Allowing Myself to Be Who I Am (first picture of my face)

I had an insightful therapy session the other day. My therapist told me a story of when she was once in therapy as a young woman and a new mother and her therapist asked her to follow her through this forest and ended up at this incredibly old, ginormous, and ugly tree. And my therapist sat under the tree with her therapist in silence. She says that she asked the tree, in her mind, how she got to be so old and ugly. And to her surprise (and you're gonna call this crazy) but the tree answered her back inside her mind and said, "because I allowed myself to be."

What my therapist was trying to say was allow yourself to be whatever you are and you'll be much happier. I'm isolating myself and hiding away and therefore not allowing myself to just be whoever I am. Whatever and whoever I am, I need to allow myself to be it and in my case that means scars and all. So, here I am, going to post a pic of my full face (with my new haircut) and finally, finally! allow myself to be who I am. So here goes readers and followers, here I am, scars and all. But I hope you keep in mind that they are still working on reconstructing my neck and face so I will keep looking different with every surgery. But nonetheless, HERE I AM! Please be kind. This is a big step for me.