I have a song called "Body Image,"
and I wrote this recently--fairly recently--in
Nashville, actually.
And this is just all about, kind of,
embracing who you are, and it's not all about the physical,
but embracing your beauty from the inside out,
because I am a very strong believer
that if you're confident from the inside out,
it will show through, and you'll be
able to more easily love who you are and be confident.
So this is "Body Image."
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[VOCALIZING]
Did you know you're a temple, glittering gold.
Whoever told you you were anything less?
We shouldn't trust the voices in your head,
better yet, what they say you should be.
We were taught to bury deep what we've hidden underneath,
secrets we're not born to keep.
Oh.
Mirrors, cameras, everyone, likes and hates and comes
undone, nothing lost and nothing won.
Oh.
Imagine me loving me, what would that be like?
Reflecting everything I could be if I
tried to see my own strength all the beauty that's inside.
'Cause I live in it, and I could fix it, and this body image,
and this body image.
Did you know there's an answer?
One you can find.
Did you look inside, what doesn't feel right,
And what you have to find out is pretty, pretty girl,
well all the world's waiting here
for you to do what only you could do.
Me loving me, what would that be like?
Reflecting everything I could be if I
tried to see my own strength, all the beauty that's inside.
'Cause I live in it, and I could fix it and this body image.
And this body image.
Yeah.
We were taught to bury deep what we've
hidden underneath, secrets we're not born to keep, oh.
Mirrors, cameras, everyone, likes and hates and comes
undone, nothing lost and nothing won.
Oh.
Imagine me loving me, what would that be like?
Reflecting everything I could be if I
tried to see my own strength, all the beauty that's inside.
'Cause I live in it, and I could fix it and this body image.
And this body image.
And I could fix it.
As we've talked about your journey, you kind of,
you lead us into when you started
competing on those national television shows.
I would imagine that the journey has continued
since doing those shows to where you are now, and especially
within that song.
How have those demons or those struggles continued,
and how have you been able to come out conqueror over it,
or have you?
Yeah, good question.
You know, going on The Voice didn't just magically solve
my issues with being confident.
And it gave me a lot of confidence, because it pushed
me so far out of my comfort zone,
and it showed me what I was capable of doing
and that I was capable of doing something
I thought was impossible.
But yeah, for sure.
It's been a journey for me, and I'm still on that journey,
and I feel like being confident is kind of a lifelong journey,
you know?
Constantly, we're having to remind ourselves every day
that we're good enough because there's so
many things out there in social media
and other outlets that cause us to compare ourselves and not
feel like we're living up to a certain expectation,
and I definitely have felt that.