“It's really just taking control back into your hands with what you have control over, which is not how quickly your skin is going to heal, but how you want to show up as you're going through the healing journey itself,” explains Lydia Han, an acne mindset coach who helps women struggling with acne stop hating themselves and their skin. Lydia was inspired to become an acne mindset coach due to her own experiences with severe cystic acne in her 20s. How she felt about her acne and the stories she chose to tell herself caused her to mis...
“It's really just taking control back into your hands with what you have control over, which is not how quickly your skin is going to heal, but how you want to show up as you're going through the healing journey itself,” explains Lydia Han, an acne mindset coach who helps women struggling with acne stop hating themselves and their skin. Lydia was inspired to become an acne mindset coach due to her own experiences with severe cystic acne in her 20s. How she felt about her acne and the stories she chose to tell herself caused her to miss out on a lot of her life, from taking a leave of absence at work to not going out with friends. Lydia shares how to regain your self-confidence and self-love by changing the stories you tell yourself about your acne and choosing to live your life anyway.
If you constantly look in the mirror and hate what you see because of your struggle with acne, you’re not alone. A lot of the pain and suffering that comes with acne is actually much more to do with your mindset than it is about the acne itself. You may not be able to control how long your skin takes to heal, but you can control how you choose to think about it and how you choose to show up in the world. It can be difficult to switch from being super negative to all of a sudden feeling positively about yourself and loving your skin, so the first step is to begin viewing acne as neutral. Choose to tell yourself a different story and to love yourself unconditionally.
Why didn’t they tell us that we can choose to tell ourselves a different story about acne? When you catch yourself having a negative thought about your skin in the mirror, take a minute to analyze that thought. How does it make you feel? Remember, you can always choose to tell yourself a different story that makes you feel better about the skin you’re in.
Quotes:
• “I can wait to live my life once my skin clears up, or I can choose to live my life in a way that I wanted to, even if it was uncomfortable, even if it required more courage and vulnerability from me.” (6:07-6:22 | Lydia)
• “Acne is just the neutral thing, but it's the stories that we tell ourselves on top of it that causes the suffering and the pain.” (11:36-11:45 | Lydia)
• “It's really just taking control back into your hands with what you have control over, which is not how quickly your skin is going to heal, but how you want to show up as you're going through the healing journey itself.” (16:23-16:37 | Lydia)
• “There's a huge difference between letting those thoughts just play in the background or catching ourselves mid-thought and then choosing, ‘do I want to think it or do I not?’.” (18:10-18:22 | Lydia)
• “Your skin is just one little aspect of who you are.” (22:37-22:40 | Lydia)
• “If you're constantly focusing on your imperfections, the breakouts on your face, the things that you don't like about yourself, you're going to see more and more of those things when you look in the mirror.” (24:15-24:26 | Lydia)
Connect with Lydia Han:
Website: https://www.authenticandalive.com/home
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authenticandalive/
FREE Acne Mindset Training: https://www.authenticandalive.com/free-training
Connect With Leslie:
https://www.confidencecoachforgirls.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_coach_chronicles/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoachChronicles/
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