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The Mind and Skin Connection

This is How Your Skin Reacts to Stress

• You release hormones that encourage inflammation and decrease blood flow to the skin.
• The nerves in the skin become irritated, and may increase inflammation or stimulate allergic reactions.
• Skin recruits the immune system to fight, which can cause inflammation.
• Rosacea, acne, and psoriasis flare-up.
• There might be damage to your skin’s outer layer, resulting in dull, dry skin.
• Production of moisturizing and plumping lipids declines.
• Skin healing, repair, and restoration is delayed.

You’ve heard that stress is bad for your heart and your health overall. Now we know that it can also wreak havoc on your skin. If you’ve suspected that you break out when you’re stressed, you’re probably right!

What is Psychodermatology? How Does it Affect Your Skin?

How to Balance Your Emotions and Treat Stressed Skin

The key is to do your best to balance both your emotions/stress, spiritual skincare, and your skin routine. Here are the tips that may help:

1. May Cause Skin Problems

When we get stressed, the body releases hormones that can compel us to eat unhealthy stuff. Fast foods and high-sugar foods are both bad for your skin, and will further deplete its defenses against stress-induced changes. We all slip now and then, but try to stick to your healthy diet even during stressful times.

2. Get Into Relaxation

3. Always Have Special Routine Prepared

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We all go through stressful times. A death in the family, a move, the loss of a job, a promotion, an illness, and financial strain can all derail our usual healthy lifestyles.

Try to create an “I’m stressed” routine that you adopt when things get tough. Think of it like a rescue routine—when you do a little extra for yourself to keep your defenses strong. This routine could include:

• Becoming militant about bedtime (because it’s SO important, particularly when you’re stressed).
• Adding some supportive supplements to your diet for a few weeks, like magnesium, a vitamin B complex, omega-3 fatty acids (great for skin!), vitamin C, lemon balm, and chamomile.
• Scheduling regular relaxation times for yourself, where you get a massage or facial, enjoy a hot bath, take a relaxing walk, or spend time with a pet.
• Cutting out at least one “to-do” from your list, so you can ease up on yourself and give your body the time it needs to recover.

Spiritual Reasons for Skin Problems: How Your Skin React to Your Emotions

Do your cheeks get red when you feel embarrassed? If so, you know what it feels like to have your emotions affect your skin.

But blushing is just the tip of the iceberg. There are a number of spiritual reasons for skin problems out there that you need to know.

Turns out there’s a strong connection between mind and skin, and we’re just starting to figure it out. Early research indicates that how we feel can affect how our skin looks and acts, and may even factor into what sort of skin conditions we may suffer from.

It’s all very individual, though. While your stress may show up in breakouts, your friend may suffer a rosacea flare-up instead. A third person may break out in hives.

How might your emotions affect your skin—and is there anything you can do about it?

What is eczema, anyway?

Let’s be honest – eczema is expensive, painful and embarrassing. I’m currently healing from a breakout under my arms. To my partner’s amusement, whenever I scratch myself, I look like a monkey (funnily, that’s my sign in Chinese Astrology). It’s hard to focus on the serious side of psychic readings when you can barely sit still. Thank goodness I meditate.

Eczema is a humbling reminder to stay present and in your body. To love yourself unconditionally, especially your sensitivity and sensuality – need for loving touch.

Like many healers, I believe that all illness has a physical and spiritual cause. There are books by Louise Hay and Inna Segal about this connection. Also look up Lise Bourbeau and read this post on eczema, psoriasis and irritation by the radical healer which I found online.

I feel that eczema arises when you’re ‘letting people get under your skin’ and trying to avoid your truth – that you’re a sensitive, intuitive being.

The Spiritual Meaning of Eczema – Do People Get Under Your Skin?

What is the spiritual meaning of eczema and skin rashes like dermatitis or psoriasis? This article has ideas based on my experience. As it is not medical advice, I urge you to work with your intuition and healers to find your own solutions. This post was lasted updated in August 2022.

Do you have sensitive skin? Me too! The joys of being a highly sensitive person. Within weeks of birth, I had full body eczema and it’s come and gone since then. Being itchy is something I’ve had to make peace with.

Update: See my Develop Your Intuition webinar for tips on healing your self-trust and reducing your inner critic, plus psychic protection exercises and meditations. Essential if you have Silk/ psychic skin or identify as an empath. I am also being treated for undermethylation (e.g. with zinc picolinate supplements), which has helped my skin and moods a lot.

My eczema is minimal, now that I have a joyful job with great clients, drink high quality water, eat mainly organic, don’t have gluten or dairy and express my words through blogs, videos and my Patreon study group! I am much more comfortable with my sexuality (I love bellydancing!) and appearance, and allow myself to be ‘seen’ in a way that is positive, not just painful. An autism diagnosis in 2021 also helped me to stop comparing myself to others.