Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

170 BRIANNA WIEST
MOVING FORWARD ISN’T ABOUT
GETTING REVENGE
Your glow up might not be something others can see. It
might not come across as a shift on the surface.
In a world of revenge bodies and comeback relationships,
a world that tries to tell you that your ultimate transformation
should be splayed out across your Instagram feed,
we’ve lost what it really means to heal, to improve, to
move on with our lives.
The real glow up isn’t proving the people from your past
wrong. It is finally feeling so content and hopeful about
your future that you stop thinking about them entirely.
When you want to change your life so it looks different,
and only that, you are still orbiting around the opinions of
people who didn’t love you and didn’t have any intention to.
You can always tell the difference, too. People who have
truly transformed are not concerned solely with how
things appear. Their lives are now focused intently on how
things feel, how they really are underneath it all.
A real glow up is authentic. It is lifting off all the cover-up
bullshit and addressing the real problems. It is healing. It is
changing, for good. It is, for the first time, prioritizing your
heart over someone else’s eyes.