This month I’d like to switch things up and take a slightly different approach for September. As you know, I usually enjoy providing fun facts about historical and contemporary aesthetic science and practices. But, every now and then, I find it can be inspiring to share a real human story — to relate how Medical Spa technologies can positively affect a person’s life.
While many people think a “Medical Spa” is a space for superficial people, or for desperate souls clinging to an unrealistic concept of youth or beauty, I invite you to consider that it can be a compassionate place for healing, and for building self confidence and awareness.
Obviously many people enter the doors seeking aesthetic adjustments or improvements, but there are far deeper, personal and psychological factors that come into play with every subsequent decision.
Some of you might have reached the age where you can no longer remember the insecurities of youth, yet almost all of us have struggled through early adulthood with questions and doubts about whether or not we “fit in.” Cultural and societal influences can blur our self image and leave us unbalanced. Even if we master the art of outward facing confidence, there is still that subtle, nagging sense that somehow (be it physical, intellectual, or personal), we don’t quite measure up. This is particularly true for women, subjected, as we are, to a constant firehose of images and instructions on how we need to strive to attain very specific aesthetic standards.
In mid-life, just when we reach a level of self acceptance, just when we might even embrace our unique version of imperfect beauty, we discover that it is swiftly morphing away from us!
Now, suddenly, we have to learn how to accept our “aging looks.”
Add to that the fact that humanity, as a whole, has realized that we’re not ready for the scrapheap at the age of forty five — that not only do we live longer, we aspire to make those longer years as vibrant as possible — and you have a real disconnect.
This psychological schism between how we feel about ourselves, and the image we see looking back at us in the mirror can be very disturbing, for some more than others.
Surgery is one direction people take, but a MedSpa is the place to go for a subtle restoration of the version of you that resonates with your internal perception of yourself.
For example, my client (I’ll call her Sue), who recently underwent Sculptra treatments, had “noticed volume loss and sagging” in her face, and wanted to see if it was possible to find “a refreshed look without appearing overfilled.” The Sculptra helped: “The treatments made my face look subtly fuller, smoother, and more youthful, but the change happened gradually, so I still looked completely like myself — just more rested!”
Sue still looks like Sue, but she had regained confidence levels that she didn’t even realize had slipped away. I’ve heard this time and again. Even when clients think they are coming to me because of vanity, they end up celebrating their self confidence, and a renewed alignment with their self identity. The shift can be profound, even life-changing.
And I celebrate with them every time.
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