The Inner Makeover: Confidence about your looks

Dealing with body dysmorphia, feeling unattractive — and manifesting a better body image

The beauty industry is worth billions a year. People are paying a fortune to try to make themselves look better. It’s arguable if it works, or if it’s just a never-ending quest. But it’s an important subject for so many people. For some, looking good is an obsession based on constantly feeling they are not good enough.

Feeling unattractive

Since lockdown, depression and anxiety related to body image has skyrocketed. Reasons include people having more time to critique themselves in mirrors etc, and also due to the technology that enabled so many people to work from home. Unflattering camera shots on Teams etc are like staring at a reflection in a bad mirror for much of the day. They have sent certain people reeling into cosmetic surgery research.

Although I’m all for whatever support we are guided to use — if we try to fix the “out there” image without making the shift within, we will sort one feature only to move our self-criticism to another one. That is why even when people take time to correct a problem, the problem shifts to something else. The problem is the mindset. What needs to be fixed is the level of self-confidence rather than…