What is SELF-IMAGE?

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