Quotes by Yancy Lael

You are not your skin. You are not your body. You are a soul. You are a cell in the body of the Divine. You are a magnificent product of Divine Creation. You are a moment of inspiration made manifest in a human body.

In this culture, cultivating unconditional self-acceptance truly is radical.

For most of us, the most common and unfortunate side effect of skin problems is isolation. We dont want to be seen the way we look. You can hide a lot of physical flaws, but not acne. Its right there, on the first thing people notice about us - our face. And its hard for some of us to imagine that people can see the face - the PERSON - behind the acne.

If you feel like a failure in any area of your life, then you are in need of some self-forgiveness.

Dont forget that healing takes time. Dont expect to try meditation and a new skincare line and end up with perfect skin in a week. Give yourself the gift of time and patience. The body is a complicated, miraculous system and each body processes change in its own time.

Wash, wash, wash. Tone, tone, tone. Strip the oil, then add an oil-free moisturizer to replace the oil. This is how weve been taught to care for our skin. It seems a little crazy when you see it in print, right? Take all that oil out and add chemicals to replace it. Nuts!

I had to learn the hard way that treating the skin like an A-bomb drop zone is completely counterproductive. And through my healing journey, Ive discovered something miraculous: that moisturizers can heal in unimaginable ways.

Dont rely on labels to give you the information you need. Trust only the ingredient list and your gut.

Our culture is obsessed with perfection, especially when it comes to the way women look. The parameters of acceptability as far as physical appearance go are so limiting that only a handful of women actually fall into this category. And the rest of us are left to either squeeze ourselves into molds that dont fit, hating ourselves all the while, or we just give up entirely.