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A Call For Beauty: A Roadmap for Embracing, Not Rejecting, Your Innate Beauty

A Call For Beauty: A Roadmap for Embracing, Not Rejecting, Your Innate Beauty by David James Di Pardo. Photograph of a woman looking t her reflection in mirror by Taylor Smith
Photograph by Taylor Smith

You are beautiful, inside and out; a being made of the same divine ‘star stuff’ as everything else. Claim your innate beauty and elevate your self worth.

How many of us have heard that “beauty is found within?”

While I believe that to be true, this idea has created a dichotomy in our world that praises physical appearance and beauty but shuns anyone who claims it for themselves. Many people refuse to claim their unique beauty — regardless of their shape, color, or size — out of fear of being labeled.

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