How I Began Taking My Nude Body

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The Story Of The Semi Naked Faculty Party That Helped In Accepting My Nude Body:
Taking My Nude Body - I 've always been self conscious about my body. I was never able to walk around comfortably at school for fear of being made fun of. My body was something to be hidden, black and god forbid - shown in public.
During high school, I began working on improving my self esteem. I worked on my positive affirmations and I told myself everyday that I was amazing, even if I didn't believe it. As the days turned into weeks, I began to find that looking at my naked body in the mirror was becoming easier. I began to feel increasingly more comfortable being nude (by myself). Having said that, thinking of someone else seeing my nude body was still not an option. All this changed once I got to school.
Accepting My Naked Body
When I started school, I felt overwhelmed by the number of people I considered wonderful. It seemed like everyone was lean, confident and appealing. How was I going to live here???
I spoke with some close friends about the dilemma. My friends asked me what I thought of folks who didn't do their make up every morning or who weren't thin enough to be a model. I told them I didn't think any differently of them and that they were just people in my experience. My friends asked me why I thought that people would think otherwise of me. I didn't have an answer.
Subsequently it came to me Most folks usually do not care what you look like. And if they do, who cares! If they didn't like my appearance, they didn't have to appear. After that, my confidence increased. It was a slow process, but it was working.
I had never been comfortable attending celebrations at my university. So many of them were pajama parties, underwear parties and perhaps even naked parties. If I was just starting to feel comfortable looking at my naked body, how was I going to reveal it to anyone else?
Afterward came the day once I was invited to some college Halloween bash. The flyer said "less is more if you know what I am talking about." My buddies had helped me so much in raising my self-esteem which I thought, "why not!" That night, I had my first experience with social nudity. I wore some risque lingerie as my Halloween costume. Practically everything was revealing! I was afraid people were going to look at me like some kind of freak. http://xnudists.com was scared they were going to laugh and tell me to go home. But they didn't. Almost everyone else was dressed like I was. Some were even completely nude and a few were covered in only body paint. They were all just having a great time - partying and laughing. It was a great evening. I left the party feeling more assured than ever. My nude body, or at least most of it, was seen by strangers, yet no one laughed or ran away in terror.
I do not know if I 'll ever rid myself of my body image problems. Nor am I sure that I will ever manage to take a look at my naked body with complete recognition. What I do understand is that my first experience with public nudity was a interesting one. One that helped me in my ongoing procedure for raising my self-esteem and self acceptance (if young nudist sex pics ).
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Posted January 2, 2017 23:05