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WEEKLY AFFIRMATION 08

This affirmation inspires one of my favourite ways to perform self-love.

KIRU
2 min readFeb 21, 2022
Illustration of a person staring in the distance with symbols of positivity, love, and beauty surrounding their face.
Illustration by KIRU.

Do you ever just look in the mirror and stare in awe? How beautiful, how flawed, how perfect and complete a creation you are.

Usually when I sit down to write out my thoughts on the affirmation of the week, I have a whole five minute read about a struggle I’m going through, or a story about how “this affirmation illustrates some sort of redemption in my life,” but today’s affirmation is pretty simple.

“I am beautifully and perfectly made.” — The Book of Positive Affirmations, 2019

That’s a full stop baby. There’s nothing more to be said. You can literally close this page and use the next two to four minutes to just look at yourself and praise the beauty of you.

Back in December, when I started showing up more as a consistently active user on the platform, the fourth article I ever published to my blog on Medium was about five things I love about my body. My butt, my eyebrows, my cheekbones, my “V” line and my legs.

Looking back on that post today, I wonder what the fuck I was smoking… WHY ARE THERE NO IMAGES INSIDE THIS POST??!?!?! So here’s an image of me giving side-eye to the original…

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KIRU
KIRU

Written by KIRU

KIRU is an independent music artist, a model, an author, and a creative entrepreneur using Medium for business, for gratitude, and for brief poetic reflections.

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