Jen | Endo & Women’s Health Advocate 🌻

These pictures feel incredibly vulnerable to share. These scars are from three surgeries in the last three years, but when I look at them, I don’t just see marks on my body. I see my story. This body carried and gave birth to my beautiful child. It stretched, changed, created life, and then continued fighting through years of chronic illness, excruciating pain, endometriosis, adenomyosis, surgeries, infertility, grief, trauma, and moments when I truly didn’t know how much more I could endure. And now, after my most recent excision surgery and hysterectomy, I’m learning how to embrace this new version of my body. A body that looks different. A body that carries scars. A body that has been through more than I could ever fully put into words. But also a body that is still here. ❤️‍🩹

These scars are not imperfections I need to hide. They are evidence of a war I fought and by the grace of Jesus Christ survived. They remind me of every prayer whispered through tears, every moment I begged God to help me, and every time He did. This is your reminder to my beautiful warriors out there, to be proud of your scars! Be proud of your stretch marks. Be proud of the places your body changed because you lived, carried life, fought illness, survived heartbreak, underwent surgery, or simply made it through something you thought might break you. Your body does not have to be untouched to be beautiful. There is something sacred about a body that shows the evidence of having lived. I will never have the body I had before all of this, and I don’t want to spend my life mourning it. I want to honor the body God brought me into today. These scars hold pain, sacrifice, motherhood, loss, healing, survival, and a testimony of God’s faithfulness. They are part of me. And I am finally learning to look at them and say, this is what living looks like. And what a beautiful gift it is to still be here to tell my story, in hopes of helping other women. I pray my testimony can touch others’ lives and glorify my King Jesus. 💛🎗️🙌🏽🌼

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