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Finding 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 we are approached everywhere with new methods to feel good.
For this reason Miriam Llantada, career psychologist e influence by profession, he wrote Beautiful inside, happy 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 “training routine”, but closely related 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.
“Enough inside, happy outside” cover.
“From my experience as a psychologist, sometimes came girls who felt bad, who had a very low self-esteem, and I saw the best ones because maybe they took poor care of their eyebrows, fatal hair … In the interventions I had them proposed and they took care of themselves externally and the truth is that they have improved a lot. Beauty has always been treated as superficial, but it is not, you have to take it into account and that’s why for me integration is everything essential “, he says Store.
Although her vocation has always been to become a therapist, something she did at the end of her studies Diploma in psychology and master’s degree in family therapy, the loss of a loved one caused her life to return. “At that time I did not feel ready to practice as a therapist and from there I dedicated myself to the children’s branch. I worked with children as another thing. easy 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 it BLOGS Secrets and colors, specialized in skin care. “I started in 2013, when there were no very professional blogs, so to speak. The truth is that I really enjoyed the communication work.” He also created his YouTube channel to complete the content of the blog, in which he goes beyond 200,000 subscribers.
“I’ve always had skin and acne problems. From an early age I started to investigate why creams don’t work for me, why I went to a dermatologist and what he gave me didn’t work for me or why acne cleared up. and after two months I had a much more intense outbreak again. I started studying the ingredients I became like influence of my friends and family. Everyone called me to ask, “he says.
This self-taught learning, together with a master’s degree in dermopharmacy and cosmetic formulations, completed their knowledge to launch their blog and now to publish their book, which, as she summarizes, “is a compendium on well-centered on women. ”
“If you want to feel better and you don’t know where to start, then here we offer you a lot of ideas, so you can say well, I’ll start here or there. It’s a bit like a map to understand what what is missing or what you need. “
Female collective errors
The reason for which Beautiful inside, happy outside addresses women is that “there are many beliefs that limit us and it prevents us from developing ”.
“Working with women in therapy, you realize that we all tend to have certain limiting beliefs that men do not suffer in the same way, even though they have other things that are not good. social and historical burdens that limits us more and that’s why I wanted to make this book focused on women ”.
Thus, he dedicates a chapter to “female collective errors” that range from the imposter’s syndrome to the “stigma of hysteria” or that “without a man you are incomplete.” “These mistakes influence a lot, especially because they make us unconsciously do certain things that we may not want to do. For example, to make them value us more because we don’t show anger because” a woman they should not get angry. “There are things that prevent us from living freely and practically that well-being is freedom.”
“Tips” for well-being
Although there are many ways to achieve well-being, Miriam Llantada offers her favorite “tips”:
“The first thing is to try are you sleeping the best possible. I have a video on how to sleep well because nowadays we have many stimuli, a lot of screen, which make our sympathetic nervous system activated and it is difficult for us to sleep deeply. Going to bed early, following rhythms and sleeping well is essential for the skin. “
Another key that all experts recommend to feel better is sports, but Llantada specifically suggests dancing. “The dance is free. You can dance at home playing YouTube, it’s fantastic for the skin, it secretes hormones of happiness to sleep well, to feel good … I stay in shape like that. Dancing also creates joy and can be done with the family, with the children, alone or with someone ”.
Then it is Facial cleansing for proper skin care and a good nutrition. “Sometimes we think that eating well is expensive and yes, organic food is more expensive, but it is true that french fries and pizza are not cheap either,” he says. Ultimately, the key to everything is both in food and in products beauty, “You know what you need.”
Be steadfast
If you want to start following the tips to ensure your well-being, Llantada gives you two other important tips: go little by little and don’t be too pretentious.
“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 are a science that must be learned in small injections, if you do not bind them. Just like you have to see what suits you best and what time you have. 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. And that influences. ”
Once you know what you need and what recommendations are best for you, you have to be patient and not be too demanding. “There are women who reach their maximum when they are 45 years old and they say to me, ‘Miriam, I’ve never taken care of my skin and now I’m starting to realize that I’m very stupid.’ There you have to control expectations. and don’t pretend to be 20 years old at the same time“.