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Skincare as Selfcare: Sharing My Daily Routine as a #SkinBabe

Skincare as Selfcare: Sharing My Daily Routine as a #SkinBabe

LifestyleGiuliana CorteseJune 27, 2018Comment

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Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don’t think you have to choose one over the other. → @hal_elrod
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I have a vivid imagination. And while it’s my big, beautiful superpower, it can also be my kryptonite. 💥
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You see, I can envision myself in the future: kicking 🍑 and rocking out my life.
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My book is written. My business is in motion. I’m getting up at 5am to run, pray and eat a balanced breakfast. ☀️
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My reality? I’m still writing. I’m still strategizing and planning and branding. I’m hitting snooze on my alarm clock until 8:30 (sometimes 9:00) more often than I’d like. Yikes. 😬
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But you know, recently, I’ve been learning to make peace with my placement: where I am right now.
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I know I’m here, at this spot, for a reason. 🦋
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Have you ever had a time in your life when you got something you wanted years later and you thought, “Wow, I’m glad it happened when it did and not a moment sooner.”
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Trust where you are right now.✨
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I’m learning to trust the process. To roll up my sleeves and dig into the now. To quit trying so hard to force things to happen faster than they want to happen.
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And to remind myself that it’s okay if I want to take a break from the “doing” sometimes and watch the @HallmarkChannel instead. (#GuiltyPleasure)
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I’m going to enjoy where I am rn because that’s all there is (like, actually).
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Be gentle with yourself, beautiful. You’re not behind, you’re right on time. Because it’s your fabulous, messy life. You set the pace. 💪♥️ XO, G

I tend to stop writing when I'm working out my internal knots. 😖
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It's ironic because it's when I need writing the most.
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When I'm wrestling with an old wound because it's trying to speak to me -- and I don't want to listen.
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Those are the moments when putting pen to paper is the most terrifying. When reflection feels less fun.
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The truth is that it's scary to face our feelings. But it's also incredibly necessary for our mental, emotional & spiritual health.
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If we don't take the time to pause 👂— our subconscious WILL find other ways to get us to pay attention. And they often manifest themselves in less than ideal ways.
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Situations, old feelings, memories will begin to surface to guide us toward whatever it is we're avoiding or whatever feeling we rather not feel.
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Listen. Allow. Feel the emotion in your body. And love 👏 all 👏 of 👏 it.
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Love your self-judgment. Love your guilt. Love your discomfort. Love your shame. ♥️🔥
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It's a process. But even a SECOND of our own love can heal us.
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Because as much as we think we need some kind of external result in our lives to feel better, the real void we’re looking to fill comes from inside of us first. 🙏
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If you want to get into a journaling, but are unsure where to start, check out my free writing guide (link in bio) or DM me directly. 📝💕
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I'd love to help you with a short (but so sweet) heart-centered writing practice. xoxo

Don't let your flame die out. Do whatever you need to do. But keep it going. 🔥
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Let your hair down. Dance. Take a cold shower. Paint. Run. Jump.🤸🏻‍♀️✨
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But, whatever you do, make sure that child-like twinkle still burns bright. ☀️ 🧚🏼‍♀️

Express yourself. Don’t walk around with the burden of unsaid things, unlived talents, and untold stories.
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Free yourself. Live out loud. → @cleowade, #HeartTalk ♥️
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BAM! 💥 It’s almost the long weekend (so close, I can feel it). Here’s to speaking and living what lies in your heart. xoxo

Baby, you’re a swan. ✨
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When I was 3 years old, my mom found me sobbing in front of the TV.
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I was watching the Ugly Duckling 🐥 cartoon & he was singing a song about not belonging, being different, feeling lonely.
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I cried with him. Apparently, so hard that my mom threatened to turn it off. 😭
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She couldn’t comprehend that such a tiny human could get that emotional about a cartoon (not much has changed, tbh 🤣).
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The thing is: I couldn’t understand why the ducks had to be so mean to the “ugly” duckling. All he wanted was to be loved, to be understood.
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This has become one of my core stories. Because I still resonate with the little duckling’s pain in longing for a tribe.
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If you’ve ever felt like you have to shrink yourself to fit in or hide who you are in order to be loved and accepted, please hear me:
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Baby, you’re a swan. ✨
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Do not let the ducks of the world dim your light & make you feel small.
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It has nothing to do with you. 🙅🏻‍♀️
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Just because others may not understand you, doesn’t mean you’re not meant to shine. ☀️
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Like the moment when the ugly duckling looks into the pond & realizes what (s)he truly is, the world needs YOU in all of your beautiful radiance.
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Shine on, girlfriend xoxo ✌️

AP, looking up from his paper: “Babe... what are you doing?"
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GC: "I'm clearing the energy in our apartment.”🧘🏻‍♀️
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AP: "Oh... Okay.” 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Continues to read @WSJ 🗞 while I dance around him with a smudge stick, blasting @SnatamKaurKhalsa. 🎶
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I love dancing between 2️⃣ worlds. 🌎 ✨ Can anyone else relate? 🤣
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PS: How amazing is @LaurenLouisePhoto for capturing these Inca goddess vibes? 📷 😍

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
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It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
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We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
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There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
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We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
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It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. → @mariannewilliamson // If you’re seeing this post, it’s time to shine. ☀️

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