Beauty and Becoming
Beauty and Becoming is a sanctuary for women who are ready to stop fixing themselves and start meeting themselves.
Hosted by Coco — licensed esthetician, Reiki practitioner, certified Ayurvedic health instructor, and intuitive catalyst with over twenty years in the beauty industry — this show explores beauty not as something to apply or correct, but as something to remember. Something that has always lived within you, waiting to be revealed.
Each episode is an invitation to come home — to your body, to the essence of your unique beauty, and to the wholeness that was never actually missing.
We talk about holistic self-care as a devotional practice, beauty as a threshold to the Divine, and the real, honest, sometimes messy process of becoming who you actually are.
Beauty isn't something we apply. It's something we awaken.
New episodes every week. Come as you are.
Beauty and Becoming
114. When Insecurity Becomes a Doorway to Self-Love
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I thought I wanted to be prettier... what I really needed was to be cared for.
If you listened to last week's episode, or have been following me on Instagram @beautyandbecomingwithcoco, you will know that I have been talking a lot about insecurity lately…
Putting myself vulnerably front and center to share my own challenges with the reflection I see in the mirror… especially as someone with a podcast that has Beauty in the name and has been in the industry for decades....
But what if insecurity is another word for pain?
And what if, sometimes, that pain becomes the thing that finally gets our attention?
This episode is a reflection on:
- How insecurity can be understood as emotional pain
- The ways our Soul tries to get our attention through our human experiences
- Choosing compassion over shame for the versions of ourselves who were simply trying to find relief, and honoring the winding ways we arrive at self-care
Maybe the thing you’ve been judging yourself for is actually trying to show you where you need more love.
Maybe your insecurity isn’t the enemy...
Maybe it’s a messenger...
Maybe it is the doorway, which doesn’t have to feel glamorous in order to be transformative on the other side.
Resources Mentioned:
Danielle Paige:
https://daniellepaige.com/
IG | @iamdaniellepaige
Podcast Episodes Mentioned:
112. Self-Care with the Seasons: The Energy of August Asks... Now What? You Get to Decide, Queen | With Carly Whorton | https://www.buzzsprout.com/2393333/episodes/19601253
102. Taking an X-Ray of Your Life: Where Are You Gaslighting Yourself? | https://www.buzzsprout.com/2393333/episodes/19373683
98. The True Cost of Beauty: My Year Without Botox | https://www.buzzsprout.com/2393333/episodes/19246891
74. My 2025 Lowlights, the Womb of Winter, and this One Year of the Fire Horse | https://www.buzzsprout.com/2393333/episodes/18473140
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Keywords: self-care, self-love, insecurity, beauty, personal growth, Soul, Higher Self, therapy
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xxo, Coco