Embodied Beauty

Beauty and aging well go so much deeper than skincare. In this episode, I get vulnerable (and slightly nerdy) as I go deep into my long love affair with fascia—a transformational journey that changed the trajectory of my life and my body.

Alongside this, I’m sharing the three self-care practices that have been absolutely essential for me right now—the ones that create real radiance, deep vitality, and bring facial lift and youthful appearance in ways no product ever could. These are the practices I come back to again and again because they truly make a difference.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by all the beauty advice out there and just want to know what actually works, this is for you.

DRENCH - Soaking your fascia

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In this episode we dive into the ‘witching hour’—that late-night spiral where self-sabotaging behaviors and negative self-talk creep in.

Maybe you find yourself over-eating to soothe yourself, picking your skin in the bathroom way past your bedtime, or studying and judging your face or body.

It’s a time when we’re most vulnerable and least kind to ourselves because your anxiety is UP and your emotional reserves are DOWN.

I get it—I’ve been there and I’m sharing real, practical ways to shift this pattern and learn how to come in for a soft landing.

Once you understand the WHY behind the witching hour, you can prepare with calming practices to sooth your nervous system, release tension and stress, and clear out the energies of the day.

Embrace your body’s natural rhythms and reclaim your evenings with rituals that nourish your soul.

If you’re ready to break free from the patterns that don’t serve you and step into a more radiant, replenished version of yourself, this episode is for you!

Ready to go deeper? Join the Inner Beauty Circle to learn practices that enhance your beauty naturally via healing and deepen your self-connection in the process. Come together to do the INNER and OUTER beauty work. https://www.embodiedbeautyacademy.com/bundles/the-inner-beauty-circle

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In this episode we dive into the transformative power of shadow work. Identifying and befriending your shadow aspects to help you overcome self-sabotage (overeating, scrolling, self-avoidance etc.), shift your energy, and align with your true self for deep, unshakable confidence and success.

Understanding the Shadow Self:

- The shadow represents the self-rejected parts of us and the sie of you trying to keep you safe. It's driven by fear and often manifests as perfectionism, self-criticism, or self-sabotaging habits.

Why Willpower for Transformation Isn’t Enough:

- You can’t overcome self-sabotage through force or willpower alone.

- The shadow will control you with criticism until it’s acknowledged and understood.

Steps to Work with Your Shadow:

- Identify and Name Your Shadow: Giving her a name creates distance between her and your true self.

- Recognize Her Patterns and Triggers: Notice when she’s in control—critical thoughts, fear of failure, or avoidance behaviors.

- Understand Her Role: Explore how your shadow has tried to protect you in the past and what fears she’s shielding you from.

- Separate Her Energy from Yours: Learn to distinguish your natural vibration from the shadow’s lower, tense energy.

Healing and Integration:

- The shadow won’t disappear, but you can lovingly reclaim your power with awareness, clear and shift your energy.

Transforming Your Relationship with Yourself:

- Question the critical thoughts—are they true, or is it your shadow speaking?

- Shift from self-sabotage to self-love by addressing the deeper fears behind your behaviors.

Want to go deeper?

- Free daily shadow check-ins on Instagram via the broadcast channel.

- Exclusive shadow workshop in the Inner Beauty Circle membership: A guided journey to meet your shadow and integrate her energy. Tools for raising your vibration and breaking free from self-sabotaging patterns.

The Inner Beauty Circle Membership include a supportive community, courses, and workshops blending inner and outer beauty practices for radiance and slow aging.

A fun, light-hearted high vibe episode full of my FAVORITE things that are making me feel so beautiful right now. Dive in, cozy up, and feel the beauty healing magic of just being a woman. Learn restorative facial & body care tips to neutralize life's stresses, raise your vibration, look and feel the most ease-FULL, and celebrate your unique self.

This episode is not sponsored whatsoever but it really should be...

- Following the spark and excitement of the moment and trusting it.

- Amalgam filling removal plan.

- BOKA and SHINE powder for natural tooth remineralization:

- Embracing your natural hair color, silver strands and all! And low chemical coloring options that preserve hair integrity.

- Low heat overnight styling for big glossy smooth soft curls. This is the holy grail of hair styling.

- New exciting clothing finds! Getting a unique bright colored coat that makes me feel like Krista 2.0 vs plain black or typical neutrals.

- Super lovely high-quality Japanese facial tape to smooth and restore my forehead. Sophisticated technology for skin rejuvenation and smoothing wrinkles. You can also use it to help you nose breathe at night for mouth and skin health.

- Join the Inner Beauty Circle Membership to stimulate your skin and body's healing and renewal before the price goes up! The price is $11.11 right now but it's doubling soon.

- Burt's Bees gentle cream cleanser I LOVE IT.

- Apoterra sea berry oil and regenerative vitamin C balm is some SERIOUS nutrition and protection for your skin.

- My new channeled healing modality that I'm bringing into my restorative facial sessions. BOOK YOUR SESSION.

- Barefoot shoes for optimal foot and body health and alignment. Your face starts at your feet! I don't like arch support because it inhibits lymphatic flow.

- Expressing yourself through music, art, projects, singing, and exploring your talents without judgment. Using your feminine creative power to develop and express yourself and enhance your energetic projection of beauty. Shifting from being an ornament to an instrument.

- The treat that I can't get enough of that also helps to boost testosterone (which some of us ladies DO need!)

- Trace minerals to make your water ACTUALLY hydrate you. Because you're a bioelectric being! Water without minerals doesn't hydrate properly.

- Make your bathtub feel ultra luxurious and enhance its medicinal quality by adding dried flowers and/or oats to a nut milk bag and brewing it in your tub.

In this episode we explore:

- How shift your day and way of being to finally SLEEP like a baby. Everything you need to sleep is inside you. If I can heal my sleep, anyone can.

- How to work with your chakras for amplifying vitality, energy clearing "flossing", and deeply radiant beauty.

- Tantric beauty for expanding consciousness, presence, weaving the spiritual and the physical together. It's a way of being, allowing your beauty care to be soul-connecting, nurturing, and less results/goal oriented. This is not about being a monk on a hill. It's about moving every day towards your higher vision for yourself.

- Practices to move away from perfection and fear and tapping into what beauty TRULY is ~ your unique beauty signature. Transmuting chaos into harmony and being fully present with the impact of your beauty. The energy of peace.

- How heart space guarding protects us, but also isolates us and prevents us from true connection.

- How to regulate your own nervous system by dropping the responsibility of saving others and letting them stay in their victim if they choose. You don't need to save anyone...

- How the ancient healing art of Facial Gua Sha smooths, lifts, tones, rejuvenates your skin and restores your facial posture. How to use it medicinally and with full presence.

- How you don't need to fear getting older because you are an irreplaceable beacon of beauty who is changing the world through exemplifying self-care and inspiring people to do the same.

- Ayurvedic hair and scalp oiling for slowing grays, stimulates growth and thickness, hair health and preventing hair shedding.

- How to shift and raise your vibration by working with sacred products, crystals, plants and flowers.

- How to be fully present during vulnerable intimate moments, sadness, and boredom. Embracing curiosity within these moments. You are as innocent and beautiful as a child.

- How to heal from the deep fear that you need to be perfect in order to be safe, and to release the shame around how you've treated your body in the past, any regrets around surgeries/procedures or weight fluctuations that you blame yourself for. Your body doesn't hold any resentments against you.

- Your body is an instrument, not an ornament.

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In this episode we explore:

- How you don't need to choose between caring about your appearance and being spiritual/self-accepting.

- How to age as beautifully as possible through loving, restorative self-care practices that not only make you look better, but deepen your self-connection in the process.

- How embracing aging is so much easier and more fun when you have tools that actually help you to look and feel nurtured, calm, bright and revitalized.

- How modern beauty practices like botox/fillers are becoming a spiritual issue and how to restore yourself and rejuvenate your skin and body naturally.

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I LOVED recording this episode for you. I feel so much shifting in my life and I can't wait for you to embrace this new way of being! We dove into: 

- My own personal realignment and renewal, and ways to get back in sync with your natural rhythms and routines. With a touch of structure for simplicity and ease.

- Breaking up with "hummingbird" energy, getting stabilized, grounded, and slowing WAY down. - Shifting our perspective on beauty practices and seeing gentle, healing self-care as the portal to your soul. 

- Moving away from perfectionism focusing on the ENERGY of beauty. - How your body care is JUST as important as your facial care when it comes to how your face changes overtime (because it's all connected). 

- Learning how to listen to your SOUL and not your BRAIN when it comes to your beauty.  

- Practicing intuitive sun, allowing your tan to deepen, your freckles to pop, your body to AGE, and feeling into the deliciousness of all of it. Because "ANTI AGING" is freaking boring and draining. 

Join my Inner Beauty Circle Membership to learn healing beauty practices like facial massage, facial Gua Sha, and dive into other deeply immersive self-care workshops for only $11.11/month.  

In this episode we explore black cat energy versus the golden retriever energy! How to be a little elusive, a little mysterious, self-knowing, with a "come and get me energy" versus the "please please love me and tell me I'm good enough" golden retriever energy.

- It's not about looking younger or perfect...It's an energy, It's a vibe.

- Learning how to see yourself with a  "glass half full" perspective, being your own biggest champion and moving away from comparison and validation seeking. 

- How to be fully present in intimate moments vs self-conscious of how you look. 

- How to focus on doing all the things that make you feel like a juicy glowing goddess vs striving for an ornamental "perfect" appearance. 

- Releasing needy, desperate energy and enhancing your attractive-ness and polarity with partners.-  How to stop competing with other women (including younger versions of yourself) 

- The way our self-care, self-love and kindness changes as we get older and how it's such a beautiful thing. 

- The journey of embracing silver hair, practicing healing mirror-work and deciding what you truly want your legacy to be in this lifetime. 

-  How I brighten, tone and lift my skin and facial posture and let go of excess fluid and layers of accumulated stress 

- How allowing yourself to age... is the most feminine thing in the world (Emily Davis) 

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If you’ve been told your whole life that you’re beautiful, you’re probably aware of the double-edged sword of it. The “complex relationship” we have with it. The “plight of the beautiful woman” and “the burden.” Not everyone will understand it, be able to talk about it, or hold space for you. You may even feel embarrassed sharing your feelings around it.

But there is some real suffering and stress and pressure that comes with it, so let’s shine some light on it:

Does any of this feel familiar?

Feeling significant fear or stress that you’re going to “lose your looks”, because “of course it can’t last” and since it’s something that’s very valuable about you, find yourself gripping and trying to control it.

You hold yourself to ridiculously high standards of perfection (but you don’t hold anyone else to those same standards).

You oscillate between loving your beauty, and consciously or unconsciously self-sabotaging because it’s too much “pressure” to maintain.

You find yourself swinging between full-on rejection of your beauty and being full-on obsessed with it and doing the most of everything to enhance/maintain it.

Find yourself minimizing yourself to make others comfortable and safe in your presence. You’ve felt rejection from other girls and women and make yourself smaller and safer and more likable to feel acceptance and closeness.

You feel guilty or shameful when you aren’t being “perfect” and doing everything possible to preserve your beauty.

You self-isolate on days you feel unattractive.

You have a complex relationship with men and find beauty “unsafe” at times from years of being over-sexualized (especially during development).

It’s your birthright to experience your beauty as amazing, and pleasurable, and just a natural extension of who you are. It’s not everything that you are, but you get to allow yourself to love it, without the sticky, stressful, looming darkness of it.

I’m here to help you through these challenging feelings and move into your ecstatic true nature of fully enjoying your beauty RIGHT NOW in the present moment and living your VENUS ERA.

There’s much to be understood, unraveled, and healed in YOU personally in order to start living your fullest expression of your beauty.

But guess what - it gets to be fun! It gets to feel like a breath of fresh air into your lungs renewing your lease on life and experience in this gorgeous present moment.

DM ME IF YOU NEED SUPPORT!

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In this episode I share all about your "Venus ERA" - the time when you decide to intentionally infuse beauty into every inch of your life for the pleasure and joy of it, going way beyond your physical appearance.

Where beauty becomes a lifestyle, and a WAY OF BEING. When it becomes your lens and your viewport. When it becomes your energetic signature, imprint, and legacy. When it becomes second nature to ask yourself “how can I bring even more beauty into this moment?”

Your Venus era is when you fully understand that this is in fact “your calling” - that your contribution to bringing more beauty into this world through your personal relationship to it, is impactful and generous and HEALING to others. It’s not vapid or indulgent or selfish. It’s inspirational, and you’re creating a ripple effect that will continue on long after you are gone.

I’m calling this an activation because I want to activate something in you. I want to inspire you and have you realize that ultimately - your VENUS ERA is something you decide is happening, right now, and then you take steps to E M B O D Y IT.

I see the embodied beauty pillars as the “action steps” - the way to bring this from a “concept” into reality.

Because we have a complicated relationship to beauty, and a lot of the feelings and choices that we make around it are really from our wounded selves, our fears, and not our empowered, sovereign selves.

I want you to see these pillars as a way to allow yourself to indulge and amplify that desire you have to be the most gorgeous version of yourself in this lifetime - and also to understand why there is some tarnish on that feeling. Some stress, some ickiness. And how to bring yourself back into the purity and sweetness of your craving for it.