✅ Daily Living Skills (ADLs & IADLs) *coming soon
Course overview
Lesson Overview

11.27 – Rebuilding Confidence After Appearance-Based Bullying or Shaming: Recovering from bullying tied to appearance requires relearning trust in your own reflection. Hurtful comments can echo long after they’re spoken, but your value was never defined by others’ cruelty. Begin by focusing on kindness toward your body through grooming, hygiene, and comfortable clothing that feels like protection rather than disguise. Gradually reintroduce color or style choices that once felt unsafe until you reclaim joy in them. Replacing negative memories with consistent care transforms the mirror from an enemy into a teacher of resilience. Talking to supportive peers or counselors helps dissolve shame built by judgment. Each step—washing, styling, smiling—becomes an act of resistance against past pain. Confidence grows through repetition, patience, and refusal to shrink for anyone’s comfort. Your appearance becomes yours again, owned with dignity and courage.

About this course

Practical training to help individuals independently manage personal care, household tasks, and community responsibilities, building confidence and self-sufficiency in daily life.

This course includes:
  • Progress tracking so you can see how far you’ve come
  • Supportive materials you can download and keep for future use
  • Flexibility to work at your own pace, when it fits your schedule

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