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Finding the balance to feel good about yourself, both inside and out, is not always an easy task. Food, exercise, cosmetics, emotional control … Sometimes we don’t know how to manage everything at once, while they approach us everywhere with new methods to feel good.
For this reason Miriam Llantada, professional psychologist e influence of profession, he has written Beautiful on the inside, happy on the outside (Grijalbo), a book that aims to facilitate the path to well-being and make it available to any woman.
All this combining advice on nutrition, exercise and ‘routine beuty’, but closely linked to mental and emotional health, which occupies half of the content of the text, and which Llantada knows is essential to achieve real well-being.
Cover of ‘Beautiful on the inside, happy on the outside’.
“In my experience as a psychologist sometimes came girls who felt bad, who had very low self-esteem, and I saw the best because maybe they had poorly cared eyebrows, fatal hair … In the interventions I proposed that also they were taken care of externally and the truth is that they improved a lot. Beauty has always been treated as something superficial, but it is not“It has to be taken into account and that’s why for me doing an integration of everything is fundamental”, he explains to Shop.
Although its vocation always was to become therapist, something that obtained when finishing the degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Family Therapy, The loss of a person close to her made her turn her life around. “At that time I didn’t feel ready to practice as a therapist, and from there I dedicated myself to the children’s branch. I worked with children as something more. light and then I went to the part of the company, dedicated to the selection of staff in a multinational “.
Tired of the business world she set out to create her own block Secrets and colors, Specializing in skin care. “I started in 2013, when there weren’t very professional blogs to say it. The truth is, I loved the communication work.” He also created his YouTube channel to complement the content of the blog, in which he surpasses the 200,000 subscribers.
“I always had skin and acne problems. From a very young age I started researching 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 he took me out. acne and at two months I had a much more intense outbreak again. I started studying the ingredients I became like the influence of my friends and family. Everyone was telling me to ask myself, ”he recounts.
This self-taught apprenticeship, coupled 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 herself sums up, “is a compendium on women-centered wellness”.
“If you want to feel better and you don’t know where to start because here we give you a lot of ideas so you can say good I’ll start here or there. It’s a bit like a map to be able to understand what you’re missing or what you need “.
Female collective fallacies
The reason why Beautiful on the inside, happy on the outside is aimed at women is that “there are many beliefs that limit us and they prevent us from developing. “
“Working with women in therapy you realize that we all have a tendency to have certain limiting beliefs that men don’t suffer the same, even though they have other things that aren’t good either. We have certain social and historical burdens which limits us more and that’s why I wanted to make this book focused on women ”.
Thus he devotes a chapter to the “female collective fallacies” ranging from the impostor syndrome to the “stigma of hysteria” or that “without a man you are incomplete.” “These fallacies influence a lot, especially because they cause us to unconsciously do certain things that we may not want to do. For example, to get them to value us more because we didn’t show anger because ‘a woman shouldn’t be angry.’ These are things that prevent us from living freely and basically that well-being is freedom. ”
‘Tips’ for well-being
Although there are many ways to achieve well-being, Miriam Llantada gives her favorite ‘tips’:
“The first is to try to sleep the best you can. I have a video on how to sleep well because today we have a lot of stimuli, a lot of screen, that make our sympathetic nervous system activated and make it hard for us to sleep soundly. Going to bed early, following the rhythms and sleeping well is essential for the skin. “
Another key that all experts recommend to make us feel better is sports, but Llantada specifically suggests dancing. “Dancing is free. You can dance at home by posting YouTube, it’s great for the skin, it secretes hormones from happiness to sleep well, to feel good … I keep fit like that. Dancing also generates joy and can be done with the family, with the children, alone or accompanied “.
Then there is the facial cleansing for proper skin care and a good food. “Sometimes we think eating well is expensive and yes, organic food is more expensive, but it’s also true that pizza fries aren’t cheap either,” he alleges. In the end the key to everything is, both in the food and in the products beauty, “Know well what you need.”
Be undemanding
In case you want to start following the tips to achieve well-being, Llantada gives two other important tips: go slowly and not be very demanding.
“You have to follow people who have a training and try to simplify, Learn little by little, because of course, it is true that cosmetics is a science that must be learned in small injections, if you do not get stuck. Just like you have to see what works best for you and what time you have. A woman with three children and having to work outside the home is not the same as someone who lives alone and has more time. That also influences. ”
Once you know what you need and what recommendations work best for you, you need to be patient and not be too demanding. “There are women who come in maybe 45 and tell me ‘Miriam is that I’ve never taken care of my skin and now I’m starting to realize that I have it very badly.’ Here you have to control expectations and not trying to rejuvenate 20 years at a time“.