| Self-image is how you see yourself and how you | | | | try to live up to the expectation of others and in the |
| believe others perceive you. If you have a poor | | | | process lose their identity and personality. |
| opinion of yourself, your self-esteem will be low. The | | | | |
| way you conceive yourself is important as it will | | | | We are constantly faced with challenges in life that |
| affect your thinking, your mannerism and your | | | | can discourage us! Keeping your focus on the good |
| relationship with others. People will respond to you | | | | things that you do and the positive aspects of your |
| positively or negatively depending on how confident | | | | life can change how you feel about yourself. Building |
| you are; your confidence depends on the image you | | | | up your self-image takes effort, energy and it is not |
| have of yourself. | | | | achieved overnight! |
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| It is vital that you understand yourself by recognizing | | | | True beauty comes from deep within. Everybody |
| your strengths and weaknesses. Accepting yourself | | | | should cherish and love themselves for who and |
| and making the best of who you are helps you to | | | | what they are. Beauty comes in various forms. |
| boost up your self-confidence and your self-image. | | | | Self-image and confidence glows from within. |
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| Teens are greatly influenced by media and some | | | | In order to succeed in life, you need to feel |
| teens struggle with their self-image. They tend to | | | | confident both inside and outside. Just as you have |
| compare themselves with people around them or | | | | to accept yourself for who you are on the inside, |
| with actors and celebrities they see on television, in | | | | you need to recognize that your body is your own, |
| movies or in magazines. | | | | regardless of the shape, size and colour of your skin. |
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| Some people are so focused on what others think | | | | Make the best of who you are….there is only ONE |
| about them and this affects their self-esteem. They | | | | of you and we are all special in our own unique way! |