Beauty without Pharma.
As I sit down to write this I know it will be a challenge to effectively express how I feel about this topic. I can almost already see the eye rolling and the judgment from the self help women’s movement. “I deserve to feel good”.
So I am going to do my best. It needs to be said.
I agree you do deserve to feel good, but I disagree with big Pharma on how we should get there.
As with most things I speak out about I won’t let that stop me from talking about what seems obvious to me.
In a culture that prides itself on supporting strong empowered women it’s odd to me that we support women altering their bodies synthetically because who they are naturally isn’t good enough. It’s getting harder and harder to find women who do not inject, fill or surgically implant foreign substances into their bodies.
It comes as no shock to me that we now have teenagers as young as thirteen turning to Pharma for beauty procedures like botox, fillers and augmentation. Long gone are the days when procedures like this were reserved for the middle aged woman.
What did we expect?
We have normalized augmenting our faces and bodies under the guise of “love yourself ”.
Let me say that again, we have normalized cutting, injecting foreign substances and placing foreign objects into our bodies to “love ourselves” and our babies want to change their faces and bodies forever.
Love yourself, self care, whatever makes you feel good, be happy, it’s your body, you go girl, you deserve to look younger, 50 is the new 30.
I’m all for feeling good and boosting self confidence, but the problem is that’s not what Pharma specializes in. Pharma could care less about how we feel. For corporations it is about creating lifetime customers and bringing returns to investors on Wall Street.
As with over ninety percent of pharmaceuticals the industry of aesthetic medical procedures doesn’t get down to the root of the problem. The root of the problem is I am not confident and happy in my own natural body.
If your desire is to cut, fill, inject and augment your face the problem is not your face. The problem is how you feel about your face. Somehow we’ve completely lost the thread when it comes to self love.
You can cut, fill, implant and tighten every last square inch of your body, but if you don’t have an authentic love for who you are and who gave you life you will never be satisfied. If you can’t feel confident and happy in the skin you’re in what makes you think 40 units of botulinum will change things?
A New Perspective
My mom died in 2009, she was 53 and I was 34. As many young women do I spent a lot of time before that blaming my Mom for giving me what I thought at the time were her less than desirable attributes. In my case it was the dreaded thunder thighs in particular. I’m not sure how I thought it was her fault per se, but I clearly thought I was cursed by the gene pool. Did I expect if she had only worked out more I would have reeped the benefits of it genetically? Instead of focusing on a body that came with virtually no physical genetic defects at all because of her I focused on the attributes I didn’t like because society had taught me long thin legs were the rule.
Needless to say something changed in my thinking not long after my Mom passed away. I began to cherish every attribute she had given me. My nose wasn’t big anymore, my legs were no longer not long enough and the dreaded thunder thighs were now my greatest treasure because I was the only one left standing on them.
A totally different perspective was born. Instead of thinking about how I could change certain physical attributes of mine it became all about how I could preserve them.
When I scroll though social media accounts targeted at me, a middle aged woman who “needs” filler, botox and augmentation by societies standards it only makes me feel a bit sad for women that have yet to see the full picture. Beauty is cultivated by our lifestyle choices and how we choose to express ourselves. It can’t be injected or implanted.
Our daughters are watching and if we can’t do the work to become who we were meant to be which will grow into being comfortable in our own skin how can we expect them to?
My Mom died on a diet. She never achieved her idea of what her body should look like. Weeks before she was diagnosed with lung cancer she rejoined weight watchers for the umpteenth time. That makes me sad when I think about it because her generation never learned that health comes from a dedication to lifestyle over time.
She never learned that her metabolism wasn’t broken, but that she wasn’t fueling it with the right foods for optimum performance. She never knew that it wasn’t her lack of will power, but rather the society we were living in that caused her to fall short of her optimum health.
The Trick
We live in a society where we place the blame on our bodies constantly for not being enough while completely ignoring the variables that are creating the dissatisfaction. Women are being targeted and sold a load of lies while they are proudly declaring that they are empowered because they can cut, fill and implant beauty.
Furthermore women are being used to sell the promise of “feeling good” to friends and sisters without full disclosure. All this under the empowering headline of remove the stigma of plastic surgery? Own your beauty? That just so happens to enrich big Pharma? (Medical implant market is est. 13 billion. Injectable market is est. 11.1 billion) It’s all just a little too convenient don’t you think?
The truth is much like all diseases stem from chronic inflammation that’s cultivated through lifestyle choices it is systemic. All desire to artificially alter your physical body comes from your own thoughts. You can’t cut them out or fill them up it’s also systemic. We have to retrain our thoughts over time for different results. The thoughts are coming from what you are being taught about a standard of beauty. In other words, the thoughts are coming from “inside the house” because the TV is on generating the thinking. Does that make sense? We have to change the channel.
Dedication to the practice of healthy habits is beauty and that includes mental health as well. How we think about ourselves is crucial to our health outcomes. We can’t expect to spend half a lifetime hating our bodies and not have that reflected in our physical being. Just the same we cannot mistreat our bodies with chemicals, additives, lack of nutrients, alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and constant stress and have it represent the beauty we want it to.
There is a symbiotic requirement needed to achieve beauty. Instead of cutting it out, injecting it or attaching it surgically just maybe we can cultivate it naturally.
Become Dedicated to the Process. It’s Truly Beautiful.
Fuel your body with whole foods for nutrition.
Eliminate toxins from personal care items and household products.
Eliminate industrial seed oils from diet.
Supplement with foundational nutrients for optimum performance.
Move your body in a meaningful way for muscle and mobility.
Do what brings you joy and if you don’t know then actively pursue it until you do. There are no time limits only the ones you make up.
Practice gratitude daily.
Beauty without Pharma can be achieved when you give your body what it needs.
It’s More Than a Look
When I think about the true beauties I’ve known through the years in my life I never think about their implants or their injections. I never think about their noses, lips or stomachs. I think about their attitudes. Their ability to inspire me. Their sass. Their vigor. Their style. Their laugh. Much like most of the magic in life it’s hard to quantify their beauty, but I definitely know it and recognize it when I see it.
Is the legacy you want to leave behind one that resembles the cultural standard of beauty today? It’s all starting to look the same. Puffed lips, implanted cheeks and injected skin. Is that the beauty you think will be remembered? Let’s spend more time on cultivating real natural beauty and less on funding a toxic self hating standard.
I hope women succumbing to the injectable implantable “beauty” culture realize sooner than later that one day your mother will be gone and when you look in the mirror you’ll be left with almost no resemblance of her to look back at you.
I can tell you from experience not a day goes by that I don’t look in the mirror and feel grateful that I can see a little bit of my Mom in there.
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Post is SPOT ON, Tammy…..