#181: SEEING MORE BEAUTY

SEEING MORE BEAUTY EPISODE #181 In this week’s episode of Confidence on the Go we’re chatting about: * How we are surrounded by beauty – in ourselves and around us – and how to train your mind and your eye to see and savor more of it than you currently are * 7 simple ways to live more beautifully, every day, starting with today. * How to change how you see your own beauty – exchanging the warped, circus mirror for the real mirror. Just a quick hello to all of my Keep the Faith listeners out there – thanks for being part of the community of contagious encouragement. SPONSORSHIP NOTE: I am proud to be an educator and consultant for Beautycounter, a B-Corp company on a mission to get safer products into the hands of everyone.   The lack of regulation in the personal care and cosmetic industry is astounding and it is harming our health in very serious ways. We need more voices to join up on our mission. If you want to put your passion to purpose while being generously compensated, then I would love to start a conversation with you about what it means to be involved in the #saferbeauty tribe that is Beautycounter. Join the movement of #betterbeauty and message me via email to make your voice really resonate for a cause.  Shop Beautycounter and learn more at www.beautycounter.com/trishblackwell QUOTES ON BEAUTY: Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. –Confucius The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. –Audrey Hepburn The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. –Francis Bacon A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. –Anne Roiphe Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson THOUGHTS ON BEAUTY: The moon shone, painted with the lipstick of the sun’s goodnight kiss. Full, it glowed with a lustrous halo of canary yellow that extended its full circle even more majestically in the navy blue sky.   Clouds that appeared like illustrations from a children's book stretched themselves out poetically, dancing around the radiant light of the moon. Making the scene even more magical, ocean waves crashed methodically and melodically on the shell-covered sand where I stood frozen, toes in the sand, entranced by the resplendence. As my eyes drank this beauty into my soul, my ears absorbed shouts of glee that felt like little pinches, proving to me that this wasn’t a dream, but in fact reality.   The seagulls balked and made circles above my head as my husband and one-year-old daughter chased them with our puppy in the sand. My daughter’s pigtails waved in the wind as they jumped, swirled and chased these sea birds, her arms thrust into the air in full belief that she could either join them in flying or that she would succeed in catching one. The beauty of life is hidden in the small moments. The art of slowing down to find gratitude is the key to unlock more moments and more beauty. I am obsessed with beauty. Maybe not the beauty you assume I talking about but beauty nonetheless. The beauty I am pursuing has changed because I needed it to change. I needed to have beauty in my soul, but I looked in the wrong place first. I thought that the beauty I craved was an unattainable beauty in myself, and that if I reached that fake standard of beauty that I would then feel beautiful and would then be able to see the world around me as beautiful as we...