Batool Zaidi of BeReal Wear: How To Learn To Finally Love Yourself

It’s very important to have some time alone to reflect on our feelings, emotions, unanswered questions, and everything in general. There is a saying “ It is hard to love yourself if you never spend time with yourself”

As a part of our series about “How To Learn To Finally Love Yourself” I had the pleasure to interview Batool Zaidi, director at BeReal Wear www.berealwear.com.

Batool is director at BeReal (www.berealwear.com). Numerous sales awards throughout her career prove her drive and result oriented mindset. She has high expectations of herself, her teams and thrive on the pursuit of excellence. Her thorough understanding and experience of the UK and international markets allows her to develop medium and long term strategies for the continued growth of the businesses.

Thank you so much for joining us! I’d love to begin by asking you to give us the backstory as to what brought you to this specific career path.

BeReal is all about body positivity and believing in yourself. I wanted to create something that can help women believe in their true self and who we really are when we let go of the stories, labels, and judgments that we have placed upon ourselves. “It is who we naturally are without the masks and pretentiousness.” We offer a range of women workwear, athleisure, partywear, casual wear in various styles and colours. Our clothing is for everyone who wants to be unique and be real. Because we truly believe everyone is exceptional and unique in their own way and our clothing brand represents that. “Be yourself, be real you are enough”.

Are you working on any exciting new projects now?

We are working on many exciting project, follow our IG for regular updates @berealwear.

According to a recent study cited in Cosmopolitan, in the US, only about 28 percent of men and 26 percent of women are “very satisfied with their appearance.” Could you talk about what some of the causes might be, as well as the consequences?

I believe we should enjoy and cherish our achievements, embrace our flaws. We are always looking to be the lookalike of a movie star or a celebrity instead of being comfortable with who we are.

To truly learn to accept and love yourself, you must look inside. Each one of us is unique and special in our own way.

To some, the concept of learning to truly understand and “love yourself,” may seem like a cheesy or trite concept. But it is not. Can you share with our readers a few reasons why learning to love yourself it’s truly so important?

Learning to love yourself is recognizing things about yourself and accepting that they make up who you are with your flaws. It’s not something to be dismissed as easy, or trivial, it takes courage.

The more you are willing to love and accept yourself, the more you will find that you can trust yourself and see things in a positive way.

Why do you think people stay in mediocre relationships? What advice would you give to our readers regarding this?

Trust yourself and make yourself your top most priority. Every relationship should have a meaning and do not accept mediocre relationships in your life. If you are putting 100% in a relationship, you have all the right to except the same from others.

So many don’t really know how to be alone, or are afraid of it. How important is it for us to have, and practice, that capacity to truly be with ourselves and be alone (literally or metaphorically)?

It’s very important to have some time alone to reflect on our feelings, emotions, unanswered questions, and everything in general. There is a saying “ It is hard to love yourself if you never spend time with yourself”

How does achieving a certain level of self-understanding and self-love then affect your ability to connect with and deepen your relationships with others?

The best relationship you can have is with yourself, when you understand and accept yourself the way you are, you stop living by the expectations of others. You start being who you are and you start accepting people the way they are.

In your experience, what should a) individuals and b) society, do to help people better understand themselves and accept themselves?

I believe that it’s essential that we take responsibility to better understand ourselves. We can’t make any improvements to society unless we are willing to take ownership of ourselves first.

The first step for self-love is understanding who you truly are but nobody else can give you that, it has to come from within.

Here is the main question of our discussion. What are 5 strategies that you implement to maintain your connection with and love for yourself, that our readers might learn from? Could you please give a story or example for each?

Self care can be different for everybody, for some it can include bubble bath, candles, getting dressed up or shopping. I think of self care as a service towards yourself, giving yourself the time, attention and love you need.

I personally love to read, meditate and I use BeReal head massager as a part of my evening routine as it helps in stimulating the scalp and the head acupuncture points and can be helpful in eliminating fatigue. This helps me to maintain myself and connect more fully with those around me.

You are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be? Maybe we’ll inspire our readers to start it…

It would be accepting all parts of yourself and others.

Thank you so much for your time and for your inspiring insights!