
12/08/2025
You tell 'Em, Dr Tommy! 🥹🫶🥰
We all internalise so many damaging ideas around worthiness, beauty standards and shame,
A subconscious programming that makes us pick oursleves and others apart based on how we look.
When you decide to make critical and unsolicited commentary on someone's appearance, you are really just reflecting those sh*tty rules and lies you've been taught,
The ones that say you have to look a certain way to be loveable, attractive or worthy.
You don't.
When people say such things it can hurt, usually because we are still trying to unlearn those beliefs too,
and a part if us still feels like we aren't enough,
But really those unkind words are only a reflection of what they've been taught or wounded with,
not of you at all.
Don't dump your shame and judgment on other people,
Just Learn to release it,
and realise noone has to look or dress a set way to be worthy of love, kindness or basic respect. 🫶
~Vanessa Rosé-lia 🌹✨
In response to the “what people think those born in 1992 look like”
I’ve had offers to fix my hairline for free….. and even get paid to do it. I could easily afford it myself. But I’ve chosen not to.
Why?
For a long time, I was self-conscious about my hairline. I even had a long, honest conversation with my beautiful wife about it and even discussed with close friends who have had hair transplants. Eventually, I realized something important: I didn’t dislike my hairline because of me……I disliked it because I was trying to live up to the world’s “standard” of what a man should look like.
That moment pulled me back to my core. It reminded me of the work I’ve done to love myself for who I am…… not just what I see in the mirror. It’s the same battle I’ve been fighting since overcoming childhood obesity: to stop letting my value be defined by appearance.
So here’s where I stand and why I choose not to “fix it”
Because beauty is fleeting.
Because my time, energy, and resources are better spent elsewhere.
Because my journey is about self-love, not self-editing to appease the world
Because I refuse to chase the world’s shifting standards of beauty.
This isn’t about judging anyone who makes a different choice your body, your decision. For me, it’s about standing in the truth that my worth is not tied to my hair, my face, or anyone else’s approval.
Self-love isn’t about perfecting what you see…..it’s about accepting it. And I’m not trading that for anything.