Très Jean

A GUIDE TO LOVING YOURSELF.   If you’re like me, self love was a concept that you probably didn’t know about or paid attention to until the past few years. This is mainly because  Most parents (at least mine) do not teach their children self love and it’s importance  Teachers are not trained to teach students what self love is. We as teenagers, especially in the black community, had to go through something at some point in our lives to actually teach ourselves what self love is. For me, it was the constant comparison between me and other family members. I have parents who always felt the need to compare me to others when it came to education, character, life choices, just to mention a few. It took awhile for me to understand that they had the best intentions, but the damage was already done. I went through a period of not feeling like I was good enough. I constantly doubted myself and I didn’t like me. Not loving myself affected me in all aspects of my life: school, relationship with f

 THE BEGINNING   I’m not one to follow through with an idea or venture, especially if it occurs to me on a whim. But blogging I will say, has been one of the very few that has stuck with me for for a couple of months. So why not! Might be the start of something exhilarating. Hi, my name is Jean, and welcome to my blog, Très Jean. 19 years old, black, female (just in case anyone is wondering), an exhausted college student, homebody and a whole lot of other adjectives that I keep discovering about myself day in day out; I’m a teenager after all.  I discovered my love for writing about two years ago. Blogging however, was something that never occurred to me until recently. If we are to be honest, there aren't many black teenage girls who are bloggers. We go through a whole lot of things, and we need an outlet to connect and feel like we're not alone.  I still have a little journal, where I write poems and thoughts and how I'm truly are feeling inside. Parts of my life that I&#