Beauty Routine Step 1

I’m 40 years old, and honestly, the best beauty routine I’ve discovered is one that focuses on my happiness. I know this sounds cliché or even insensitive. I get it. I have a relationship with depression, so how can I say that in order to look my best, I must focus on being happy?

Well what I’ve learned is that when I come back to myself and truly meet myself with compassion, empathy and acceptance, I start to heal the wounds of neglect and abandonment that kept me in a dark and numbing place for so long. When I sit with myself and feel what has been suppressed, and meet the needs that have gone unmet, I slowly start to feel again, and happiness returns, but not in a one dimensional way. In a layered, wholesome way.