As a television news reporter, I spent years pouring money into maintaining my "look". These were hard costs that got higher as I got older. Then, I invested in learning a lifetime skill instead and everything changed...

Between work, family, household responsibilities, and trying to maintain some semblance of a social life, finding time for self-care can feel like yet another task on your endless to-do list. And that's exactly why I've become passionate about face yoga practices that take just 120 seconds but can make a remarkable difference in how you look and feel.

When I first discovered gua sha, I really did not understand how purposefully stroking my face with a smooth stone could make a noticeable difference in my appearance. But fast forward to today, and I can't imagine my beauty routine without it – it's been that effective.

No beauty product in the world—no matter how expensive or "revolutionary"—can ever match the transformative power of a consistent face yoga practice. This isn't something the beauty industry wants us to believe.

A lot of modern "beauty routines" seem to be rooted in a kind of subtle aggression toward ourselves—scrubbing, stripping, peeling, freezing, burning, injecting. Procedures and products that essentially say, "Your natural state is SOOO not good enough. Let's scrape it off and start over!"

Taking time for ourselves isn't selfish – no matter what that niggling inner voice might be telling you. It's an absolutely necessary aspect of being the best humans we can be.

If you had told me ten year ago that I would be a face yoga instructor, I would probably have choked on my tea and said something like "Face what? Is this a joke?"

For decades, I bought into the beauty industry's biggest lie. It's the one that whispers (and sometimes shouts) that our worth is tied to looking younger. That aging is the enemy. That we should spend countless dollars and hours fighting against the natural flow of time.