What Beauty Standards Are Causing You Harm?

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Everybody’s view of beauty is different, but there are parts of the beauty industry and society’s forced ideas that are causing you harm. This week on Self-Care Daily, we are going to explore this in a deep way. In what ways do you feel like you’re not enough? And how can we dismantle our conditionings and break free? Tune in to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.2	Hi friends. Welcome back to Self Care Daily and to a whole new week of inner work here on the show.
0:42.3	I am right now feeling super inspired by something I shared on my big podcast on Friday.
0:49.9	This is the little podcast and then there's the big podcast from the heart, my long format podcast
0:55.3	that's out every Friday. I talked about the concept of ugly dancing, which is this little
1:02.5	practice I have where I try to fully let go of every norm and idea of beauty that has been projected my way since I was born. And I allow my
1:15.9	wildest, most feral self to come through as I move my body. And I talk about how liberating that is
1:22.8	and how freeing that is. And so it's really inspired me to have a week here on this show dedicated to breaking down
1:30.5	the beauty norms that are actually sort of ruining our lives. Now, everybody's version and
1:39.0	view of beauty is a little bit different. But since you're a human being living in this world, I know that there are
1:46.3	parts of the beauty industry and society's forced idea of what we are supposed to look like
1:56.0	that is causing you harm today. I know there is a part of you that's longing to feel really
2:02.3	comfortable and free in your own skin, where you want to sort of put down the fight, right?
2:11.4	That fight that we're all engaged in, the fight against time, the fight against aging, the fight against the body, where a part of
2:21.8	us just wants to be free, just wants to live life from that place of who we actually are
2:28.3	and the things that are actually interesting instead of spending all our time, energy,
2:33.8	resources, sanity on the very
2:36.4	futile task of trying to look prettier every day.
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