Going Bald | About My Body Image HD

Is your lack of confidence impacting your decision-making? I started balding at about age 12, I was in middle school and it SUCKED. It impacted my body image and self-confidence, but today I am getting venerable with you. There’s a reason I’m choosing this conversation, because I ask people to be venerable with me and it’s time that I tell you what I struggled with. Losing my hair at a young age is something that has impacted my life. I’m not sure how I started to notice I was losing hair, but someone in my middle school decided he would give me the nick-name “baldy”. It’s one thing when you’re an adult, but now I’m 12 and struggling with balding. Everyday, I would be called baldy and get questions like “Jean, are you going bald?” I really didn’t know what to say and I was having a crisis. I had such a bad body image, I wore a hat daily and tried to hide that I was balding. I chose to over compensate by being super hip and my confidence was so low, that I never knew if I was making a good decision. There were so many missed opportunities because my self-image was so poor. When did this change for me? I started to realize that I can’t just keep hiding in this hat. I decided that I was going to own my balding and developed a new level of confidence. So, I started working out… a lot. I thought if my body looked better, I could hide the fact that I was balding. Little by little, I started to realize that working out made me more confident, disciplined, and focused. One night I was drunk, someone commented about HOW I LOOKED; “He looks old because he’s balding”. I decided that enough was enough and I was going to shave my head to no longer give people an excuse to make comments. I shaved my head, woke up the next morning with gnarly hangover, but INSTANTLY liked the way I looked with my shaved head. My point is that I should have shaved my head years ago… but, I never did anything. I could have removed the shackles of low self-confidence if I released them years ago. We spend so much time worrying about what people think, we don’t just do. Just try your best to solve the problem, make a decision and stop worrying about what people think. If you are struggling with something about your body, try your best to solve the issue first. Take a small step to release your own shackles to live a better life. Yo! I’m not a licensed therapist, I just talk about real shit that’s happened to my clients and me. Do you have a fitness story you want to share? Contact me directly: TotalBodyTrainingTX@gmail.com.