🖋️ The Lioness Journals | August 4, 2025
When I think of the word beautiful, I often imagine the glamorous men and women on the covers of beauty magazines, in television commercials, or part of social media campaigns. They represent what society has deemed to be the expectations and requirements for outer beauty.
But that look and those curated features—the size, shape, height, and weight of the models—they don’t always represent the “norm”. Beauty is not only skin deep—it goes much deeper, into the very heart of our personalities. And that inner beauty is often intertwined with all kinds of misconceptions and limiting beliefs.
Beauty is not defined solely by looks. Beauty is a lovely mixture of exterior presence paired with the inner personal messiness known as our “inner self”. And it’s that “inner self” that deserves the attention today.
When we talk about inner beauty, I am reminded of the phrase my parents always used: “Beauty comes from within.” I was well into adulthood before I finally realized what that phrase really meant, and more importantly, how the concept of inner beauty is riddled with myths and misnomers we randomly accept without question.
We’ve been conditioned to believe that beauty is something we see. But what if it’s something that we feel? What if being beautiful isn’t about achieving a look, or a perfectly applied makeup glow? What if there is more to being beautiful than the surface-level constructs we follow without question today?
Inner beauty is often misunderstood as being passive or only tied to our individual personality traits. But it is so much deeper than that. True beauty—the eye-opening beauty that radiates when a person enters a room—that type of beauty blends both inner and outer beauty, but it starts from within first.
And this is your reminder: Nurturing our inner beauty is not a substitute for self-care—it is an act of self-leadership. It’s not based on vanity, but positioned in the truth that holds for each one of us.
You don’t need to meet someone else’s standard for beauty. You get to define your own.
🔥Personal Check-in:
Your challenge for this week is to reclaim your relationship with the word “beautiful”. Don’t use it in the generic sense, but truly dive into your limiting beliefs around this word. How do you show up as a beautiful person day after day?
We are all beautiful—and our beauty glows from the inside out. Be fully unapologetically you and stop minimizing or dismissing the beautiful traits that make you uniquely you.
Because when we stop apologizing for our uniqueness, our size, our shape, our essence, that’s when we truly step into being an unforgettable force of nature.
Redefine beauty. Protect it. Nurture it. And then let your beauty ROAR from the inside out.
📖 Want More?
When we reclaim what beauty means, we take back control of our own self-confidence. When you allow society’s shallow definitions of beauty to cloud your own worth, that’s when you give away your power.
Instead, redefine what beauty means for you—right now, right here—at this exact moment in your life. Lean into that redefinition and leave behind your limiting beliefs. Rise up and know that you are beautiful and worthy of that recognition.
“Beautiful” is just one of 35 empowering words explored in Roar Like a Woman—words meant to reignite your confidence and reclaim your voice.
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Let the roar rise.
— Ronda 💛