Ep 162: Chasing Beauty – A painful fixation on our looks

Help Me Be Me

Cloud10

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This is an episode for anyone who feels like they are obsessed with being prettier, younger, something-er, in some external way, and you feel that it is reducing your wellbeing in life. This came up when I was interviewed by Melissa Rivers. She asked something like, “What if you’re never happy with the way you look? How do you stop feeling that way?” What she was struggling with was the emptiness and that feeling of never enough that comes with a constant pursuit of beauty. The products, the treatments, the correcting of some flaw we see in our physical selves. What happens if you are an image-focused person, or you happen to live in a society that is super image-focused, is you get warped. You stop being able to see yourself and instead you only see what is wrong with yourself. So if you could use a new lens, this is an episode for you! And heads up – it’s a messy episode! Sorry hahaha. My whole family has COVID right now. Happy new year lovely friends… xo Sarah May B. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, friends. Happy new year. It's Sarah May. And sorry, I have to do a couple of
0:09.8	prefaces before I start this one. I'm going to ask you, cut me some slack today
0:15.2	because my family got COVID for Christmas and I haven't been able to talk for a
0:20.4	few weeks, but I'm doing my best today. I think I can make it through the
0:24.7	episode. And also I'm in the garage because the children are home. So it's maybe
0:34.0	you're going to be noisier and it's freezing in here. So you're going to hear my
0:39.2	puffy coat probably. Okay, those are my caveats. And then also I because we've
0:46.2	been sick for literally weeks, I am a... It's probably a looser episode. I wrote it
0:53.7	but I didn't reread it and edit it. So if you catch some sentences, you're like,
0:59.0	huh? I don't know what that meant. Sorry. Sorry in advance. And what else did I
1:06.7	have to tell you? I think that's everything. Oh, yeah, one more thing. Whoever... Pause. Sorry.
1:15.8	There we go. Whoever wrote a review about the ads being too many ads heard you and I'm
1:27.3	going to take out the... Basically the ones that are not me. So that's for you. I
1:36.1	heard you and I'm... I'm here and you and I'm changing it. So everybody else can
1:42.4	thank you for that. Okay, with that, there are three parts. The what, the why, and the
1:48.6	how, the tools. So this is an episode I'm calling chasing the outside. And this is actually
1:56.4	a topic I wrote down when a Melissa Rivers interviewed me. I don't know when that was a year ago.
2:03.0	And because this is something she was really interested in and she kept asking me about
2:06.7	and it's actually something else somebody else requested an episode on. So I thought I should
2:12.7	do that one because it's something that actually comes up for me as well. And by chasing the
2:17.4	outside, I mean, when you get into that position mentally, of constantly pursuing, I can be
2:26.2	better. I can be cuter. I can be sexier. I can be hotter. I can... If I fix this, I'll be...
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