DU - Day 7 "This Means War"

Day 7 || THIS MEANS WAR

“Words be my army, smile be my sword.”

This is it, the final showdown. Every trial I have faced, every test I passed and even the ones I failed, have been in preparation for this moment. The battles I have fought have made me stronger and more resilient, and I am finally ready.
Time to face this ugliness inside me and it kill it, once and for all.
Time to die, to be reborn, to be reconciled, to be set free.

Behind The SCENES...

This is a song to myself, or more specifically to the mean voice that used to live in my head. Everyone has an inner critic. I had an inner bitch (or maybe an inner Gollum..?).

I started hating my body when I was 14 years old. At the time, I was 5’3” and hadn’t even broken 100 lbs.

I spent a decade of my life battling eating disorders and obsessive dieting. There is nothing unique about my struggle. It's so commonplace that it's boring. This is the new norm.

I wrote “This Means War” for one of my voice students, who at 11 years old was fighting the same battles that I lived through. I saw myself in her, and decided it was time to speak up about my struggle.

More about the inspiration behind this song here on my blog: this-means-war-why-i-wrote-the-song.html