Why I Started This Blog/Ministry

At about age 13 I started struggling with self-hatred. I started just not liking my physical appearance, but it didn't take long and I didn't like ANYTHING about myself. Not my looks, not my talents, not my personality, nothing! At 15, I pretty much hated myself. The strange thing was that I wanted to like myself and knew that I should, but I didn't know how to. No matter what I did; reading the books, listening to the songs, memorizing the Bible verses, telling myself the truth, nothing worked and I was just getting frustrated with myself. I hated myself for hating myself. NOT a fun place to be in, Eventually I realized what my problem was; I knew it all in my head, but I didn't believe it in my heart. 

Then, in the summer of 2014, when I was 16/17, I went to camp at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. One of the main topics during the camps was that God doesn't just love me, He actually likes me. He enjoys me and delights in me. Through that, and with the help of an awesome book (Redefining Beautiful by Jenna Lucado), I actually started liking myself!

Over the next year, I experienced more and more freedom until, finally, during my freshman year of school at IHOPU, I completely broke free from it!

I would keep telling you my story, but I'm sure that the details with be told over time, and I might ever write a whole "essay" about it and post of somewhere on this blog someday.

But through all of this I have a huge heart for girls and women and I want to help set them free from the prison of self-hatred. One of my goals in life is it make is so that it's rare to find a girl what does NOT like herself. I want self-hatred to be non existent. I want girls and women to love who they are and how they look and embrace their dignity as beautiful, loved, and delighted in daughters of the King!
 So, that's what this blog is. I've wanted to start a girls/women's ministry blog for a long time, and have started a couple different time, but nothing was sticking.....until now! I finally settled on a name and a theme/focus and I'm super excited! Can't wait to see where this goes. 

Love you all!!!
~Tierra Rose ❤