This episode of ‘Blackie, yam-leg and lefty’ shares stories of people’s experiences and responses on body shamming comments and other uncomfortable encounters that threatened their sense of self esteem.
Body shaming involves making negative, unhealthy and unkind comments about someone else’s weight or size. In other words, it involves criticizing an individual’s appearance or making unhealthy comparison to another person’s physique. Body shaming is a deliberate and unkind act that could affect an individual’s self-esteem, self-confidence and self-worth.
This episode of BYL also include stories of a teenager who shares her negative experiences she had among her friends which revolves around trying to gain love from peers even at the cost of accepting a lot of uncomfortable requests. Furthermore, the impact of her experience of being king to people around her later triggered a temperament bottled throughout her teenage years. The impact of these negative experiences was a sudden change of change of personality traits characterized by unkind attitudes to younger teenagers.
Other factor that triggered a sense of low self-esteem shared in this episode include lack of bond among siblings of a family, no fore knowledge about teenage years and lack of opportunity to share personal problems and issues with other people. Some of the consequences of these challenges are social withdrawal and loss of friendship among peers in school and at home.
This episode explores the impact of valuable friends in building a healthy self-esteem. Some of the impacts of having valuable friends include filling a gap in one’s life amidst difficulties and challenges during teenage years.
