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Name : Vivianne

City : Bogotá

Country : Colombia

Continent : South America

About Me : I'm 23 years old, student of engineering, art enthusiast, ballet dancer and polyglot

Challenge Faced : At 8 years old I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression because of a physiological condition I was born with that gives me hormonal imbalances, that led me to have issues growing up of overweight and low self steem but never really got treatment for it. At 18 I reached a high peak in my mental illnesses after having dropout from art school and got into an extremely toxic relationship full of manipulation and abuse (both mental, psychological and sexual) that led me to cut my wrist and get into an eating disorder that almost cost my life for starvation (anorexia nervosa) and then from throwing up (bulimia). Even after I broke up with that relationship,I was really sick and had issues at university and my personal life that forced me to go into treatment at a hospital for several months and was forced to change my whole life 360°

How I Overcame : The first thing I did was to realise what was going wrong with my life and ended up that relationship that I let go on for a year, then I talked with my family that I thought something was wrong but I didn't decide to take action until I also go rid of unhealthy friendships that were also dragging me down. Right after that happened,I went with my mother to urgences and decided to get treatment (both psychological and physical) and go through whatever I needed to in order to save my life.Although it wasn't easy at first for it led me to another eating disorder (from anorexia to bulimia) and dependency on pills, I got through it all by trusting the doctors that wanted to treat me and with help of my family's support. I started a vegan diet that helped me with overcoming my fear of gaining weight and eating as well as I started a cruelty free lifestyle and mentality.On 2017 I was given the chance to live alone in France and that helped me even more for I realized my capacity of taking care of myself and trust my decisions surrounding my life. I took care of a girl and taught her the importance of loving herself for who she was and I did a massive change in my life in my diet (by rejecting diets and eating intuitively for I was done cutting food from my life), cutting my hair and deciding who I wanted to be without giving any explanations. After that I returned to Colombia and continued with my studies after once before feeling I wasn't worthy of studying such a career, re invented my university life, cleaned my life out of toxic people and mindsets,found new friendships and began a new path of spiritual discovery where I'm still finding out what I want to believe in

What single advice would you like to give women? : You are never ever alone, there's always someone who is willing to help and listen to you. It's okay to ask for help,that doesn't make you weak. There's no man worth enough to make you feel any less important than you are not they can make you do whatever they want even if you don't want to, make yourself be respected by everyone specially yourself. There's professional people capable of helping you and there's no need to let society's unreachable beauty standards make you feel less beautiful than you really are because despite the color and size and whatever,you are beautiful for being you and nobody's better because you are unique and amazing.

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