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Beauty, love, sensuality are also spiritual paths. And while we're going to talk about some things you can do for a glow up, it really is all part of your own self love. It's part of seeing yourself as a sacred site that will only be treated as such. And when you adorn yourself and really embody the goddess that you are, people start showing up to you with that energy. It actually shifts energy. How we interact with life, how to have the biggest glow up ever. Welcome back to the Highest Health podcast. My name is Sahara Rose, and on this podcast I love to take spirituality and make it modern, fun, grounded and relatable so it can actually serve your needs, especially for those of us on the path of the sacred feminine. So over the past several years, I have had the greatest glow up of my life. I have so many friends ask me, what did you do? How did you shift? How did you evolve? And it's funny because I'm 34 years old and I look by far better than I ever have. And I can honestly say every single day when I look in the mirror, I. I keep looking better and better and better and it makes no sense. I have zero Botox, zero filler. I don't go to expensive facials or lasers or any of those things. But really, the glow up was energetic and there are some physical things as well too. So I'm going to break it down as much as I can in this conversation. Kind of being like the sister you never had. That really teaches you from the inside out how to glow up. Because let's be real, beauty is part of the feminine spiritual path. And before we get into this episode, be sure to hit subscribe. That allows you to stay in the loop for future conversations. This podcast is also on YouTube, so you could be watching us in person, Spotify video, and the Apple Store. So be sure to subscribe to stay up to date with future conversations. And let's get into this one. So let's first start with what is the sacred feminine? So you may notice I use the word sacred feminine more than divine feminine, and you could kind of mutually exchange them. But to me, when I think of the word divine, it's very ethereal, it's otherworldly, it's like white light divinity. Whereas sacred, like, I want you to just invite that texture into your frame right now. What, what does sacred feel like for you? So for me, something that is sacred, it is ancient, it is otherworldly, it is intentional. It's in the lower chakras, so that sacral svadistana sensual honey, like snake, like priestess, like energy. And so for me, the sacred path is more around the path of embodiment. And embodiment is really the missing link I have found in, in most women's spiritual journeys. Because we are reading spiritual books and hearing quotes that are written by men, primarily for men. And yes, we can learn from them. However, the feminine path is very different. So if we look at the more masculine path of spirituality, it's all about leaving the body, merging with nothingness, going into the mountains, having no desires, no attachments, no preferences. And we can learn a lot from that. And I've really dove in into my own inner masculine to find that balance. However, to me, my deepest desire. And I'm going ask you guys this question too so you could tune into which spiritual path is more in alignment with you. But when you think of when you were the happiest in your life, was it when you were left alone, like deep in nature, on a boat or on a mountaintop, with no thoughts, no one messaging you, no worries, just in complete like oneness with everything around you and was just no thought in your mind. It was a feeling of nothingness. Was that your highest ever feeling? Or for you was your highest ever feeling when you were having an orgasm? When you felt so filled up with love? When you looked into someone's eyes and you saw galaxies in them? When you were surrounded by puppies or kitties and your children and all the things that you loved? When you are filled up with more, when there is an abundance of food on the table, when there is an abundance of jewelry on your body, you are excited by more. Fill me up. I want to experience it all. I want to feel so alive. Which of those feels more like your deepest desire? I think we all want both to some level. But what feels more like, ah, this is like the highlight of my life. So if it was about being in nothingness, that is the more masculine Shiva path. And if it is about being in everythingness, that is the more shakti feminine path. So I want to share this because I feel it's important for us to know that beauty, love, sensuality are also spiritual paths. And while going to talk about some, you know, things you can do for a glow up, it really is all part of your own self love. It's part of seeing yourself as a sacred site that will only be treated as such. And when you adorn yourself and really embody the goddess that you are, people start showing up to you with that energy and all of a sudden things that you may have compromised on before. So maybe before you were okay with this guy maybe texting you once every two days, and that was enough to kind of keep you in the hook. And then you're just like, do you see the henna on my hands? Do you see this jewelry? Do you see this outfit? Do you see how much inner work I've done, how much healing I've done on my nervous system, how much ancestral healing work I have done? I am not going to let this be fucked up over some guy who doesn't have his shit together. Thank you. Bye. Bye. And so it actually shifts how we interact with life. Are you calling in your spiritual Soul fam, those besties who get you on a ride or die level, People who you can gather with under the full moon and talk about your intuition and what you're manifesting and help rise each other up rather than tear each other down? If you are done with the sister wound, with gossiping, with all of the ways that women have been taught to see each other as competition, but rather you're ready to gather in sacred circle to share what you're calling in, to dance, to sing, to breathe, to dive deep into the ancient and sacred ways, then Rose Gold Goddesses is for you. Every single month, we gather in a sacred zoom circle where we hold space, we tune into the astrology of the month, and we do practices like rituals, stuff, ceremonies, dance, movement, and so much more. So if you're ready to connect your intuition, your embodiment, and do so with community, with Soul Fam, who get you on a deeper level, then I invite you to join Rose Gold Goddesses. You can find all the information below to join us for our next circle. And I can't wait to meet you inside. So I'm sure you've noticed this. Like, for example, I'm. I'm here in this podcast studio in la, and the last time I came here, I just wore something really chill. I just had my hair back in a low pony, put on just, you know, just some bare minimum makeup and came in and had a shoot and I felt beautiful and I felt great. And today I decided to put my hair in this sleeked ponytail and put on some extra jewelry. And yesterday when I was getting my eyebrows threaded, I was like, do you guys do mendy? And so I did mendy. And I just spent a little bit more time. Like, I finally. You know when you watch those makeup videos and you never actually do them, I was like, okay, I'm gonna do something new because let's Be real. I think we all do our same makeup that we have started doing in high school. Like, I remember when I went to prom, they taught me at the, like, Laura Mercier counter how to do my makeup. And I have not let that go in, like, 20 years. And so today, I was like, okay, I'm gonna go on a limb. I'm gonna do something new. Who knew Brown eyeshadow inside? I mean, I don't know if I would do it again. What do you guys. Should I do this again? It feels like a lot to me, but I was like, whoa, I look different. And so I came in, and the producer's like, oh, my God. Like, you look amazing. And I was like, thanks, girl. Like, my interaction with the space, my interaction with her when she came in, my interaction sitting down, how I will be when I go to the grocery store after. All of this has shifted because of the way that I am presenting myself right now. And so this is why a glow up really is a part of the sacred feminine spiritual path, because it. It shifts how you show up in the world. It shifts what you think and feel about yourself. It shifts what we accept in our realities. Like, that is why the goddesses in every single lineage. If you look at the Hindu goddesses, we have Lakshmi, and she's dripping in gold with pink flowers. We've got Saraswati, and she has her white dress on, and she's playing her Vira. We've got all of them in their beautiful depictions. I love watching Bollywood movies. I am obsessed. Why the aesthetic? If you want to. Okay, let's start how to have a glow up. I want you to start mapping out what is exciting for you. What styles do you like? What Personas would you like to try on? Because you are creating a new Persona for yourself. Now I'm gonna say something different that most people will say around personal style. Every single person will say, pick a personal style and stick to it, honey. Y' all have seen me on this podcast. How many different styles have I rocked? Like, every single episode? I am a new avatar, and I love that, because to me, the goddess is everything. We just talked about three goddesses right now. We also have Isis and Hathor and Sekhmet and the ancient Egyptian comedic. We have Athena and Aphrodite and so many depictions, and they all live inside of us. We're all fierce. Like, today, I'm channeling a little bit of a fiercer energy. I did that pony. I was like, I need leopard print. Which, by the way, is having a moment right Now. And by the way, I'm working on. Okay, I'm gonna say this here because you guys are like the real ones. I'm working on a collab with Royal Cos and it's leopard print and a rose baby. So I was feeling the leopard print today and so I'm showing up in a more fierce feminine energy. And I actually shifted the solo cast I was going to do. I was going to do an about how to be in your so feminine energy. That was my idea last week based on how I was dressed last week. And then I wore this. I did my hair like this. The hair informed the outfit, which it informed what I'm talking about today. I didn't even plan to do this topic until I sat down in this chair and I'm like, oh, my goddess. The way that we show up in the world, the way that we dress, the way that we adorn, shifts our entire lives because you end up having a different conversation that leads to a different thing, that leads to different friendships, career, relationships. It changes everything and we so undermine it. And let's be real, how many of us since COVID have kind of stuck with the sweatpants look? And don't get me wrong, I. I love being comfortable and I really value wearing high quality clothing. And I want to address this because having a glow up doesn't mean that we're buying fast fashion. It doesn't mean, like, please don't shop at these places that are, they have toxic materials in a lot of their clothes. There's a massive lawsuit of sheen. And these, the material in their clothing can be cancer causing. So I know it's super tempting to go to these fast fashion websites and you can find everything super cheap. And you're just like, the feminine part of us is just like, I need more, like more, more, more. And then we like get under the spell and we can't stop. But when you dress cheap, you look cheap. Like this outfit I got, I got it in India at this like gorgeous store and I feel just amazing wearing it because it's really nice fabric and it's like a nice piece of clothing that completely shifts how I show up. And trust me, I have definitely bought fast fashion in the past. Especially when you're doing shoots and things that you're like, I'm only going to wear this once. But it's something that this year, especially living in Bali where I didn't have access to Amazon and online shopping or any of these things, like, I came in with a suitcase and that's what I had, and there were stores like Royal codes that are. That are all organic and, you know, natural dyes, et cetera. It entirely shifted how I relate to clothing. You know, before, I wouldn't really feel a connection to it. I wouldn't feel it. And then once I started to wear organic materials, my auric field got to expand because I'm not wearing this synthetic polyester that literally, it's actually vibrant, vibrationally akin to a dead body. So when you are wearing these synthetic polyesters from fast fashion, you are akin to wearing the vibration of a dead body on yours so energetically. Think of what that is doing. Like, if we had some person's limbs on us, like, that is the lowest vibe thing we could possibly do. And so we don't realize this, but so much of having a glow up is energetic. And so it starts with what are the quality of the clothing that we are wearing? And I know you might think, well, it's really expensive to buy those things. Having a globe is not about changing your look constantly into completely new outfits. The same outfit you can wear in a million different ways. That top, you can wear it with a skirt, you can put a shawl over it and do a little sari vibe. You can wear a blazer with it. There are so many different ways that you can can style it. So going back to personal style, I feel for some of us, we are in a really big transition in our lives that we literally want to create a new avatar for ourselves. So, for example, after my divorce, I felt so different. I went through a complete death and rebirth cycle. And I wanted to physically show that I am not the same person. And so I started to dress in ways that I wouldn't have thought of or even given myself permission for before. So I wanted to dress a little bit more sexy. Because before, when I was married, I had this idea that, like, I'm a wife, I need to just wear, like, wifely clothing. And after my divorce, I was like, I want to wear like a little bandeau top with a matching lime green skirt. Like, I want to wear, you know, a cute carnival outfit and dance on the streets of Trinidad. I want to wear those things. They were things I always would look at other people wear and be like, oh, it's so cute. But I thought, that's not for me. But I really wanted. I started to wear those. So what are the things that maybe you're not giving yourself permission to wear? Maybe it's bright colors. I know a lot of us, we get really stuck in ruts where we are only wearing neutrals and beiges. And it can feel really good sometimes, especially when you've been wearing a lot of different patterns and colors to have something really monochrome and neutral and it can feel really elevated. But sometimes when we're going through a really big shift, we want to change that. So maybe we do bring in more bright colors because, I mean, there's so much in color theory, but the colors that we wear shift how we feel and shift also how people interact with us. So when you see someone wearing a yellow dress, it's giving off a very different energy than when you're seeing someone wearing all black. Plus the textures. If you're seeing someone wear leather things that are really sleek, sharp, you are going to assume that person is more sleek, sharp, businessy. They have slicked back hair. You are already going to have like a bit of a New York Capricorn inference on them. And then if you see someone who has, you know, long wavy hair and a boho skirt and, you know, she just wrapped up her own top with a scarf, you're going to interact with them differently. You're going to think, okay, this person's really making a lot of homemade things. They're really connected to Earth. Maybe they like, you know, make their own potions at home. You are interacting with a different type of person. So what character do we want to be? It's literally like when you're playing a video game, choose your avatar and that's who you get to be. So if you've always been stuck in a style, I invite you to bring in a new and also, like I mentioned, have fun with different ones. I do feel the sacred feminine is playful as much as she is fierce, as much as she is wise, as much as she is sensual. We are allowed to dress in different ways because we are different people. And the same article of clothing, you can dress it in completely different styles depending on what else is with it. So I invite you, like the days that you want to feel more fierce and maybe you don't feel fierce, but you want to. Can you dress up in a little bit more of that way? By the way, the slicked back look that you're seeing a lot of people wear, you can recreate that with oil. You don't actually need to put synthetic hair gels in your hair, just putting oil on your hair. So you're oiling your hair, which is an ancient beauty ritual that they've done all around the world, especially in places like India, in schools in India. It's actually mandatory for. For girls to come into school with their hair oiled so you can, like, oil back your hair. Also do a wet look, so you could put oil all over your hair and either brush it for a straight look or even kind of scrunch it for a wavy, wet, very, like, Megan Fox look. I went to this insane Indian wed and there was this girl there. She's this beautiful model, and she had this, like, very, like, wet Megan Fox look. And I was like, what product do you use? And it was just this oil. And I was amazed. And after that, I started doing it. I'm just like, okay, so I'm moisturizing my hair. It's. It's protecting my hair, and it looks insane. So I feel like right now is the moment for wearing our hair up. I'm just seeing it everywhere, and it's really freeing because before, like, especially when I would do this podcast, I would get my hair done and every single week for the podcast. And now I've rarely get my hair done because I actually prefer wearing my hair up or, you know, so right today I did this. This high up pony. I just took a comb to really slick it back. I also love doing a middle part. I know they say you can tell someone's millennial or Gen Z by their part. I'm a millennial, obviously, and I have always loved the side part. But I decided to do the middle part, especially spending time in India. And I'm very Indian aesthetic. The woman would always do the middle part. And I don't know, it was like, in India, actually, even at their own weddings, they never wear their hair down. In fact, in Indian culture, only your husband, someone who's seeing you in that, like, wild woman's sexual light, ever sees you with your hair down. The rest of the world, you always have your hair back. It's like a sign of even respect for yourself. And so I would see these women, and I especially love when they do the middle part, and then they wear that piece of jewelry, it's called a tikka, that they wear over their part onto their forehead. And it is so beautiful and ornate. So, for example, in my own personal style, like I mentioned, I love Bollywood movies. I love the big jewelry, especially those big nose rings that connect to your ears. And I'm Persian, so we actually had that, like, in my home growing up, we had an image that was like that Afghani girl that you saw on the COVID of National Geographic. So every single time I'd go down the stairs, I was. Was looking at her, and she had this very big nose ring that was connected. So it's also ancestral. I have South Asian blood as well, and so for me, it feels very regal. It's interesting because when I look back at videos of me before really learning about beauty magic, I never wore jewelry. It's just something I never really thought of. And I would just see videos of me. No earrings, no bracelet, like, nothing. I was just raw dogging it. And now I'm like, if there is a hole, there is a way, you know, for me to put something in it. I love the art of adornment, so let's bring it into that. So you can take the most basic outfit, a black tank top with black leggings, and through the adornment, you can make it into something so beautiful. So when we are wearing metals, actually what it's doing in our consciousness is we're seeing something bright and shiny. So our mind sees it as an oasis. So when we were like hunter gathers and we were, you know, in the deserts for long periods of time, we would see an oasis of water, and it was attractive to us. And so we would see that glimmering. So our brains are actually wired to see glimmery and shiny and to be like, I want that. That's good. I want to go that direction. I love it. So this is why women love bling. It's why we love gold, we love jewelry, we love glitter, we love sequins, we love sparkles, we love metals. We love anything that is shiny. It's actually just encoded in us. And it's not just women. Even men are attracted to it as well. I remember I was in Dubai at the mall, and there was. I think it was like the Tiffany store, I want to say. And it was like all of this beautiful, like, shattered glass all around it. And I could not stop staring at it. I just wanted to keep walking by the store, not because I wanted to shop there, but because of what it was doing to my consciousness. It was just the most shimmery, luminescent thing I've ever seen. Pain. And so you will notice energetically a difference when you start wearing jewelry, you start to carry yourself in a more sacred way. You become more intentional. Like, you know, when you're kind of at home in sweatpants and, you know, messy bun, you're kind of just, like, sloppily eating your food. You're not even sitting down to eat. You're just, like, standing up, eating it out of the fridge. You're being sloppy with yourself. I invite you to just, if you have a habit of doing that at night, just put on some jewelry, just put on some rings, put on some earrings and you are not going to even be able to have that habit anymore because all of a sudden you're going to be like, I am the goddess incarnated. And you're going to want to sit down and you're going to want to play some soothing jazz music and you're going to want to light a candle just because you have put some jewelry on yourself. And jewelry does not have to be expensive. My favorite jewelry are from the streets of India and they cost literally next to nothing. And they're made by local artisans. That's my personal style. And it can be whatever you like. So with jewelry, you know, it tends to be some of us are more gold, some of us are more silver. So gold is really that regal energy. If you're really attracted to Princess Jasmine, Ancient Egypt, Persia, even Rome, Venusian, it's very gold energy. And some of it is more bronze as well. And then silver is very like, well, we have different types. We have the very futuristic silver, like very like matrix, like Femme Dom, you know, like she's, she knows her worth and she's going to stand for it. We also have that beautiful, like in India, there's a lot of, of silver as well that the artisans making. It's more of like a duller and more earthy silver and so you can actually place them against your skin and see if you have more warm or cool undertones and you'll be able to find which is right for you. Some people switch. For me, I'm definitely more of like a gold girl. So we have these different avatars we can do. Now let's talk about health and how it relates what we're eating, how we're taking care of ourselves. So this is imperative on the glow up journey. You know, when we were young girls, I'm sure we all like looked up to people like Britney Spears and you know, even the Olsen twins and the beauty stand was all about being as thin as possible. Like I remember reading in a magazine that Britney Spears did a thousand crunches a day. And I was like, okay, I need to do a thousand crunches a day. I don't think I did it once. But there was so much pressure on being thin. And I feel like that often still holds us back and how we style and how we dress ourselves. Like, oh, I don't have the belly to wear a crop top. My belly is too, too round. Or I don't have the thighs to wear that, you know, kind of shorts. You know, I need a thigh gap and whatever the things are. And so much of beauty magic is actually really about confidence. And you'll see people like, that's what I loved about Trinidad Carnival. You see women of all shapes and sizes, super curvy, super juicy, and they are wearing sequin thongs, shaking their ass on the streets like, yeah, I'm the shit. And it was so healing for me to be a part of because there was no judgment of body, there was no shame of the body. Women were just free to be. So a really big part of my own healing journey with this. I have always, you know, growing up was very self conscious about my stomach. That was like my, you know, we all have the things that, like, the first thing we look at in the mirror and not like about ourselves. And for me was always my stomach. And so growing up, I would like base, like, how good of a day I had based on how bloated I was. On top of that, I definitely had digestive issues and was. Was chronically bloated, but I would just like just stare at my stomach and hate myself. And so a lot of my healing journey in the past three years that relates to my glow up has been just looking at my belly in the mirror and not sucking up, not trying to flex, not judging and just like holding her and rubbing her and massaging her and being like, belly, I love you. Like, like, I love you. And I think pooches are sexy. Like, it is sexy to have a little like that means you have a womb. What a beautiful thing. We are meant to have a lower belly pooch. It's not something you're supposed to get rid of. It is literally there to protect your womb. And if you didn't have it, you would reach such low levels of body fat that you would stop menstruating, which would lead to a whole host of health issues, issues and of course affect your fertility. So why are we trying to look like men? Yes, men can more easily get abs because men don't need as much body fat to preserve life force. I don't know the exact percentage, but men can go down to like 10% body fat and be fine. For women, if we go under 20% body fat, we're in like, critical danger. And so it's important for us to know that our fat is there for a reason. It's not a bad thing. Even the word fat, it's like, like we see it as something we need to trim off. Like, I remember looking in the mirror as a kid and I would just like, you know, pretend I had scissors and I would want to trim off this fat. And instead now I see it as like, what makes me a woman. You know, if you look at the ancient Venusian statues, the women were like lounging on their sides and they had their belly folds rolled out and they had just luscious cloth over them and they were feeding themselves grapes and it was just so luxurious and indulgent. That is so hot. Like a woman enjoying herself, enjoying her life. That is the sexiest thing and so much sexier than being emaciated and on edge. And maybe you have a perfect body, but at what cost? You know, all you're thinking about is your calories and what you ate and when you're going to work out and how you're going to look tomorrow and whether you're going to be bloated because you ate too much peanut butter. Like, what is the point of living? Think about the energy that you are giving off living that way. Now, this doesn't mean eat, whatever. I definitely shifted my diet and workout and I'll talk about that for my glow up, but it was actually with a level of softening. I actually before my glow up was thinner than I am now. I haven't weighed myself a long time. Maybe 15 pounds thinner I was before and I look so much better now. And before I think I just didn't have enough going on in my life. Like I was just kind of like working and then, you know, in a very long term relationship. And so I wasn't traveling, I wasn't really doing fun things. So I would just focus on my health a lot to the point that I just would eat like, like the healthiest food I could ever eat. Just protein and vegetables and, you know, zero sugar chocolates. And I was just very, very regimented. And to be honest, I think because I wasn't having that much fun in my life compared to the fun I have now, my life force wasn't alive that I was just a little bit emaciated. But I remember even at that time wishing I could get liposuction on my stomach, looking in the mirror and thinking I was too fat. Like, like looking at me then I'm like, girl, you were like a fetus, you know. But even then I felt like I was too fat. Whereas now that I'm, I'm gonna guess at least £15 more than I was before, I feel so much more sexy, so much more magnetic, so much more beautiful. Because the weight distributed on me in this really feminine way because I was more in my feminine energy. Do you have a powerful message that you are ready to share with the world, but the thing that is holding you back is you feel like you are not a great speaker. Maybe you were made fun of as a kid and when you're one on one with your friends, you're. You're on a roll. But suddenly when you think about getting in front of a camera, it's like, holy hell, I have no idea how I'm gonna do that. And I have no idea how you're just talking to a camera on a solo cast. 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So I am taking an extra 25 off for the podcast listeners. So head over to speakwithsolcourse.com that link is also below and use coupon code podcast for 25 off. And I'm so excited to hopefully be on your podcast one day. So trust your intuition, trust you in the wisdom, trust you in the guidance. So what I shifted in terms of my workouts before, I was doing a lot more just following these videos on YouTube with dumbbells and it was a lot of hit and cardio and I was doing strength training, but because I wasn't eating enough, I wasn't actually experiencing gains. So I was just kind of like flat all around. And I definitely had extra fat on my stomach compared to actually what I have now because it was almost like what we call skinny fat. Like I just wasn't eating enough protein and calories to actually have gains from the workout I was doing. And I wasn't actually really building muscle mass. So what Shifted was I started to really take working out in strength training much more seriously. I started to really push myself before I had this belief of if I lift heavy, I'm gonna get bulky and so it's too masculine. I don't want to do it. And I will say everybody's body is different and the way that we even work out with the weights definitely can shift our body. But what I found for myself, that by really strength training and especially focusing on my legs, like I really wanted to have a juicy ass butt like that for me was my goal. And so I was doing a lot of like leg presses, single leg presses, hip thrusts, step ups, Bulgarian split squats, single legged deadlift. So I would put a knee on the bench and use one weight in my hand and, and, and do it like that. Because for me, when I do a deadlift with two hands, it's almost like I, I feel like I'm using more of my whole body than really targeting in my glutes. I don't do a lot of the kickback stuff just because I would prefer to use my time on something that I can like really maximize the weight with. But I do know I definitely will do cable kick bands. So sometimes and using booty bands, I really like booty bands for especially like warming up. I wouldn't say that that's enough to really grow your glutes, but if your goal is to have like a juicier butt. And it doesn't mean that your thighs are going to get huge though our legs have to get bigger to be able to support. You know, the way that you can tell if someone has a fake butt is if they have really small legs and a big like, kind of like unnormal looking butt, then you know it's fake. But when you're just building muscle everywhere, of course you need to also have stronger quad quads and, and hamstrings to support your glutes. So it's really, really bringing in more muscle into all of your body. And then when you have more muscle mass, I'm sure you know this, you're burning more calories throughout the day and then when you're eating more protein. So before I was, you know, not like I would put collagen in my smoothie, but, but that's it. And so I started to actually shift into using protein powders and I eat meat. I was vegan way before this, but I, I was vegan for a period of my life. And I would say that was for me when I was the most like like, skinny fat. For me, I was eating a lot of nuts, and it was just a lot of fat and a lot of calories, but not really protein dense. So I still rarely eat red meat. I just don't resonate with it. But I eat fish a lot. I love eating anchovies. That's something. Or not anchovies, sardines. It's a beauty food. It's so high in omega 3s, it's really affordable. And so I love making a salad where I'll get just like different mixed greens, arugula, like dark leafy green. I love some sprouts on there or micro greens, some cucumber, olives, artichoke, anchovies or sardines. Feta cheese with lemon and olive oil. Like that, to me, is like a perfect, ideal dinner. And so I started to focus more on that. I before would eat a lot of vegan desserts, and I still eat them sometimes, but I was just. Just, you know, going to places and they'd have the vegan dessert and I would get that. And, you know, I'm like, oh, it's coconut sugar. But every single day having them. Or I was drinking kombuchas. Kombuchas have so much sugar in it. Like, really. Unless, like, you really know the source. Most of these kombuchas out there that you're getting at Whole Foods, they're. They don't even have a living scoby in it. So you're not even getting the actual benefits of kombucha. On top of that, if you have any kind of yeast issues, sibo issues, candida, and you're drinking kombucha, it's gonna make it worse. If you look at how much sugar is in there. Like, a lot of these big brands, they've upped and upped and upped their sugar because they've been bought by these major companies. So it's like literally drinking soda. So I still love, like, having a nice drink, but instead I'll. I'll get like an apple cider vinegar one. Or if I want something that's fermented, I'll do a kefir drink which has much less sugar. Or those like lemon drinks that are like lemon water with. That are sweetened with, like, stevia or monk fruit, which. Stevia is controversial in itself. I try not to have too much of it just because it has historically been used as a contraception. Like in Panama. That's what the indigenous people use for contraception, stevia. I'm not trying to have a baby so I'm okay with it. But if you are trying to have a baby, I would definitely not have like think about all the sugar, like the protein powders and chocolates and things like that with stevia. So I really love monk fruit as my preferred sweetener. So I started to have more protein, more nutrient dense foods. No. 2 vegan sugar drinks and snacks. And I still don't snack throughout the day. I'm not a snacker. I eat meals like I probably eat two meals a day. I personally really don't eat breakfast, but I will, I drink a matcha in the morning. So I'll do matcha with collagen shilajit, a plant based milk. I often rotate them so I don't become allergic to a specific one. Yeah, I have like a little like milk heater thing so it heats it in that and I drink that. And then for lunch if I'm out I'll try to do something that's like a protein and vegetables and oftentimes at night if I have like a bigger lunch I'll just have like yogurt with protein powder and blueberries. I definitely eat chocolate. I, I still love it but I go for like the darkest chocolate and if possible ones that are sweetened with monk fruit rather than regular sugar. Though there are definitely way less brands and it's hard to find ones that are actual cacao. And at this point I would actually rather eat a little bit of coconut sugar and have actual cacao than cocoa which is processed. And it may have monk fruit but it's just more processed and it's just going to bring down your vibration because you're eating a processed food. So I'm not counting my macros. I don't put my food in these fitness pal things. I've tried it for like two days and I, to me it just makes me feel very formulaic, very masculine. For me it's way more around how natural this thing is. I would say before I was afraid of fruit. You know, everyone says fruit is too much sugar etc and I wouldn't have it. But have you ever heard of someone being like I gained 20 pounds from apples? Like no. You know, fruit has always been had for thousands of years around the world. Now I won't eat fruit just like as a meal, like I'm not doing like a big plate of fruit. I am mindful of it. It also just depends where I'm at. And I feel so much of beauty. Magic is really working with your environment. So if you are somewhere that's more Tropical, you can have more fruit, fruits because your body is going to require more of that water, more of the electrolytes and it's going to actually be burning through a lot more of those sugars. Just literally being in your environment. Now if you're somewhere that is more desert, like your body doesn't need those, maybe it actually needs something more like dates. Those are grown in the desert. So if you're somewhere like Dubai, like there's stores of every kind of date you can imagine. And that was the superfood there. If you're somewhere really cold, there aren't fruits growing right now. And there's a reason to that, there's an intelligence to that. If there is, it's like cranberries, which are very, very low sugar or pomegranates are winter fruit as well. So, you know, people say it, but it wasn't until I really started to embody it of shifting my diet to where I am. Especially I'm a nomadic person. So if I'm eating the same way in Ubud Bali that I'm eating in la, it's going to feel off. For example, there are different vibrations in different places too. So when I'm in Ubud Bali, which is very, very, very high vibration, it's almost hard to eat there. You are never hungry and because you're so fed by spirit, like I couldn't even imagine eating meat there. It just would. I wouldn't even know how to chew it, to be honest. So there I'm doing way more fruits than I ever normally do. Like smoothie bowls with like soursop and passion fruit and banana and drinking pomegranate juice, drinking tons of coconut water. I would have never had those things somewhere else. It would have led to like too much candida for me. But in Ubud Bali I could have it and it was actually like felt like I was detoxing and like remineralizing with all of these different fruits. But then when I'm somewhere like, you know, right after there I went to Amsterdam to teach at Mindvalley and it's just a lot more dense there. So all of a sudden like I never drink coffee, I was craving coffee. Like that was something entirely different for me. And craving more warm foods, cooked foods, because it was cold. So if I'm drinking, you know, coconut water, I'm going to get too cold and then I'm going to start looking more emaciated. So the way that we eat in relationship to how we are impacts how we appear to people. And so it is important that we do shift our diet locally and seasonally because that's going to allow us to be our healthiest self. Because what is a glow? It is you being healthy. So back on the workout tip, because I know I get so many questions about that. And it's interesting because on that journey of years of me just loving and touching my belly and loving her, I started to actually get abs. And that was something I never had. It was something that, to be honest, I thought my body is not capable of. Like other people just naturally, you know, have more like muscular stomachs and some people don't. And I'm someone that my fat goes there. So it's just not in the cards for me. And what happened, I think because of the self love and the self acceptance that I had, that all of a sudden my belly really actually started to get more strong. And I will say also, I started doing Pilates Mega Reformer. It is different than just the regular Pilates Reformer, which I love. Like I. I did Pilates Reformer today because I knew I was podcasting. And I will share that. Even the way that you work out shifts your vibration and it shifts your consciousness and how you glow up. So when I go to the gym and I'm listening to hip hop music and I'm lifting as heavy as I can done, it's a different consciousness that I will step out of the gym with. And I didn't want to be in that consciousness today. I didn't want to be like, yo, let's hook up some commas. You know, like, it's just a different vibe. So I wanted to be somewhere that was really beautiful and feminine and soft. So I did a regular just Pilates class. It was on a Mega Reformer machine, but it was a more traditional style Pilates class, and I love that. But unless you're new to working out and that's super challenging for you, then that's great. But for me, it's just not challenging enough for me to be able to really see shifts in my body. So doing Mega Reformer, like, you know those more intense ones and we all have different brands where we live, so there's no point me dropping them because they're all different. But these are the ones that it's like, it's fast moving. There's a lot of plank. You're like in plank for the first 10 minutes. You are shaking, you are doing single leg lunge stuff. You are touching muscles that you didn't even know exist existed. That I have found really sculpted me and Especially in my core, because when I'm lifting weights, yes, when you're lifting weights, you're using your entire body, but you're not going into. You're like, not fine tuning all the smaller little muscles that you are. When you are doing something like a mega Reformers Pilates, where you're in a lunge and you know the machine is moving back and forth, so you need to hold, hold everything in, otherwise you'll fall. And so working with stability. And I also really love and I. I swap out different ones, different people I find on Instagram. But these Pilates videos that are all about like really pulsing in one place, kind of like how we do in bar. I have actually found that super, super effective. I found when I was only doing strength training, like, there was probably a year of my life that I was only doing strength training. And I was really listening to how they said, you don't need Pilates, you don't need need cardio. Strength training will give you everything you need. And yes, I did get more fit. I definitely grew my booty, but I didn't have the abs and the sculpt and the arms that I have today that came from incorporating Pilates. So I will say both, because if you're only doing Pilates, you might just get comfortable with it and not be pushing yourself. And you also just need to do progressive overload to really shift. And progressive overload means every single time you're lifting heavier and heavier and heavier. Whereas in a Pilates class, everyone's doing the same resistance and you're doing it every single week. So you're not continuing to push yourself. You're still getting a workout in, but you're not actually growing because you're not pushing yourself enough unless you are adding extra springs or, you know, making it harder for yourself going lower. These are all ways that we're also progressive, overloading, holding things. Something else that I started doing was at the point that it's like the hardest I will hold it. Like, if I'm in a lunge, I'll hold it it and then I'll come up and hold it. So let's say I'll do 12 reps of a lunge, then after the 12, I'll do three that I'm just holding at the bottom. And that, to me, gives me that extra push that really gives me that quivering feeling that I might not get when I'm just doing traditional strength training. So I do find, like, all of the schools of thought are correct, but they work in different ways. And then also just bringing in the energy of what you want to feel that day. If you want to feel super feminine, do more Pilates, you know, bring in more dance. If you want to have more of that bad energy, bring in more of the strength, and you can oscillate them, depending on what you need that day. So we talked about health, we talked about hair, other things with hair, I am on the no poo method. I rarely wash my hair, and I have trained my hair to not get oily. It took time. And I will say I naturally do have more dry hair, but when I was younger and I was washing my hair every day, my hair would get oily every day. So I do know it is actually related to the method. So like no poo method, it's kind of this movement. It's that these synthetic shampoos are not meant for us as humans. They're literally stripping away all of, you know, even our natural oils in our hair. And then what happens is our scalp starts to produce, produce extra oils to make up for the fact that they were stripped. And that's what actually gives us an oily scalp. Whereas in all cultures around the world, they didn't even have, like, foamy shampoo. If they washed their hair, they would use, like, white vinegar or aloe and things like that. Different kinds of flowers as well. In Bali, like those pink flowers that you see all around Bali, they don't have leaves, but they're like these folds and they're kind of this, like, dark magenta. You, you've probably seen them in tropical places. If you squeeze those. That was actually a natural shampoo. So I don't use anything foamy. I don't do foamy cleanser. I actually try not to wear makeup unless I am shooting because I don't want to have to cleanse my face. I'm very like, anti soap kind of like, yes, I'll wash my hands. If I'm out touching things, I will use a normal, like, soap that has alcohol. But my body know a natural soap. And my face, I, I, I'll never put any kind of soapy, foamy thing on my face. I will try to use oils as much as possible to remove makeup or if I have, like, harsher makeup on, like a makeup balm. So a makeup balm is more. It's like the moisture is melting away your makeup as opposed to the foamy suds that are like, yes, they're going into your pores. But then what do your pores have to do after? Produce more oil So I would say probably the thing I'm complimented the most on is my skin. I have strangers stop me every single day and ask me what I do for my skin and it's that I really try to do nothing. So my skincare routine is rose water, just natural, pure rose water, vitamin C serum. I have different serums that like, I'm not, I can't say any of them. I'm like, that's the serum. Like, I've loved different serums. I have one that's like some kind of Korean one, one that nuts, another kind of plant based oil one. I swap them out all the time. To be honest, I haven't really seen one that is like, that made the difference on my face for me. So I would say it's way more probably around the fact that I'm not putting soaps on my face. And I rarely will put foundation on my face. Even when I'm wearing makeup, I won't wear foundation because I don't want to do the scrubbing of my skin. Right now I have a tinted white moisturizer on and so if I'm shooting, I'll do tinted moisturizer. To be honest, like back when I used to get my makeup done, when I look at those pictures, I feel like I looked way older because it would actually start to give me lines because of how heavy it is. Like, I feel like it looks good at the beginning and then it kind of cakes on. So to me, skin care is so much more around preservation than it is like the things that you can do after. Now how do I moisturize? So I love, right now I'm loving doing tallow, beef tallow. So what I learned about it is it's the same cellular structure as your skin. So it's super, super absorbent of your skin. A friend of mine, he and his, his partner make it and they added rose oil and so they gifted me some. I'll actually link it below. I'm loving it because I bought beef tallow before, but it smelled really beef tallow like, and I was like, like, you know, imagine I go on a date and I straight up smell like a cow. Lord Shiva. So I was like, okay, I can't do that. But this one doesn't have a bad smell. And in fact they have like different essential oils within. It's literally the beef tallow with the essential oil and it's like whipped and they literally hand make it. And so that is what I've been using at night, but before that, and, and sometimes as well, I'll do castor oil. So I remember that people were talking about putting castor oil on their skin, and I was like, are you crazy? Like, that is so thick. Like, that's going to clog my pores. Because I used to get a lot of clogged pore whiteheads on my skin, and now I never do, and I use castor oil all the time. So castor oil, even though it's really thick, it actually doesn't clog your pores. In fact, it can be really cleansing of your pores. That's why people use it for cleansing and stuff. So especially while I was in Bali, it was before I had the beef tallow, and so I would just put castor oil on my. My whole face, even around my eyes, on my eyelashes, on my eyebrows, because it makes hair grow. So if you have thin eyebrows or you want to grow your eyelashes, just put castor oil on everything. I swear, castor oil, it's like the panacea. I also love to put castor oil inside my belly button. It's, like, very detoxifying, and I just put it in my belly button, and that's it. But some people, like, put a lot on, and they'll put a patch over it, but for me, if it gets a little on my shirt, I'm. I'm fine with it. So I love the castor oil on there. It's too thick to, like, rub on your whole body. My whole body. Like, right now, I just have jojoba oil on, and so I love it. It's very affordable. And a lot of these oils that we get out are literally just made of jojoba oil. I've also loved making my own. Like, I made this really beautiful homemade oil that I used, used beeswax that I melted on the stove. So I boiled water, and I had a double boiler on top, and I put the beeswax so it melted it, and then I added in the jojoba oil with some rose essential oil, and it actually turned into, like, a balm. And it was super, super nice, because sometimes with oil, you are a bit shiny, and if you have something that you really don't want oil on there. Jojoba oil is very absorbent. It's not like coconut oil, which is just. Just gonna get on everything. It is more absorbent, but if you do it in a bomb form, it's even more like. It's. You know, it gives you that nice lotion, like, feel that sometimes when we get on the healthy path, we miss. So it was so easy to make. I made so much of it. I was like, damn, I should like bottle this up and sell it. And you can even add a little bit of mica. So mica is natural glitter. So we talked about how sparkles are really the thing that, you know, attracts people to you because you become a living oasis. So micia comes from stone, so I'm sure you've seen crystals that are sparkly. I remember someone gifted me one and he was like, you can use it as makeup. I was like, this is so cool. Like my eyeshadow is the stone. You could use mica and put it in your homemade oil, your homemade balm. People make makeup out of it. Like that's maybe the next step of what I'll do of like making homemade makeup with like beetroot for making a rouge on your lips like, or cheek tint. I have also completely shifted to all non toxic makeup up. For me, it is just not worth potentially giving myself cancer or hormonal issues to like have a little bit more of a, you know, brighter shade. Like I'll live, I'll be okay, I'll just put on more. So there's lots of different brands out there. I don't work with any. So you know, there's so many. Look for things that are talc free. You know, when you're looking for powders, definitely for lipstick, you want to do natural because if you're using like, like these regular and they could even be really good brands like Chanel and Maybelline or I mean, I guess Maybelline's more drugstore but like makeup forever. Like these are nars great brands but they're super toxic. And so I'm sure one day they'll come up with their clean solution. But right now, like especially for lips, because you literally end up eating it, you really want to make sure that that is non toxic. So the lip I'm wearing right now is from a brand called Ilia and they have a lot of really great makeup that I love. I think, I think a lot of the makeup that I, I buy is, is from there. So that's a really good brand. There's so many different out there popping up. If you have any you suggest, let me know. But it's a frequency thing. Like you just don't want chemicals that are going to go into your bloodstream and mess up your endocrine system. Like it's just not worth the long term risk. I know. Oh, but it doesn't blend the same way. Like, oh, the natural like, the natural companies are getting better and better and better that even a lot of top makeup artists are choosing to use them. So trust me, I love makeup. I love the art of makeup. I have been able to recreate any kind of look I want with all natural products. So the other little thing, because so many people. And let me know, my friends were like, can you start doing talking videos of you talking about spirituality but, like, doing your makeup? Like, we want to see how you do your makeup. I was like, really? Would people like that for me? So let me know if you do. But I will say the hack of how I always have my eyeshadow are looking great. And I do my own makeup on this podcast always. Even if I'm on stage, like, the times I've gotten my makeup done, I always hate it. Like, I've had my makeup done well, you know, for my music videos and stuff. But, like, I remember I was in Dubai and I mean, some of them were on this podcast. They did my makeup and it was so much. I was like, I hate this Mind Valley. And she put on all this, like, black, like, smoky eye under my eyes. My eyes looked this big. But anyways, Mind Valley tip for eyeshadow is just get one of those little, like, you can even use a card, but there's these little papers that you can put right here and you can stick them on. You can either stick them on, like, a lot of them are sticky or just hold it so you can keep reusing it. That's what I do. And you do your eyeshadow like this and then it's not getting on this part. So then when you take it off, you have that up winged look. Today I couldn't find mine. So what I did was I put my eyeshadow on. So for me, my favorite thing I like to do that I'm not doing today, but my typical go to is I'll do like a beige on my whole lid. I'll do a darker, like, tav kind of color on my crease and really blend up. Problem that a lot of us do is we go like straight into the crease, which is like a very millennial thing. But we actually want to be kind of above the crease. Get a new brush, guys, I swear, so many of us are using the same brushes. If you are using one of those little foam things that come in the eyeshadow packs, please just stop listening to this podcast and go get yourself a actual, like, fan brush and get one that is a little bit bigger and more out than you normally do. Because with makeup brushes, it's everything. It's more important than the kind of makeup you use is the brush that you use. So if you're using something that's really pointed, it's just going to be really direct. And what I see a lot of people do is they'll do like, one eyeshadow color on their base and then, like, you know, something right on their outer. And it looks like a line. It's not blended in. What makes eyeshadow really beautiful is the way that it's blended in. So I will do my beige and I'll work above the crease and really blend out. I like to more focus on my outer. I like that more winged out, cat like look. And then I will do the brown on just the outer crease here. And I will put, you know, my. My little piece of paper so I'm not getting the bottoms. And then today I didn't have the little piece of paper, so I actually just took a Q tip with eye cream, and so I cleaned it up with that cupid with eye cream. So that's another really good way to get that line. I swear, these lines, it just is. The thing that makes your look go from, like, homemade to, like, professional is, like, the clean, sleek lines that we see. I can't say the one thing of makeup, but, like, one of my main things of makeup, more than anything on my face is the eyeshadow. I swear, eyeshadow can completely shift how you look. It can completely open up and brighten your eye. And you actually don't really need eyeliner most of the time. Even on this podcast, I'm not wearing eyeliner. If I do wear eyeliner, I will just put a little bit on the outer corners and I'll use my nail, like, my long nail, and I'll actually kind of bring my finger up to make a line rather than using the whole pencil. Like, you know, the whole cat eye thing that we. We. We learned of. Like, you know, you do this and that. That's a lot. You're going to get a lot of eyeshadow. You're going to kind of have that, like, Egyptian look, which you can do, but I feel like it's a little bit 2010. Instead, I'll just put a little bit here and I'll use my nail to kind of just toss it up. Today because I tried something new. I did a brown eyeshadow on the inner and outer. I don't know what you guys think. I personally wouldn't do it again. And then because it was so much eyeshadow, I felt like I needed to do do eyeliner on the whole top part. And then I was like, you know what? Let me roll with it. And so I used a brown eyeliner pencil on my bottom, but instead of really going inside, I went on the lash line. And so that is my look today. And it's a little bit more of a smoky eye look. And I feel like sometimes these things do look better on camera. We're so used to seeing ourselves without makeup that when we see we're like, what? This is too much? But later on, it does look good. I love colored eyeliner pencils. I feel like that is a really, really beautiful way to just like, add a little. A bit of glam to your look. So if you have hazel eyes, doing a little bit of a purple eyeliner pencil on the bottom just makes that green in it pop. I also love, like, a green eyeliner pencil blue. Like, play with colors. I have found when you do something outside of the box, it ends up being the thing that people really compliment you on. So if someone sees, you know, green, sparkly eyeliner on the bottom of some, like, whoa, what is that? And again, the sparkle, we're attracted to that. So play with that a little bit more. I used to, years ago, like, 2018 vibes do eyelash extensions, and then one day, I just became allergic to it. Like, my eyelid, like, inflamed, and it was so bad. It was my body being like, no, this is synthetic. Like, you cannot do this anymore. So I've not done eyelash extensions in, like, six, six years. Sometimes I'll do the press on ones on myself, just like, you know, lily lashes, these different brands, and they do look nice, but I just hate how it feels. And I also just don't want to have that glue on my eyes. And then the removing of it, and you have to remove it a lot harder, and then sometimes the glue stays on you. So I just do straight mascara. And again, a lot of clean companies have brilliant mascaras. I try not to curl my eyelashes too much because it does does, you know, weaken them every single time. So I try not to curl the eyelashes. I just put mascara on. I don't have it today. But when you're doing just a clean look, maybe you're just doing an ivory or champagne eyeshadow. But just do beautiful mascara on the top and bottom can really brighten you up. Now, another secret that I love is doing a champagne or white eyeliner pencil on the bottom. So that brightens up your look and it's going to make you feel a lot more alive and, and awake because it's actually lengthening the whites of your eyes. So typically that's what I'll have on even on the podcast. Just this champagne colored eyeliner on the bottom and then you can do some mascara on bottom. It looks like so doll like and cute. Another thing that I really see trending and I love is using these eyebrow like gels. So you literally like gel your eyebrows up and it gives you that like awake eyebrow look. I personally then kind of bring it down just cuz my eyebr pretty thick and long that if I have them like once I got my eyebrows laminated guys, I wouldn't do that again. I looked scary like my Persian eyebrows cannot. But they do look really cute on people. And so it kind of depends and it is, it's very trending right now. But like I have a friend of mine and she never wears makeup and I bought her a couple things as a gift and I got her that and I was like, just try it. And all of a sudden she just looked so much more like put together. So if I'm just going to the gym, like at the gym, I don't like to wear masculine mascara because I always sweat and it runs down and then I look way worse. It's just not worth it. So I've learned for the gym I'm a lip gloss girly. The champagne eyeliner on the bottom and my eyebrow gel. So those are like easy things that I could have on for the rest of the day. And it's not gonna like deplete. It's not something that it's hard to remove. Like literally just an oil cleanser. You don't even really need that most of the time. It just kind of comes off. So. So that is my go to for just like not really wearing makeup if I want a little bit of something or maybe I'll do concealer if I'm you know, trying to look cute. And I found that like oftentimes we think we need all the foundation, but it actually blocks the brightness of our face. Like I saw this video and it was showing this makeup artist, her with foundation and her just using concealer on any spot. And she looks so much better with the concealer because there's something about our auras. You know, in, in Ayurveda we call this Ojas energy. It's that like, you know, a little kid, they have like the bright flush of their face when we cover that with foundation. Then we need to put all on all the blush and then all the highlighter and all of this and that to like rebuild what we had. So instead, if there's any spots you want to cover, use concealer. But also like sunspots are freckles. Like they are cute, like, like they're not something we need to cover. Like some of the most gorgeous girls I see have beautiful freckles on their skin. And I, I love it. People now are putting freckles on their skin. So lean into the things that you used to cover up. How can you actually work with them? And now I know a lot of women say, well, I have really bad dark circles. So yes, those of us that are more melanated, like Indian, Persian, like we tend to have more dark circles. And I have found it really depends on how you're eating, where you are. For me, like I was in New York and I really rarely get dark circles now because of the attunement I have to my health. But all of a sudden I had really bad dark circles and it was because of the pollution there, because I wasn't sleeping well, I was puffy, I was on a new bed. I think maybe I was allergic to something in that bed. It was like literally like a histamine kind of, of response. And then when I shifted back to my pillow, that silk pillow that's non toxic and I wear my silk eye mask on top. So I'm sleeping well throughout the night. I love to sleep on a firm mattress as much as possible. And so just elevating my sleep made the dark circles go away again. So I would say a lot of it is related to sleep now. There are a lot of brightening things that you can do. You know, growing up, my grandma would always have every kind of food on her face. Like she would mash strawberries and put strawberries on her skin. She would do yogurt on her skin. Honey, oranges. So all of these have different properties depending on what you need. So in India and in Persian culture, if you're looking for brightening yogurts, they're going to really brighten your skin. Oranges as well. Strawberries for like that, like strawberries. Like when I was a kid, that was like my blush that I would do. And it's also really, really hydrating. Honey is really hydrating. Avocado is super hydrating. Hydrating. So we can actually work with foods as our masks. And to be honest, if you wouldn't eat it, why would you put it on your skin? When your skin is your largest organ. So taking care of our skin, taking care of our hair, hair oils on our hair, massaging our scalp, something I just try to do is I just stand there and I'll just massage my scalp and bring life force back into it. The reason why so many of us have hair loss is because we're just, you know, today I did this ponytail. I would not do this every day, guys. Like, this is like, like a once in a a month thing for me because it's not good for my hair to have my hair pulled back like this. It is going to cause breakage. And a lot of girls do this every single day. And so I feel like it's really asking yourself, like, when is it worth it to do the things that are not so good for us? Like, yes, sometimes we're going to do it because of the vibe, but then when we are at home or we're just kind of going to work or the things that we normally do, is it worth it? Like, is it worth going to the gym with a full face of makeup when it's clogging your pores and you're going to have to remove it? Like, like, is there anyone there you even talked to that was worth doing all that makeup for? Like, we got to ask ourselves these questions. So be in as much of a rejuvenating state as possible. And I love, like making skincare. Your makeup, like, just putting on serums is going to give you that brightness. And with a little bit of lip gloss, it really gives you that dewiness that then all of the highlighters are trying to replace. So. So we went really deep into the beauty stuff. And I'll share more about the energetics as well. I'm going to do another podcast about the laws of the sacred feminine. I'm writing my next book right now, which is all about initiation into sacred feminine. It's something I'm so passionate about. It's something that has shifted how I see myself, how I show up in the world, my self confidence, my self love, what I accept and allow into my life. Like, everything has evolved and up leveled really from taking care of myself, taking care of my beauty, seeing my beauty been I've as sacred, seeing my body as an altar, seeing adorning myself with jewelry, with oils, with all of these things as something that elevates me, that's honoring the goddess that is me. You know, oftentimes when we have kids, we want them to wear organic cotton and not do anything toxic, but then we do all these toxic things on ourselves. So treat yourself the way that you would want to treat your baby. You know, give yourself that same level of love and. And cleanliness because you deserve that. You guys ask for more solo cast. I'm doing more solo casts. So let me know any other topics you guys have. Be sure to hit subscribe to stay up to date with future episodes and I'll see you in the next one. 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