Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Have you ever noticed that when your clothes no longer fit you suddenly feel the need to go shopping?! Shopping for things like shoes, purses, jewelry, and hair care products? These are all things that help us to feel and look pretty....okay...sometimes just feeling pretty is enough. Even when we have a strong self-esteem it is frustrating to not look the way we feel. And so, we reach into the back of our closet for "those jeans"...the ones that are so damn comfortable (because they are our current size like it or not). These jeans, for a moment, make us feel good because we can actually fit into something...something not so restricting. When we are constantly aware of our breath, our posture, and the way our inseam feels ... well ... it ain't pretty. And so we put on one of "those tops" that are flowy and long...way below the butt long. We avoid those ridiculous full length mirrors and instead refer to the one the size of our face...the make up mirror. This circle of light allows us to focus on the color of our eyes and the glow in our cheeks. We can check out our earrings and we can pucker our lips. We can cover ourselves in a shower of our favorite perfume and we can curl or straighten our hair to our heart's content. We can store all of the above products in our new purse and we can hold our head high knowing that there is still a part of us that is intact.