Category Archives: How to Deal with Emotions

Understanding Why Emotions Affect The Skin

How the brain affects the skin

If you enjoyed the most recent article on The Love Vitamin called “11 Eye-Opening Things Your Skin Could Be Trying to Tell You“, then you might be wondering exactly how and why stressful emotions affect the skin. What’s the science behind it? Well, Ashby, from ashbysalternative.com, is going to give you her take on why…

11 Eye-Opening Things Your Skin Could Be Trying to Tell You

Breaking up can sometimes be a good thing...

I got this comment the other day on a blog post: I just wanted to let you know that after breaking up with my boyfriend, my acne has cleared tremendously!!!!!!! Coincidence? I think not! I’m not sure if you remember, but I was the girl who, sometime late last year, was posting on here about…

Do You Forgive Yourself For Having Acne?

Forgive yourself for having acne

Hey dudes and dudettes, I was thinking about something. It’s got to do with both of my last articles – the one about “How to Start Loving Yourself” , and my very last article, which was the guest post by Stefan – a young man who took Accutane when he was 15 and is still living…

Learning to Love the Person Behind the Acne

Love yourself

Could you ever truly love the person behind the acne? A while ago, I received a really amazing email from a lady named Sera about this very subject. If you’re signed up to my newsletter, you may have already received an email that I have sent out about how to stop staring in the mirror…

Do You Want to Be Happy? Stop Trying to Be Happy

Accept yourself and everything you are

In the last post I wrote, I mentioned the concept of acceptance for treating unhappiness and anxieties. I said that acceptance is a tried and true method of recovery – by accepting yourself and all of your anxieties as they are, it paradoxically makes them disappear. And this is coming from people with serious anxiety…

5 Things I’ve Learned In the Past Week For Treating Acne, Anxiety & Low Energy

acne, anxiety, and low energy

Hi everyone – I just wanted to give a little update on what’s been going on with me! It’s been two weeks since I got my first reiki treatment, and I’ve had another one since. I’m still planning to get two more sessions. As you may know, I decided to get reiki to see if this…

Reiki for Acne + I Reveal All the Details of My First Reiki Experience (it was awesome!)

Reiki

So, true to my words from this video, I’ve been proactive and booked myself a reiki session to see if I can get to the bottom of these emotional and energetic blocks that keep following me around. I had my first session this morning, and it was AWESOME! Now I’m clamouring around trying to remember…

Is it Better to Be Open About Acne, Instead of Hiding It From Those Closest to You?

hiding the acne

Last Friday, I let you know about how I had told my friends about my ongoing struggle with acne anxiety, and how I ended up bawling my eyes out in front of them – releasing all sorts of emotions! It got me to wondering – how open are you with those close to you about…

My Repressed Emotions Over Acne Suddenly Came to the Surface Last Week (in front of my friends!)

Emotions rising to the surface

In my last video, I told you all about my wonderful time on the off-grid island community of Lasqueti. It was a very inspirational time, and it also was a very strong time for self awareness and growth. One particular awareness experience did happen to relate to my skin and my acne and the related…

You Can Be 100% Overwhelmingly Beautiful – Even With Acne

Steve, Rikke, and Me, circa 2006

Let me tell you about my friend Rikke. Well, to be honest…. I don’t know if you could call her a true “friend” anymore since I haven’t actually talked to Rikke in about six or seven years (although I would like to consider everyone out there my friend!). She’s just one of those random people…