Arizona

Perfect!

She had first sent me a beautiful picture of her nursing her baby but we didn't want to get flagged so she then sent me this 

Arizona

From another friend who isn't ready to make a poster

"I really like the stuff you have been posting. I really like the t-shirts. I wish I heard that I was beautiful more growing up and even now to be honest. A person needs to hear that , and that they are enough whether they wear sweats and a tee or a fancy outfit. Love it."

Georgia

"Sure it was easy to write them they are just words until I truly believe them.

It made me think that it could be possible to be all I want to be.

When people see my picture with my poster what do they see... Do they think I think I'm beautiful? Do they think that of me? I hope one day I can truly feel good with what I'm working with and working on is the key.

It's crazy how people can bring you down or bring you up!

I have days where I look in the mirror and I'm like wow I look pretty today. But I've never felt beautiful on an average day. My wedding day I felt beautiful in every way. I feel that others around me brings down, use me, and step on me. I like to think I have a strong beautiful heart but it's hard when the out side conflicts. As far as my appearance no I don't think I'm beautiful on the out side. I'm not thin or have cute clothes or know how to wear make up. I'm working on becoming what I want but it's taking time..lol all in all I have a wonderful family and I'm trying my best to do what we need. I'm taking care of my body and trying to be a good person. Not today not tomorrow but I hope one day I can hold this sign up and truly believe the words on it ."

Arizona

From a cousin.

She told me I could share this since she isn't quite ready to make her own poster yet.

"I was doing the poster....but it is way harder than I thought it would be :(.

Doing it may take a bit of time because its so hard....why is that?

I have thought and wrote it out but can't seem to do it. Then I rewrite and rewrite it and try to say I'm strong, and those wishes are true but I don't even believe myself.

I'm fine admitting I don't believe the positive qualities I have and that People say I have because I've spent too long focusing on the negative and tearing myself down.  Building myself up and bringing in positive things is a daily and constant struggle. 

Cute shirts by the way. I go to counseling for verbal, physical and emotional abuse. The therapist really focuses on "I am Enough." "I am Me" "I am worth it".  

You are on the right track with your I am Statements. "

So after talking with her I made this design for another shirt.

She loved it and I do too :)

Utah

When asked

Was it easy for you to write those things?

"I just thought of the things my husband says to me"

How did you feel when you were writing the positives?

"That I do need to give myself credit"

How did this experiment help you and the way you feel about yourself?

"I guess I have a hard time seeing my beauty. I have a hard time dieting and exercising, so I am Beautiful the way I am! Even if I'm overweight"

UTAH

From a friend who is not yet ready to make her own poster but said I could share her comments :)

" I really love your blog, and I love the whole IDEA of your blog! It is very uplifting and healing to read. I especially love the chair "exercise" that you suggest doing.  
http://projectiambeautiful.blogspot.com/p/this-is-from-anonymous-its-amazing-and.html

I think the reason that some of us have a difficult time writing posters with nice things about ourselves, is because (with me, at least) we have lost a lot of that childlike mentality that once came so naturally for us---care-free, full of faith, full of hope, and full of love! Children are some of the most noble examples I know!

I wish, for a short time, that I could go back to those care-free days of my childhood---the days of chasing chickens in my backyard, collecting golf balls on the golf course behind my house, jumping off the roof into piles of snow, burying my body in the warm sand of my sandbox so I could play outside in the cold just a little bit longer, laying on the soft green grass-- finding beautiful pictures in the clouds, believing that all adults were faithful to each other after they got married. Those were the days!  

Don't get me wrong---There are many aspects of my life that I love now, too ---they are just different. I love the knowledge I have gained---along with all of the good AND the bad experiences! I love my beautiful children. I love seeing them make good choices and succeed and even excel in the things they desire. I love seeing them succeed in ways that I never did! 

But--I will be honest, I have not had an easy life--ESP. in my later teenage years, and even more so--my married years---they have been downright ROUGH. They have been full of challenges...mostly ones that have opened my eyes to the harsh sense of reality of the world, and tugged at my self-esteem and sense of self-worth, like nothing has before! I have lots of work to do in the area of self-worth!! 


So---THANK YOU for doing this!!   It truly is a beautiful, worthwhile project, Aimee."

Arizona

"When I wrote it I was just writing, but seeing it everyday and saying

 it starts to make a difference and you start to believe it..."

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Kansas

"I have worked to believe these things over the past several years, and I could talk about some of the reasons I didn't believe that in the past, But I think the whole thing that makes this great is how it focuses on the positive. Once we've overcome these feelings we don't need to focus on the things in the past that created the challenge. The whole point is that we are free of that now and can focus on our hope for the future!"

About making her poster

"It was easy at the time, but they were things that would have been very hard to write 2-3 years ago. They were things I hard worked herd to believe through several years of counseling. I felt like though I had learned and overcome the negative opposites a reminder never hurts. The actual holding and taking a picture was easy. I hung it up in my bathroom, and when I am having a hard day it is good to see it there."