What’s it like to live with something to hide? Bio-Oil’s Scars Uncovered video of women talking openly and honestly with each other about the personal impact of their scars on their confidence gives a glimpse into the reality. Each woman brings a piece of clothing with them to symbolise an acceptance goal – when they make peace with their bodies, wearing those clothes are the sign that it’s happened for them.
We’ve all got something to hide – bits of our bodies we’re not happy with, but it’s a different thing, somehow, to be brought so low by the physical signs of an accident, an operation or even an attack. A scar is a daily reminder of something that happened to you – it may have injured you or it may have healed you but scars don’t come without their own story.
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When it comes to confidence, it takes so little to unbalance our scales – we’re weighted in the negative I think and yet, as the Bio-Oil video shows, the way to balance into the positive is to talk and share. When others accept you, you accept yourself more readily.
I have a scar over my right eye as a result of being whopped in the face by my sister with a glass ornament (when she was five, I must say!) and I have stretch marks across my breasts from feeding my children. I have two tiny operation scars on my stomach. They won’t go away – I didn’t start out with them, but I will certainly leave with them – and they mark important chapters in my life. But, these are not hard to bear scars. Bio-Oil’s research revealed that 59.9% of people with scarring are hiding them away with make-up or clothing. One in ten feels their scar is more visible than their true selves and the same number feel isolated because of scarring.
So, what’s the way forward? Bio-Oil’s video has been viewed a million times – that’s a million of us who understand how other women feel about their scars. Now we know, we can be part of their journey. It’s bigger picture stuff – being an empathetic ear, being a confidence booster, embracing all of our differences and making a conscious effort to see past a scar without ignoring its story. I think we’re good at that already but please watch the video through to see how a person wears their scar is so hugely affected by how we look at them.
All of us can be part of a scar journey – whether it’s wearing it, understanding it, accepting it or embracing it. The end of the story belongs to all of us.
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