From Self-Hatred to Self-Love Through Meditation & Movement | Melissa Wood-Tepperberg EP 842

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation show.

0:12I had horrifying cystic pimples all over my face, my neck, down my back. And I did everything. It was like I saw every dermatologist. I did Accutane. It was just, it was awful. And now I realize, like, that was how I internalized my anxiety for so many years. It was coming out in my skin. It was the stress. It's it with a combination of products I was using and food for sure. And I meant, but it was my nervous system. I was trying to, to wait to like, you know, bang on my door. And I just felt like, you know, I, I, I've got to go in here. Like I have, I've got to like almost. Cause I think when you are so dysregulated, You don't even know what home and safety is.

1:03So there was just this feeling that I felt I needed to, I needed to take all of that and come in here. Wow. So you started meditating. I started meditating. I've meditated every day since. Wow. And that's how I'm here. And I can tell you that for a fact. I know that with everything inside of me because it was the thing that helped me see myself for the first time for like who I really was and not any persona or facade that I had put on. And I was really interested in wellness, but because my relationship with myself was still so dysfunctional. it was the thing that helped me look in the mirror and like find so much like deep love like true love for for me and for my skin and loving myself through my acne and not being at my happy weight and it just helped me it was like almost like just like defogging the lens and everything got like a little bit brighter wow how much on a scale of one to ten before this what was your self-love scale 10 being like you really loved yourself from an authentic conscious place one being you hated yourself like where were you on that i was probably like a three four really work that i was doing from like a from like a one two so like i was and and that set doesn't sound like progress but it is yeah and i think that's the thing that i you really You hated yourself before that.

2:42I hated myself because of my actions. Yeah. I wasn't proud. You were out of like alignment with yourself. Complete. Completely disaligned. And when you can, you know, I was, it was very much focused on the physical. and then once I realized that I could regulate from bringing some calm to my mind even just a little bit wow then I started moving differently and this is when I started understanding like no wonder why like I don't like those classes are not working for me because they make me feel really stressed out and anxious and they bring out all that stuff that I'm like really working towards shifting.

3:31And then I started blending elements of Pilates and yoga. And it was like, I was just weaving these things together, but it felt like this like inner dance with myself, but it felt good. And I was not punishing myself for what I ate anymore. And I was just literally in flow. Like it brought me in this flow state. And at this time I didn't even have 10 ,000 followers on Instagram, but I just felt this like it was like, I have no idea how, what, where, like what you're going to do, but like you have to share this and you have to share this because you have to come back to that seven-year-old little girl who was looking outside the window when your dad drove away, when my parents separated.

4:20And I felt like this is it. Like this is unfortunately, like this is the card that I've been dealt and this is my life. And I think so many people who come from broken situations or even bad marriages feel like this is it. And it's not it. And you can change the course of your life at any point. Every moment is an opportunity to begin again, to do something different. than you did the day before. That just helps you feel so deeply connected to yourself. And, you know, I talk a lot about meditation and movement, and that is how I created a platform. But as I'm at this point in my life today, it's from being so connected to whatever it is you connect to.

5:21But to me, it's the creator. It's this higher power so much greater than me. And like when I close my eyes and I meditate and I go in and I like bring the energy to my heart, it's what it's like I feel so surrounded and so safe and just reminded that like I am being divinely guided and we all are.

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