Self Love
Once I learned to love myself, at any size, my world began to open up again. I was stuck in a cycle of waiting to lose weight - I’ll get up on that stage and sing when I lose 20 pounds - I’ll take that flight when the seatbelt fits me properly. When I met my bestie and saw that she didn’t let anything hold her back from doing what she enjoyed, I realized that I too could have that freedom back. I got myself a damned seatbelt extension and I traveled somewhere different every single month in 2015. I also started to discover my love for fashion again, instead of hiding behind baggy everything and hoping to fade into the background. Soon enough, my bestie and I were shopping on the regular, and I had a wardrobe I could be proud of; both professional and feminine, and not looking like a fabric my grandmother would choose for a couch.