Have you ever been told that acne can’t be “cured”?
You may have heard many dermatologists say that acne cannot be “cured,” but that with all the “effective” conventional treatments out there, it’s possible to experience clearing of your skin as long as you stick to the plan.
However, if those treatments are discontinued, the acne almost always comes back.
That’s because (as you are probably well aware!) conventional treatments to acne aren’t addressing the root cause, and so dermatologists don’t get to witness acne being “cured” with the treatments they prescribe.
They see their patients’ skin clear with treatments like Accutane, topical retinoids, or antibiotics, but once these medications are discontinued, the acne usually comes right back.
If symptoms return, medicine doesn’t see that as a cure.
These medications aren’t able to “cure” acne because they are only suppressing the symptoms.
Acne is a sign of your body’s innate healing response, indicating that your body is trying to adapt to an imbalance and it’s giving you acne as a sign of that imbalance. Once your body has healed from whatever it needed to heal from, those symptoms of healing (i.e. acne) will resolve.
By addressing the true root causes of acne, acne CAN be cleared, for good. Your body doesn’t need acne anymore to heal.
And that sounds like a full healing in my book!
Now let me clarify: we’re not legally allowed to say that anything natural or holistic and not FDA-approved “cures” any conditions.
Yet we know that by treating the root cause and not suppressing acne with medications, the acne will disappear once those causes have been addressed and the body no longer needs acne to heal.
However, sometimes acne can make a reappearance after you’ve cleared it. It may be many months or even years later.
That’s because the healing journey is often spiralic; you keep coming back to similar physical, mental, and emotional themes or patterns in your life. But each time you do so, you’re revisiting these themes as a more consciously evolved, transformed person. This allows you to heal them on a deeper, more complete level.
That means that symptoms like acne may make reappearances over your lifetime to remind you when you’ve strayed off your healing path or you’re living out of alignment with Nature or your Truth.
You might ask, “Why my skin?”
Here’s the thing: Every person has an organ or part of their body that has an affinity to show symptoms whenever they’re imbalanced. Some people get heartburn, or constipation, or frequent colds that go into their chest.
For many of us, that’s our skin. We are “acne-prone”—but that doesn’t mean we’ll be prone to acne forever.
It just means that’s how our body is currently expressing its healing response, and our bodies tend to express healing similarly throughout our lifetimes based on our unique constitutions and what we’re here on this Earth to learn.
After clearing your skin, you may go months without any breakouts. Then when you’re experiencing some major life stress and your body is imbalanced, it’s possible that you may experience another breakout as your body is trying to communicate to you that something is out of balance.
Often it’s the same imbalance that led to acne in the first place, and so your body is reminding you of what needs to be addressed.
Usually any recurrences of acne after you’ve cleared your skin are much more mild, smaller, fewer, and further between. They also tend to heal much more quickly.
Your body typically doesn’t need to give you another big message with a huge breakout; it simply just wants to remind you of how to come back into alignment. Reminding you of how to come back Home to yourself, so that you can feel good, joyful, and healthy in all areas of your life.
Your body knows you’ve already learned the lesson acne was trying to teach you; it’s just trying to remind you to embody it fully at this moment in time.
Yes, acne can be stubborn! But it’s just your body’s way of communicating to you what’s out of balance.
Know and trust that when you’ve addressed this, your acne CAN be gone for good.
