Our Inner Glow-ups

Hell, I’m gonna say it...screw the beauty industry for making us think our glow-up comes from anywhere but from within. And yet sometimes our inner glow-ups get buried under crap we can't see.

There was a time not long ago when I looked around my life and I was miserable. I had done all the things that I thought I was supposed to do in order to be “happy” but they didn’t deliver happiness.
I was hanging on to external glimmers of happiness. But I wanted to be that person that walked into the room and shined so bright.

Hindsight is 20/20 and in looking back at this woman, compassion melts all over me. Because what was clogging her radiance valve was a pile of grief and she had no idea.

Glow comes from a deep devotion to living your truth, moment-to-moment. And that young woman was avoiding some deep pain and grasping for healing in all the wrong places.

My glow has come from honoring my inner child, her needs, her wants, and loving up on her when she throws a fit. My glow has come from getting close to the parts of me that show up as stuckness and holding them close to understand why they are showing up in the first place.

My glow has come from welcoming the hard stuff to my inner banquet table, saying hello and giving it space to be heard.

We worry that if we give these dark parts of ourselves airtime, that we’ll crumble but the cosmic joke and irony of it all is that this is how we set ourselves free!

Xo,
Sara