Sakaela: I healed my body dysmorphia with fashion

Youtuber Sakaela 

Speaks on her experience with body dysmorphia and how deeply it impacted her everyday life and how she viewed herself. Within her videos, she speaks about her love of fashion and self-care and how anyone can do it when they focus their energy on loving themselves in little habits every day. Even if it has to start with fashion, Sakaela’s journey through body dysmorphia and her transformation through self-care and fashion is truly inspiring. Her willingness to share her personal struggles and experiences can serve as a source of hope and encouragement for others facing similar challenges. It’s a powerful reminder that small daily acts of self-love and self-expression, such as fashion choices, can have a profound impact on one’s self-esteem and overall well-being. Sakaela’s message of embracing and celebrating all aspects of oneself, even those that may have been suppressed or ignored, is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the importance of self-acceptance.

“I’m a street where babe. This, to me, is still street style. It does just not show a masculine focus. I feel like I’m tapping into that feminine side that I have suppressed, avoided, and ignored for about five-six years… I think it’s wonderful how something like your fashion sense, something like the clothes you put on your body, can transform the way you look at yourself.” — Sakala.

She has been working on various ways of improving herself. Through working out and eating conscientiously, she has bought new clothes that transformed how she viewed herself.
“ you can’t get confident if you are doing the same things and stuck in the same habit.”
She said. “ if you want something, you can’t be moving the same way you have been the whole time.” She is buying new clothes and placing them on various silhouettes. 

She felt uncomfortable wearing certain clothes after losing so much weight. She has grace and love for herself. She commits to grace and love towards herself. During the pandemic, she realized the importance of healing due to her self-image issues. “I love skirts, mini skirts I have in my closet right now, 8 or 9… I love my skirts. I love my legs.” She expressed.
Finding an item that stands out to you that you would wear various times is essential for your self-love journey when it comes to the clothes you wear. She expresses that skirt is an object of love that she embraces to where accentuates her legs and create this confidence for her. If there is a body part that you want to pronounce because of your love for it, do it.

“ I posted this picture on Twitter, and it was the first time I noticed my legs. They’re kind of nice; I liked them. It was so worded. Because when you’re so used to seeing yourself in one way only and anything else anybody tries to say about your look this way and you look nice like this. It’s like I don’t know what you’re talking about that sounds foreign it sounds like you’re lying to me. I’m not listening to you; I’m going to do what makes me feel safe.” She said.

Finding your style within fashion becomes a transformative journey that truly changes your life. As she expresses, she’s been healed by taking care of her body and then adorning herself and silhouettes that truly fit an image she wants to portray.

“I feel safe in baggy jeans. I feel safe, and a graphic T. I feel safe and what I’m wearing, and I’m not going to wear something different just because you say so because I don’t care. This is what makes me secure.”

When stepping out of their comfort zone, she realized her style had evolved, and she realized she was being attracted to different clothing and garments that she would never have been before her journey.
She feels like she’s connecting with her younger self, “you’ll see a formula, like that was all I was wearing when I first started.” She said

“This is not something that’s so out of the box…But I’m wearing skirts it’s a big deal for me because I won’t have ever done it. Because I just was not confident in it. Not to say that I’m so so sure now, but I know that despite what my body looks like, Id. I don’t have to have the most snatched waist. I can have a roll and still look good.” She said

She said there are moments when she has thoughts about her weight and wants the fat to go away. But she said it took baby steps to get to where she is now. She doesn’t feel self-conscious that she doesn’t have a big booty though that would be something she would be thinking about all the time Before. She doesn’t care. She feels that she still looks great, “ at the end of the day, as long as you feel confident in what you have on, it doesn’t matter.”

In real life, we are not seeing people in small ways as perfect figures. She reminds us that we must take breaks from social media. Normalizing bodies as they are without the filters and various harmful plastic surgery, it’s best for us to normalize our bodies and open up our insecurities and safe ways.

The Hemline encourages going out and seeing people with standard bodies,  body hair, typical scars, tattoos, and unedited perfect cookie-cutter cropped photos. We want to normalize human uniqueness and human creativity and expression in a normalizing way to encourage and help readers.

“ Love yourself. Where are you at? Because I promise again, I don’t even know how I got here, and I love it. I am in love with me.”

Loving yourself can be healthy. It doesn’t always have to be expected from a place of self-righteousness or an ego. Sometimes it saves lives and uplifts others around us when we genuinely love ourselves.

“ it’s not to say I never felt it be, but I only felt it when dressing a certain way. When I had on my graphic tees and cargo pants, I looked like that girl. It is a different type of energy… and I can pull for that girl whenever I want to, but she doesn’t have to be my safe space. They shouldn’t have to be my protector. She doesn’t have to be who I rely on to feel confident. I feel confident no matter what I have on now. And I’m still working on it.”

She is still working on various other items to improve her confidence, but she’s no longer stuck in one box, and it’s beautiful.
When she was younger, she was very experimental, and she would try various clothing on because she didn’t care what her body looked like.