A while back, a relative came over to visit for Chinese New Year. She saw a photo of me 10 years ago vs now and commented that she could not recognise me at all. She asked if I did plastic surgery.
While I didn’t do plastic surgery, here’s what I gathered looking back at the past 10 years of my life that caused this major change.
1. Emotions
Your emotions affect how you feel about yourself and your overall outlook.
I grew up in a toxic environment with controlling parents who were critique with every of my actions. I was a no confidence person and always in tears.
Due to self-abasement, I didn’t feel I deserve any respect and allowed people to treat me the way they wanted. At the same time, I wanted to feel validated and often threw temper at my friends.
Now I allow myself to feel my emotions. When I am sad, I will take a deep breath and tell myself this shall pass and give myself some space.
2. Lifestyle habits
I turn to food whenever I was unhappy. I was eating several big meals a day and using emotional eating to suppress my feeling of sadness and unfairness. Food high in sugar and fat became my best friend since it was cheap and easily available. Sugar destroys collagen and my skin was constantly breaking out. My weight once shot up to 70Kg (I am 158cm) and I was feeling sluggish all the time.
Now I don’t turn to food when I sad. Instead, I listen to music and take walks to clear my mind.
3. Invisalign
I have imperfect teeth growing up. They were crooked and it affected my confidence to even open my mouth. I was constantly worried about what my friends would think about my teeth each time I speak.
I am glad I made the decision to go for invisalign. It helped remodel my face shape and regained my confidence to smile and speak.
4. Mindset
I used to wallow in self pity and didn’t realise the energy I was bringing to myself and others was draining everyone’s energy.
Over the years, I have learnt to accept my situation and let go of my unhappy childhood. I take things as they come and stop spending time worrying. I just want to treat the people who love me well and be the best version of myself.
5. Self love
Over the last decade, I have learnt to accept my imperfections and embrace for who I am. There will be people who will not like me, but that’s ok. I have friends and family who love me for who I am.
Practicing self love has allowed me to put myself first and make choices that bring the best of me.
6. Gua Sha
One of the things that greatly attributed to the change of my face shape is by doing Gua Sha. I have been consistently doing Gua Sha for a year and the effects are evident.
There are many meridian points on our face. They each represent a certain organ in our body. Gua Sha is an ancient Chinese technique that involves massaging these meridian points to scrape the toxins off and improve blood circulation. When our blood circulation improves, our overall face will look radiant naturally.
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