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REVEAL HEALTHY SKIN
B
eing the largest organ in your body, your
skin reveals and impacts your overall health.
When your skin looks healthy and young, it’s likely
that you look and feel healthy, too.
Angela Robertshaw, managing director of Vive Reju-
venation, says that healthy skin starts with preventing damage, by
using sun protection and incorporating vitamin C and antioxidants
into your daily skincare regimen. She recommends a new product
by Vivier Pharma called GrenzCine Serum, an eye cream with
antioxidants and vitamin C that hydrates the skin and stimulates
regeneration in the cells, making it look plumper and younger.
Catherine Lubitz, operations manager at Art of Skin in Canmore,
recommends using mineral sunscreens, such as TiZo, which offersun protection without the risk of ir-
ritation from the chemicals in SPF
sunscreens. The minerals act as tiny
mirrors reflecting UV light off the
skin. Mineral sunscreens also last
longer than chemical creams.
For sun-damaged or aging
skin, both clinics offer treatments
to help restore collagen and di-
minish sunspots. Robertshaw says
some of these types of treatments
take time — both for post-treatment
recovery and to start to see results —
so a little research and preparation is
recommended. “Don’t be afraid to do some
consultations and get a feel for different clinics
to find out what might be the best fit,” she says.
A popular treatment at Vive right now, says Robertshaw,
is the PICO Genesis treatment that reduces redness and sun spots
while simultaneously tightening the skin. The non-thermal treat-
ment uses sound waves, which means no recovery time, making
it easy to work into a busy lifestyle.
Art of Skin, which specializes in medical treatments, offers
a trichloroacetic acid chemical peel, which removes pre-cancerous
cells caused by sun damage, lowering your risk of developing
certain skin cancers, while reducing fine lines and improving
skin texture. “You’re going to see a brand new, brighter complex-
ion,” says Lubitz. —J. F.KNOW YOURSELF
T
here may be as many
different forms of
success as there are
people who want to
be successful.But whether it means nab-
bing that big promotion, nailing
that personal best or staying so-
ber for another day, the path to
success always starts at the same
place — knowing yourself.
“Self-awareness is absolutely
fundamental to betterment
because it’s the only way to
evaluate your actions and hold
yourself accountable,” says Mark
Tewksbury, Olympic gold med-
alist and co-founder of Great
Traits, a corporate training and
development company.
Tewksbury’s own idea of suc-
cess has changed over the years,
from swimming his way to gold,
silver and bronze medals in
Olympic games, to advocating
for gay rights, to becoming an
entrepreneur and a sought-after
speaker. “There are basic things
that are part of the formula for
success, such as being able toset a goal and write it down,
but all of that is dependent on
knowing what you want,” says
Tewksbury. “And that requires
self-reflection and holding
yourself accountable to getting
there which, again, requires
self-awareness.”
This whole getting-to-
know-thyself thing can take
a little work. We can be dis-
tracted by access to endless
information, billions of dollars
of marketing in our faces on
any given day and what our
friends are doing on Facebook
and Instagram. While those
highly curated and perfectly
art-directed social media posts
may motivate some of us to
define what success looks like
— power lunches in a power
suit at the power job — they
can pollute other people’s
quest for what they really want(say, making artisanal mouse-
traps in the garage). “We live
in such an intense reactionary
period in history that it’s really
difficult to just map out time
to reflect on what you’re do-
ing,” says Tewksbury.
Once you define what suc-
cess looks like for you, give
yourself a reasonable schedule
to get there. Some goals are
short-term, such as cleaning
out the spare room to turn
it into a home office. Others,
such as building a business,
take more time. “Maybe you’re
looking four years ahead, and
the place to start over the next
six months is keeping your job
and taking a night class to start
to build skills,” says Tewksbury.
Regardless, the first step to
success is walking up to the
mirror and taking a good, long,
hard look. —J.A.