What happens when changing how you look still doesn't change how you feel about yourself?
In this episode of Uncovered, Jason Irving sits down with dermal therapist and beauty industry professional Maria to explore beauty, body image, self-worth and the emotional reasons we can become so focused on our appearance.
Maria shares her own experience of growing up believing she needed to look a certain way to be accepted, from waking up early as a teenager to put on makeup, to later rejecting beauty altogether, before eventually developing a much healthier relationship with how she looks and feels.
Together, Jason and Maria explore an important question:
Are you looking after your appearance because you value yourself, or because you're trying to fix something you don't like about yourself?
In this conversation, they explore:
• Why looking better doesn't automatically make you feel better • How self-worth can become connected to appearance • Why shame and self-dislike can influence beauty choices • The difference between self-care and relying on treatments for confidence • How social media, filters and beauty standards affect the way we see ourselves • Why some people become increasingly focused on changing their appearance • The fear many people experience around ageing • Why emotional wellbeing deserves a place in conversations about beauty • How relationships can reflect the way we feel about ourselves • Why accepting yourself doesn't mean you have to stop enjoying beauty or skincare • How beauty can become an expression of self-worth rather than an attempt to earn it
One of the strongest ideas from this episode is:
True beauty isn't about becoming acceptable to everyone else.
It's about developing enough value for who you are internally that the way you care for yourself externally becomes an expression of that value, not an attempt to create it.
You can enjoy skincare.
You can enjoy makeup.
You can enjoy beauty treatments.
But they don't have to become the thing that determines whether you feel worthy, lovable or beautiful.
At Wellness Breakthrough Academy, we believe your outer life is deeply influenced by your inner world.
Personal growth gives you the opportunity to understand the beliefs, emotions and patterns underneath the way you see yourself, so you can begin consciously creating something different.
Become the person who creates the life you want.
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