Welcome back to the FINAL episode of Mirrorless Mission, with your hostess, Serena Saleh. 

Today is the last episode, and it's sort of a bittersweet feeling. I've learned so much along the way and I feel like I've sped up my own character development. In this podcast, I talk about how I've felt and my final thoughts on this mission. I recommend this to everyone as it's a fun personal challenge to witness your own growth. 

Thanks for tuning into Mirrorless Mission and joining me on this journey, I hope you enjoyed the experience and my comments during these times. 

Thank you <3

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Welcome back to Week 7, 

It's the first week and I've been noticed a few things. For one, my skin is a lot more clear, and I didn't expect this project to have had an effect on my skin. Second of all, I'm glad to say don't see the same flaws in me that I've once saw before, if anything, I've become more appreciative of my looks and it's become a pleasant surprise. My character and mindset has significantly changed since the beginning of this project and I've completely accepted the way I am without wanting to change myself and understand how my own comfort should be valued more than others opinions on me. 

Thanks for listening to this weeks podcast, and I'll see you all next week for the last podcast :)

Welcome back to Mirrorless Mission!

This is the last podcast of me during the active Mirrorless Mission journey. Although not much has changed since last week, I've come to a better understanding of why others thoughts shouldn't matter to me and also am finally freeing myself from the strains of worrying about what others think of me and have learned to not compare myself to others. 

Thanks for tuning in, see you all next week! 

Hello again, 

This week was a bit rocky. I didn't realize the times in which looking into the mirror would be pretty beneficial like for health reasons. I still was able to make tiny steps to improving my character after realizing the world is imperfect and that its unrealistic to fit into such perfect ideals, especially when it shouldn't matter to me. 

Thanks for tuning into this weeks podcast :)

Hello again!

This week has become a breakthrough in the project for my own personal development of my self-esteem and self-confidence which is why I continue to reiterate and recommend this project to others because I believe it's very beneficial for one's own self improvement. First of all, throughout this week  I've become more certain on the idea of not caring about what other people think of me and their opinions on me and I've been doing my own self evaluating on why I think that and how I can justify that no one else's opinions of me really matter. Secondly I go into some more specific things I noticed such as getting ready for school faster and feeling like this week was just relief. 

Thanks for tuning in and I'll see you all next week :)

Hello again and welcome to Week 3's podcast where I zoom into this weeks rollercoaster of discoveries and talk about the challenges that arise with this project and how I've been feeling about them.  I will be talking about comfort zones and how they've been restraining me lately and pulling down my thoughts and how actually thinking positive thoughts about your looks links to physical attractiveness. 

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03329969.pdf 

Welcome back to the 2nd week of Mirrorless Mission with yours truly. This week was when I began my navigation and adaption into what would be my new lifestyle for the next 6 weeks. As soon as my mind could no longer fixate on my flaws in the mirror, I directly began criticizing my body from my own point of view, which wasn't easy to stop. I decided to do a bit of research on the mind and why we criticize ourselves and incorporate social media and how that's affected us in the same ways a beauty pageant has. I hope you enjoy this weeks Mirrorless Mission podcast, tune in for next weeks episode where I will be adapting to the "hide-self view" feature on Zoom and what I've learned from that week. 

P.S. The report I mentioned that I would add: 

Wonderlich AL, Ackard DM, Henderson JB. Childhood beauty pageant contestants: associations with adult disordered eating and mental health. Eat Disord. 2005 May-Jun;13(3):291-301. doi: 10.1080/10640260590932896. PMID: 16864534.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16864534/

This first week was challenging yet eye-opening. New feelings, realizations, and challenges were experienced and through learning to stop reflecting on my appearance, I began to self-reflect on the inside and the environment around me. Listen to this weeks podcast where you'll hear all about that and more!

Welcome to my first Podcast, here is just the basics, introduction, and awareness for "Mirrorless Mission."