How I Began Accepting My Nude Body

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The Narrative Of The Semi Nude School Celebration That Helped In Taking My Nude Body:

Taking My Naked Body - I 've always been self conscious about my body. I was never able to walk around comfortably at school for anxiety about being made fun of. http://talewiki.com/cushion.php?https://nudist18.xyz was something to be hidden, shameful and god forbid - revealed in public.

During high school, I started working on improving my self esteem. As the days turned into weeks, I started to notice that looking at my nude body in the mirror was becoming easier. I started to feel increasingly more comfortable being nude (by myself). That said, the idea of someone else seeing my nude body was still not an alternative. All this changed once I got to school.

Accepting My Nude Body

Once I started school, I felt overwhelmed by the number of people I considered beautiful. It seemed like everyone was thin, confident and attractive. How was I going to live here ???

I talked with some close friends about the issue. I told them I did not think any differently of them and that they were just people to me. http://ghad.us/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=nudistspic.com asked me why I believed that folks would think differently of me. I didn't have an answer.

Subsequently it came to me Most people don't care what you look like. And if they do, who cares! If they didn't enjoy my appearance, they did not have to look. After that, my confidence grew. It was a slow process, but it was working.

I'd never been comfortable attending celebrations at my university. So many of them were pajama parties, underwear parties as well as naked parties. If I was just starting to feel comfortable looking at my nude body, how was I going to show it to anyone else?

Then came the day after I was invited to a school Halloween party. The flyer said "less is more if you know what I mean." My friends had helped me so much in raising my self-esteem that I thought, "why not!" That night, I had my first encounter with social nudity. Practically everything was showing! I was afraid people were going to look at me like some sort of freak. http://dianejordan.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=nudistclip.com was scared they were going to laugh and tell me to go home. But they didn't. Almost everyone else was dressed like I was. Some were even totally naked and a few were covered in only body paint. They were all just having a great time - partying and laughing. It was a great evening. I left the party feeling more confident than ever. My naked body, or at least most of it, was seen by strangers, yet no one laughed or ran away in horror.

I don't know if I 'll ever rid myself of my body image issues. Nor am I confident that I will ever have the capacity to take a look at my naked body with complete acceptance. What I do know is that my first experience with public nudity was a fun one. One that helped me in my continuing procedure for raising my self esteem and self-acceptance (if not "body love").

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