I do not like myself.

I hate myself.

I know what it's like to hate yourself.

I know what it's like to want to change every single facet of your face and your body.

And I still have insecurities.

Who we are becoming is more important than what we look like.

She may be beautiful, but that doesn't steal and take away from my beauty and my own uniqueness.

It doesn't matter how gorgeous or hot or whatever you are if your reputation doesn't supersede that. We're trying to fight being self-obsessed. We're trying to become secure.

Oh, you don't like me? Okay, bye, because someone else will. We will always find something else to

pick. We might fix one thing and be like, okay, now I don't like this. Now it's like we're always moving the bar and the goal and the standard. So you might

as well just like yourself for who you are because it's already good. If we don't let God and

his word tell us who we are and we don't wholeheartedly believe that, something else, the world or other people or lies and false opinions, those are going

to begin to dictate who we really think we are.

What's up, everybody, and welcome back to happy and healthy podcast. My name is Janine Amapola Ward,

and this is a Christian podcast. And I'm so excited to do today's episode. If you are new here,

I just want to let you know you are so welcome. I post every single Tuesday and we do faith-based topics. And this is all just

trying to come from the Word of God and also my own experiences. I just turned 31 years old and I am

33 weeks pregnant, which is so crazy. I have just a little bit more time left to go. And I'm having my first

baby, and he is a boy, and I'm so excited. And really, I've just been sharing my life in this

journey of just everything since I was 17 years old. And some of you guys have been following me

for a very long time. And I just

hit 500,000 followers on Instagram, which is just such an honor. And I feel so, so thankful.

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