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Finding the balance to feel good about yourself, both inside and out, is not always an easy task. Nutrition, exercise, cosmetics, emotional control … Sometimes we don’t know how to arrange everything at once, while we are everywhere approached with new methods of feeling good.
For this reason Miriam Llantada, career psychologist e influence by profession, has written Beautiful on the inside, cheerful on the outside (Grijalbo), a book that aims to facilitate the path to wellness and make it available to every woman.
All of this combines advice on nutrition, exercise and ‘beuty routine’, but closely linked to mental and emotional health, which makes up half of the content of the text, and which Llantada knows is essential to achieving true wellness.
Cover of ‘Beautiful on the inside, happy on the outside’.
“In my experience as a psychologist, sometimes girls came along who felt bad, who had very low self-esteem, and I saw the best because they might have had bad eyebrows, deadly hair … In the interventions, I suggested that they they also took care of themselves externally and the truth is they improved a lot. Beauty has always been treated as superficial, but it isn’t, you have to take it into account and that’s why integrating everything is essential for me, ”he says Store
Although her calling was always to be a therapist, she achieved something after completing the Psychology and a Masters in Family Therapy, the loss of a person close to her changed her life. At the time, I didn’t feel ready to practice as a therapist, and from there I devoted myself to the infantile branch. I worked with children as one more thing light and then I went to the corporate section dedicated to staff selection in a multinational ”.
She was tired of the business world and wanted to create it blog Secrets and colors, specialized in skin care. “I started in 2013, when there weren’t any very professional blogs, so to speak. The truth is, I loved the communication work.” He also created his YouTube channel to complement the blog’s content, in which he created the 200,000 subscribers
“I always had skin and acne problems. From a very young age I started to explore why creams didn’t work for me, why I went to the dermatologist and what he gave me didn’t work for me, or why acne came on and then had two months I have a much more intense outbreak again. I began to study the ingredients I became like the influence from my friends and my family. Everyone called to ask me, ”he says.
This self-taught degree, along with a master’s degree in dermopharmacy and cosmetic formulation, completed her knowledge to launch her blog and now publish her book, which, as she sums up, is’ a compendium on wellness aimed at women. ”
“If you want to feel better and you don’t know where to start, we give you a lot of ideas here so you can say well, I’ll start here or there. It’s a bit like a map to understand what your lack of. or whatever you need. “.
Feminine collective fallacies
The reason why Beautiful on the inside, cheerful on the outside is aimed at women is that “there are many beliefs that limit us and they prevent us from developing ”.
“When you work with women in therapy, you realize that we all tend to have certain limiting beliefs that men don’t suffer in the same way, even though they have other things that aren’t good either. social and historical burdens that restrict us more and that is why I wanted to focus this book on women ”.
For example, he devotes a chapter to the “female collective fallacies” that range from the impostor syndrome to the “stigma of hysteria” or that “without a man you are incomplete”. “These fallacies have a lot of influence, especially because they unconsciously make us do certain things that we might not want to do. For example, to make them appreciate us more because we don’t show anger because ‘a woman shouldn’t get angry.’ keep us from living in freedom and in fact that well-being is freedom ”.
‘Tips’ for well-being
While there are many ways to achieve wellness, Miriam Llantada gives her favorite ‘tips’:
The first thing is to try sleep the best you can. I have a video on how to sleep well because nowadays we have a lot of stimuli, a lot of screen, which activates our sympathetic nervous system and makes it difficult for us to sleep deeply. Going to bed early, following the rhythm and sleeping well is essential for the skin. “
Another key that all experts recommend for feeling better is sports, but Llantada specifically suggests dancing. “Dancing is freeYou can dance at home by playing YouTube, it’s fantastic for the skin, it secretes happiness hormones to sleep well, feel good … That’s how I stay in shape. Dancing also brings joy and can be done with the family, with the children, alone or with someone ”.
Then there is the Facial cleansing for good skin care and a good nutrition“Sometimes we think that good food is expensive and yes, organic food is more expensive, but it is also true that chips and pizza are not cheap either,” he says. Ultimately, the key to everything is in the food and the products beauty, “knows what you need”.
Don’t be demanding
If you want to start following the tips to achieve wellness, Llantada offers two other important tips: go little by little and don’t be too picky.
“You have to follow people who have received training and try to simplify, learn little by little, because of course it is true that cosmetics are a science to be learned in small injections, if you don’t tie them up. Just like you have to see what suits you best and what time you are. A woman with three children who has to work outside the home is not the same as someone who lives alone and has more time. That also affects “.
Once you know what you need and which recommendations are best for you, be patient and not be too demanding. “There are women who give their best when they are 45 years old and they tell me ‘Miriam is that I have never taken care of my skin and now I am starting to realize that I am very sorry’. control. and do not pretend to rejuvenate 20 years at a time