Feeling Stressed Young Entrepreneur?

Does Stress Cause Acne?

The old chicken or the egg adage.. Which came first? The Acne or the stress?

Articles all over the internet point to a link between the two, and I have to wholeheartedly agree.

My skin care routine is on point, so is my diet, and so is my lifestyle. I’m a clean freak through and through - that’s another way of saying I’m a purist. I believe in giving myself the best because I want to feel and look my best. I take care of myself... 

However, despite doing everything right, there’s one little factor that creeps in - a factor I haven’t yet learned to control: stress.

I’ve decided to be an entrepreneur. With this exciting and empowering decision a heap of stress, like a ton of bricks, fell on me. The outcome depends entirely on me - an amazing and terrifying thought that keeps me up at night.

Sometimes I can’t even fall asleep until 6 in the morning because my mind refuses to shut off - too many ideas, too many decisions, too much to do!

Not sleeping enough is extremely damaging; it lowers immune function, raises cortisol, makes hormones go crazy, slows down the metabolism, causes overall feelings of lethargy... It just sucks. 

I’ve even learned to embrace the fact that anxiety and excitement are now a way of life - but my skin hasn’t… My skin reacts.

It tells me that I need to relax, that I need to sleep - and because it can’t speak, it uses pimples to communicate… (Such an attention wh***!).

Luckily the pimples are few and far between, but they’re lasting too. Adult Acne is the most ridiculous kind of Acne. You hope to have outgrown it… What? Ten years ago?

Apparently being an adult causes stress, stress causes Acne, Acne causes more stress that causes more Acne... Are you pounding your ahead against a wall yet?

Don't.

At the very least, acne-prone skin forces you to take stock of what you're doing to your body, and to right wrongs… to mind your p’s and q’s, to keep yourself balanced at all times; to take care of yourself. It's forcefully forcing me into finding a real way of dealing with stress.

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