I always used to say I want to be a perfect human, I didnāt realise for many years how much I was damaging myself with this view.
Social conditioning really gripped me from a young age if you were slim, beautiful, fitted into what was beautiful at that time, big boobs, big lips, Botox, false nails, false lashes, had a good job, nice clothes to wear, designer sunglasses, trips abroad posing with bottles of fizz, looked healthy, then you were successful and by being successful you would be accepted and loved. I didnāt know that this world wants you to feel less then so they can make money from your discomfort.
I say looked healthy as all these things are just what is on the outside. Iāve come to realised generally the people that try the hardest in all these areas are the people that are the most unhappy and in need of deep healing. I was one of them. Lost in a world of comparison.
When you stop trying so hard and work more on accepting yourself thatās when the deep healing starts.
My lost identity wasnāt my fault it was caused through social norms, conditioning and core wounds from growing up, but my healing is my responsibility.
I suffered really bad with acne and psoriasis for many year both were really bad.
The psoriasis started when I was a little girl I was covered head to toes. I havenāt ever talked about this before. It was so bad the other children wouldnāt come near me when I went swimming and it was more visible to see. I had plaque psoriasis which was not only physically painful but scared my emotionally. Nothing the doctor gave me would help and as a little girl I didnāt understand why I had it but no one else I knew had this. Thinking about this now I am so tearful but grateful for this little girl. So was so strong and brave. I never remember once getting upset about it even when it used to bleed and be sore.
Or when the other children would come near me because of it.
It finally cleared from me after seeing a herbalist or witch doctor she was called then. I drank thick black tar medicine I still remember the awful taste now all these years later.
I suffered really bad with acne and psoriasis for many year both were really bad.
The psoriasis started when I was a little girl I was covered head to toes. I havenāt ever talked about this before. It was so bad the other children wouldnāt come near me when I went swimming and it was more viable to see. I had plaque psoriasis which was not only physically painful but scared my emotionally. Nothing the doctor gave me would help and as a little girl I didnāt understand why I had it but no one else I knew had this. Thinking about this now I am so tearful but grateful for this little girl. So was so strong and brave. I never remember once getting upset about it even when it used to bleed and be sore.
Or when the other children would come near me because of it.
It finally cleared from me after seeing a herbalist or witch doctor she was called then. I drank thick black tar medicine I still remember the awful taste now all these years later.
Two spoonfuls everyday day. I cried then. But I worked and although I carried on having small flare ups into my teenage years and the odd flare up in my twenties psoriasis was something of my past.
Then came the acne to teach my my biggest lesson in life. Acne was and always has been my biggest teacher.
I started suffering with acne in my teenage years as most do but mine was much more aggressive and lasted.
I spent years and years on oral antibiotics from the GP that never helped but kept taking them as they used to says it can take months to clear.
My acne really affected my life and my confidence so much so I am still healing from the deep emotional scars.
Unless you have suffered with consistent acne you will never truly appreciate the pain and inner conflict this causes you.
Especially as a female it affected all areas of my life from relationships, to jobs, to self esteem, to my identity and itās a vicious cycle.
Everyone told me it would clear up after my teenage years but it didnāt. I went on to suffer, from the age of 15 all the way through until I was 38. I hid it well but I was under the hospital with four courses of Roaccutane throughout my life each course worst then the last.
The hospitals donāt recommend more than two courses in an adults life. I paid private for the last three as the NHS refused to help after my first course because of how dangerous the drug is. With insight now I would never of touched the drug in the first place but you donāt know what you donāt know. Even writing this now I am feeling my heart start to beat faster with the anxiety and pain it caused me over many, many years.
This drug is linked to many suicides and mental health problems. But then so is suffering with chronic Acne.
To cut an extremely long and difficult story short I only healed my acne when I started to heal myself through self love and cutting out things that affected my life negatively. I started with a homeopath who explained to me many skin conditions stem from self love, self esteem and self worth it all starts with the self. ā¤ļø
I stopped following all the beauty and fitness pages, all the celebrities that make you feel like you are not enough that had me feeling like I wasnāt enough.
I stopped hanging around with girls that were obsessed with getting work done ( to the outside) I relaxed my relationship with myself for the need to be perfect and decided to start spending my money on education and healing practices rather then clothes and treatments.
I spend more time in nature, covered in mud with horses and dogs rather than out for brunches.
I started doing this a few years before covid hit and this last year has only deepened my relationship with myself. I am still learning and growing and taking it step by step. But something amazing happened when I stopped all this stuff of trying to be perfect. I actually recognised myself for the first time in many years. Instead of seeing someone who needed to be slimmer, needs to have less wrinkles, needed to have that new dress or new shoes always thinking that the next new treatment would make me feel happy.
I found myself amongst all the hurt I had caused myself.











