problem comparing myself to airbrushed models, so it’s nice to get some perspective. Thank you!
love this series idea!!
Amazing topic. In fact, I was hoping you would do a post about this :). I am sharing with everyone!!
Cheers.
Love this Anna, thanks for sharing.
This blew me away, thank you for sharing Anna and for taking such a stand and being such a great role model.