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Oh hey self confidence it has been awhile.

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In honor of this post I have given my blog a face lift, it was time to change it since it has been the same since 2007! What I am about to type is something that is very personal, an inner demon that I have been struggling with for too long - since moving to Indonesia I have made major advances against this "demon" and I think now is a good time to share. This is not an easy thing for me to post in a blog - it is something private, something I like to keep close and quiet. But here we go. . . I have struggled a long time with insecurities - mostly surrounded around my weight. I believe it all started shortly after we moved to Canada. I was a lot taller and a lot heavier then most of the girls in my new grade 5 class and kids at that age have a thing with pointing differences out. The mentality of "if I could just be 20 pounds lighter life would be perfect." has plagued me since that year we moved here. That is eleven years . . . ELEVEN YEARS of thinking that I am n...