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Truly Beautiful

By Caroline Raphael · On November 14, 2014

Today I stand here as a beauty-full woman. I look at myself and am blown away with who I see before me: a strong, confident, powerful and truly beautiful woman.

Not something I pictured for myself when I was a teenager. Riddled with insecurities and self-doubt, all I had to go by was how I looked on the outside.

Did I fit the picture of beauty everyone was looking for? Often not. But worse, I didn’t fit my own picture.

I felt miserable on the inside. Lost and unsure of who I was. There was a time I would look in the mirror and all I saw was pain and confusion. And often, an ugliness that I didn’t know the source of… who was that looking at me?

Today, I glow and radiate an inner confidence and inner strength of knowing exactly who I am – a truly beautiful woman. And more than that, I live the loveliness of that every day.

Recently I read an article that said only 4% of women feel they are beautiful… how truly sad. How is it that this kind of miserable statistic can exist when we are all truly beautiful… what happens?

You only have to look into the face of a child to know we are all truly divine and precious. How then is it possible for some of us to be able to look into a mirror and see nothing but ugliness and criticism?

So what changed for me?

Thanks to the work of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon I heard about the simple yet sometimes not so easy steps to self-care and self-love – both very foreign concepts to me at the time – however, they made sense, so I was willing to give them a try.

What I learned was I was being driven by a world telling me how to be, look, act and think. Thanks to being more self-loving and caring I was given the space to feel for myself what was true for me or not. So today I stand free of most of those impositions and as a result no longer feel ugly from living what is not me.

Today I stand as me… in the beauty and joy of that… and now show a different way, not ashamed or afraid to say I am truly beautiful.

As I have been inspired by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to love and care for myself and claim my own beauty, today I inspire others to also claim their beauty as they too will inspire another… and so on it goes, ‘til one day we all know how truly amazing and truly beautiful we are!

By Caroline Raphael, Goonellabah, NSW

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Caroline Raphael

I was the kid at school always in trouble for laughing. I find the funny side to anything and during my most difficult times laughter and play-fullness are my best medicine. And most of all I love people. I love everything about them, all our quirky ways and funny expressions - and most of all I love nothing more than observing others care for each other, it melts me and there simply is nothing more beautiful.

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766 Comments

  • Vicky Cooke says: January 19, 2020 at 8:30 am

    Beauty is nothing to do with the outside and everything to do within. I love hearing how you feel about yourself now super cool ✨ An inspiring reflection for all.

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  • Annoymous says: July 29, 2019 at 6:08 am

    “What I learned was I was being driven by a world telling me how to be, look, act and think” freedom only comes by dropping all the C**** that has been put on us and letting go of pictures we have been fed.
    Freedom is knowing who we are and expressing from there.

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  • Michelle McWaters says: June 16, 2019 at 6:00 pm

    ‘Recently I read an article that said only 4% of women feel they are beautiful… how truly sad. How is it that this kind of miserable statistic can exist when we are all truly beautiful… what happens?’ I have always loved children and have always seen in them their utter gorgeousness and beauty in spite of any behaviour issues. To me it simply doesn’t make sense that each individual child then grows up unable to see that loveliness for themselves, instead choosing to feel like they are unworthy or lesser.

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