A “Hidden” Cause of Adult Acne
Kris, a client at Pure Light Laser, talks about how she dealt with her adult acne and how Fractional Laser Treatments helped her to reduce scarring.
During my recent Fractional Laser session for removing my acne scarring with Rita here at Pure Light Laser, I was laying on the bed and we were talking about how much better my skin looks and I couldn’t help but open up to her about the real hidden cause of my adult acne.
My story about my struggles and break through with my adult acne was shared earlier on the blog and I am so grateful my skin has cleared up tremendously and it’s as healthy as it is today because dealing with bad and painful skin each day is hard!
Here’s the deal, diet, improper skin care or being “dirty” was not what was causing my acne.
Of course diet plays a huge role in living a healthy life, feeling good and having amazing skin, but I was eating healthy on a strict diet of no dairy, gluten, sugar, grains, etc and I still had breakouts! Not to mention, I had my food allergies tested thinking that this was the answer and yes, cutting out the foods I was allergic to did allow me to feel better, my skin would still put me into tears when I took my makeup off at night…
I believe that all our ups and downs in life happen for a reason. No, challenges don’t happen to us to get down on ourselves even more and just confirm that “nothing right can happen to me”, instead, these challenges happen for us to learn and grow and get back into a space of LOVE within.
You see, that very second that light would flick on in the bathroom during the middle of the night as I stumbled in, my instant reaction was to look at myself in the mirror, dazed and confused, and say things to myself like “you’re disgusting”, “no one even wants to look at you”, “how can you achieve what you want when you look like this?!” and so this inner self-bully grew grander and grander and my self-love was non existent.
At some level this negative self talk served me and it gave me more worry to wallow in.
All of my shadows, the person I was trying to hide was actually showing it’s manifestations on my face. Everything I thought of myself was being confirmed when I looked at my skin. “My skin is horrible so I am worthless!” “See! I can’t even clear my skin, how can I create my dream life?!” and I lived my life in this state of victim mode for a long time.
It wasn’t until I chose to take control of my life because I was so sick of feeling poorly. They say, that we can try and hide our brilliance for only so long until we start to feel the glimmer within to change our story….
We are here to be happy and we are here to shine our light that is blazing within!
I finally accepted that I felt like a prisoner in my own body and was experiencing self hate and I accepted the state my skin was in and I started to feel that there had to be another link to curing my bad skin.
As I started to get comfortable with my inner voice, and felt that pull from my intuition {my loving self} to find out what it was like to be truly HAPPY, I went on a quest to unveil who I was and what my joy and happiness felt like!
Along this path, I studied to become a Life Coach, started my own blogs and businesses and openly, without judgement, only trust, I started to look at the darkest areas of myself that at one time, I wanted to conceal forever.
I realized that things don’t happen to you, but for you. This really intrigued me and I got more comfortable looking at my suppressed emotions, negative thoughts and what my inner self-bully was telling me and I started to link it back to childhood wounds and I could see when my shadows were created and what unhealed guilt and shame I was actually carrying around with me. This is why my skin was erupting, it was literally a release for my hidden emotions to pop up.
A mentor of mine once said, you can only hide your emotions for so long, like pushing a beachball under water, eventually it will come up and smack you in the face! It’s literally true.
The more I loved and accepted myself and all my emotions, the good, the bad and removed all labels and insecurities, I actually stopped obsessing about my skin! One day I was washing my face and I thought, “hmmmm, my skin looks good!! how did I miss this transformation?!” I was finally embracing my voice and self-love, having a good time healing my inner wealth, that my skin started healing really fast!
Today, I coach woman from all over the world who are ready to be happy! We go through the process I went through and still go through on days, to tune into their self-love and remove the blocks that keep them in struggle, one by one and as soon as light is streaming into the darkness, it’s no longer dark and this is where the gifts are and where the healing happens.
Am I upset I had horrible acne for years? No.
If it wasn’t for my troubled skin I would not know what it truly feels like to LOVE myself. I would never had made happiness my #1 goal and fall into my passion of coaching others who are ready to listen to their inner self and flow through their life with joy and happiness.
I am so grateful that I have Rita and the whole Pure Light Laser team to help me further my self-love journey with the amazing Lux 1540 Fractional Laser treatment that has radically helped the redness and smoothness of my indented acne scarring, great products, amazing conversation and the overall health of my skin because I am worth it and so are you!
When you feel like you’re trapped in worry, confusion, doubt, guilt or your inner self-bully is acting up, my biggest tip for you is to drop from your head to your heart and tune-in. Ask what you need and you’ll hear the answers. Trust that your inner light is always guiding you and giving you the love and support so you can live your best life!
Here’s to your happiness, love and radiant skin!
xxoo
Kris Britton
This article was written by Pure Light Laser