I Had Waited 29 Years for That Day. I Thought That After It Was Over, I Would Finally Be Able to Look in the Mirror Without Feeling Ashamed… But Just Three Days Later, I Locked Myself in the Bathroom and Cried to My Mom, “I Think I Just Made the Biggest Mistake of My Life.”

truly changed.

“I like that I’m not thinking about what people will notice first when they look at my face anymore.”

For years, I had believed my biggest problem was what I saw in the mirror.

But only after going through that entire journey did I realize that my greatest struggle had actually been with the person standing in front of it.

And for the first time in my life, I was no longer trying to hide her.