#61: The Body Awareness Project: Toxic Skincare Products and Body Intuition

In this special episode of Meathead Hippie, Em highlights two (out of many) of her most favorite clips from The Body Awareness Project Part One: Skin which is all about addressing the root causes of skin issues by looking deeper into our bodies. Lauren Geertsen brings awareness to the body’s “sacred symptoms” and stresses the importance of becoming attuned to the messages that our bodies are trying to send us. Lauren provides several steps on how to listen to your own body’s intuition in order to understand its place in your healing journey. In addition to Lauren’s piece, Diane Sanfilippo talks about the importance of knowing what we are putting on our skin with beauty and skin care products. Diane provides a great amount of useful tips on how to get rid of the harmful ingredients that are problematic to our systems by replacing them with ones that will work best for YOU. “If we know that there is something that we can change with our personal care, it is just another step that can prevent ourselves from using harmful products.” www.thebodyawarenessproject.com 1:00 Update On All The Things! 5:00 Lauren Geertsen: Sacred Symptoms 5:10 “Acne is a sacred message to our body” We cannot be fixed with pills The body is doing the best it can with the environment and materials its given 6:10 Learning How to Not Self-Loathe Health challenges are an initiation to our own healing journey It’s not just about acne - acne is only leading us in finding ourselves 8:00 Understanding of the Healing Journey Based on Joseph Campbell’s research Steps on how to become intuitive with your body 16:00 Diane Sanfilippo: Beauty and Skin Care Products 16:30 What We are Putting on Our Skin Your body may have immune responses to environmental toxins How to get rid of the stuff that we know is problematic to our systems 20:55 Examples of Typical Beauty Products that are Harmful Things can be safe on your skin that are not safe to eat How the that we eat is digested and its relation to the skin 28:05 Feeling Better After Switching Products “If we know that there is something that we can change with our personal care, it is just another step that can prevent ourselves from using harmful products.” Even natural ingredients can still give people negative reactions 32:20 Products to Not Live Without Charcoal bar and charcoal mask Oil cleansing/cleansing balm - Good for hydration! Thank you listeners!! Please leave a review if you enjoyed and checkout my links below to get plugged in more to what I'm doing. PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: www.facebook.com/groups/1292792567518714/ Find more on Em here: @emilyschromm www.emilyschromm.com youtube.com/emilyschromm