Codependency Support Group
Codependency is defined as someone who exhibits too much, and often inappropriate, caring for another person's struggles. A codependent person may try to change, or feel shame about their most private thoughts and feelings if they conflict with the other person's struggles. If you are on a journey towards self-love, this support group is for you. Join us and find others...
Hi everyone
I have difficulty projecting and asserting myself. I am 33, tall and well my boyfriend says im gorgeous, but i just dont see it. I have a habit of comparing myself to girls who are models, celebs, or just basically anyone who i think is gorgeous and pretty, and then that just makes me feel like crap, and i say why cant i be good looking and different. My parents didnt really boost my self esteem as i was growing up and very too over protective whihc prevented me from growing in anyway so then i came depressed, suffered with my self esteem and eating problems. I am jealous of my 16 year old niece as she is indian and her parents are encouraging her to modelling and she has just into the finals of a competition called teen queen. I have signed up to a star now - which is a website with jobs for models, actors, singers etc, but i havent got no where with it, and i just think im ugly. I wear glasses and can no longer even wear contacts and that makes me feel crap about my image and myself in general. I really want to try modelling, but it may be too late as 33 is no age to start at something like that. You also have to be really skinny and i am a size 10/12 - i cant compete with all those beautiful wome nand girls can i?
I have difficulty projecting and asserting myself. I am 33, tall and well my boyfriend says im gorgeous, but i just dont see it. I have a habit of comparing myself to girls who are models, celebs, or just basically anyone who i think is gorgeous and pretty, and then that just makes me feel like crap, and i say why cant i be good looking and different. My parents didnt really boost my self esteem as i was growing up and very too over protective whihc prevented me from growing in anyway so then i came depressed, suffered with my self esteem and eating problems. I am jealous of my 16 year old niece as she is indian and her parents are encouraging her to modelling and she has just into the finals of a competition called teen queen. I have signed up to a star now - which is a website with jobs for models, actors, singers etc, but i havent got no where with it, and i just think im ugly. I wear glasses and can no longer even wear contacts and that makes me feel crap about my image and myself in general. I really want to try modelling, but it may be too late as 33 is no age to start at something like that. You also have to be really skinny and i am a size 10/12 - i cant compete with all those beautiful wome nand girls can i?
Forget about this impossible standard of looks, and develop your brain and heart. Get aggressive in some physical activity. Engage your mind in something that stimulates you. Projection and assertion kinda happens naturally when you find something outside yourself that you truly love, so much that you'd kill for it.