Melasma Unmasked

Your Melasma Unmasked Recording
is available below (in 3 parts)

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🕑 00-2:00 — What This Workshop Is About

  • Overview of what will be covered:

    • Emotional roots of hyperpigmentation (melasma, liver spots, moles, etc.)

    • Face mapping across lineages

    • Natural tools like facial reflexology and diet

    • Simple reflexology protocol

🕑2:00– 5:00— Intro to Emotional Root Causes

  • Every physical issue has a potential emotional root

  • Chronic hyperpigmentation often tied to overwhelm, stress, and layered emotions

  • Encouragement for those feeling discouraged or self-conscious

  • The goal is to get to the message from within and tend to the emotional body

🕑5:00— Workshop Starting Exercise

🕑 5:30 - 10:30  — What is Melasma Really Telling Us?

  • The connection between overwhelm and melasma

  • Melasma often associated with hormonal changes i.e. pregnancy

  • Layers of diet, beliefs, and stress also contribute

  • “Spiritual curriculum”: difficult relationships as emotional triggers

  • Emotional triggers often linked to family, shame, fear, and hurt

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) & Emotional Links

  • Questions traditional idea that melasma is purely genetic (ex: redheads, freckles)

  • Introduces Louise Hay you can heal your life and Joman Romero Knowing ourselves as resources for emotional-physical links

🕐 00:00- 1:17 — Continued Final Face Map (Upper Right Corner Map)

  • Bridge of nose upward: possible pancreas or colon involvement.

  • Face reveals organ and emotional imbalances (e.g., facial scars reflecting internal conditions).

🕐 1:20 — Question & Answer portion of the workshop

  • Q: Can you go over upper lip?

    • A: Upper lip = stomach (e.g., cold sores on upper lip = treat with L-lysine).

    • Lower lip = intestines (L-lysine ineffective here; consider IV ozone).

    • Above upper lip = transverse colon.

  • Q: Can you touch on hypopigmentation, scars, skin tags, moles

    • A: Reflexology protocol: press or scribble in a 6-pointed star pattern across spot daily (20 sec).

    • Moles/skin tags: circle around or press directly for 20 sec/day to encourage release (3–5 weeks).

  • Blood = nutrient // Lymph = waste removal.

  • Emotional link: fear of abandonment/outcast energy (vitiligo root).

  • Q: Interested in the emotional underpinning of melasma right above left eyebrow.

    • A: Combination of gallbladder (resentment, unspoken anger) and descending colon (letting go).

    • Resentment from overgiving and not being met—encouragement to choose mutually nourishing relationships.

  • Q: When we did the reflexology exercise, what were they for?

  1. Liver (between brows) – anger + all skin conditions.

  2. Around eyes – ovaries and breasts (hormonal balance).

  3. Tip of nose – heart (belief, trust in healing).

  4. Chin – sex organs (creativity, fear, trauma).

🕐 10:36 — Q: Is that the exercise I should do every day or look at where the pigmentation is on the face?

  • A: If time allows: do both protocol + specific spot work.

  • If limited with time: prioritize the main reflexology protocol.

Books:

  • You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

  • Knowing Ourselves by Joman Romero

Tools (linked):

🕑 10:38 - 14:00  — Hormones, Liver & Skin Messaging

  • Pregnancy, postpartum, stress → liver stagnation

  • Liver is key in nearly every skin concern

  • Liver zone on face = between brows and represents anger and unresolved upset

  • The skin as a message board for everything going on inside of us

  • Physical expressions (melasma, pimples, skin tags, etc.) reflect inner emotional state

  • Limitations of Conventional Treatments

  • Lasers, microneedling, peels don’t address emotional or liver-level roots

  • Surface treatments = temporary fix

  • Cautions about laser side effects and seasonal timing (fall/winter safer)

  • Importance of personalized care and informed practitioners


🕑 14:14- 16:40— Liver Support Tools

  • Liver supplements: milk thistle, dandelion root, nettles

  • Nettle = immune-boosting, mineral-rich, helps hair and skin regeneration

  • Where to buy: Mountain Rose Herbs recommended for potency

🕑 16:50 —22:50 Face Mapping (1st Map: Dien Chan)

  • Dien Chan lineage introduced (Vietnamese facial reflexology)

  • Walkthrough of facemap with labeled organs

🕐 10:00 - 14:00 — Dietary Tip for Melasma

  • Encourages cutting out seed oils and other harmful oils (canola, grapeseed, safflower, sunflower) are inflammatory and sun-reactive.

  • Coconut oil can be too detoxifying for some—linked to blood type compatibility

  • Common myth: sun is the main cause of melasma—often it's seed oils inside the body.

  • Encouragement to track how skin responds to oils and sun over time.

🕐 14:09 - 16:36 — Reflexology Protocol Demonstration

  • Simple reflexology for melasma/hormone balance:

    1. Liver – Between brows (5 circles)

    2. Ovaries/Breasts – Around eyes (5 circles each side)

    3. Heart – Tip of the nose

    4. Hormonal balance – Chin (5 circles + press & hold)

  • Encouragement to breathe and soften during this ritual.

🕐 16:47 - 19:52 — Nervous System Regulation

  • Skin won’t heal if the nervous system stays in fight-or-flight.

  • Loving kindness practices: Ho’oponopono prayer, self-love affirmations, mirror work.

  • Emotional Healing & Self-Worth

  • Reminder: healing requires releasing dependency on external validation.

  • Anchoring in the affirmation: “I am enough.”

🕐 20:00 - 21:44 — Final Face Map (Upper Right Corner Map)

    • Intestines around the mouth

    • Kidneys at corners of the mouth

    • Pancreas over/under nose

    • Stomach = brown boomerang shape

    • Liver = green area on one side of nose

    • Gallbladder = small green mark above tip of nose

    • Heart = central nose area (differs from other maps)

🕐 11:12 — Q : Is the emotional reason for the small intestine in the forehead the same as colon?

  • A: Small intestine = subtext, detail, legacy wisdom ("grandmother energy").

  • Colon = release, letting go, more current emotional processing

🕐 12:20 — Q: Can we resolve a lot of problems by reflexology on our feet as well as our face?

  • A: Face is faster-acting due to proximity to heart + identity.

  • Skin issues often show up on the face first for quick attention.

  • Facial changes often reflect urgent health signals before lower-body areas.

🕐 14:52— Q: Red Dots, Broken Capillaries

  • A: Often tied to hormones or anger bursts.

  • Press or circle around daily (20 sec) and track with before/after photos.

  • Reinforces need to move stagnation with consistent, loving touch.

  • Use the simplified map (the one with the girl + key at bottom) to see which organ each point/dot is

  • Pinpoint organ connection based on the location of red dots, tags, or pigment.

🕐 18:36 – Cooking Oils

  • Cold-pressed, organic sesame oil is okay (Ayurvedic-approved).

  • Issue lies with processed seed oils: safflower, sunflower, canola, grapeseed.

🕐 19:16 – Q: What could be going on in my body that would create red blotches under armpit?

  • A: Emotionally linked to anger (think punching/swinging gestures).

  • Can be treated using pressure tool (not finger) daily with breathwork.

🕐 20:10– Tip of Nose Reflexology Clarification

  • Press just the top of the tip for reflexology.

  • Underside of nose = separate cooling point (for rosacea, hot flashes, excess fire).

🕐 21:00 – Closing Breath Practice

  • Two long cleansing breaths: inhale what you’re ready to release, exhale it out.

  • Invitation to clear from tissues, mind, emotional body, and bones.

00:00 - 6:42 —Personal shares from attendees to share emotional connections

  • Personal shares from attendees to share emotional connections

  • Emotional meaning of forehead (colon) = letting go

    • Holding emotions, breath, or identity → skin stagnation

    • Can show up as constipation, melanoma, little pimples/bumps, hyperpigmentation..

  • Breathwork + digestive enzymes (e.g., papaya) recommended

  • Colon mirrors emotional digestion:

    • Bringing things up → sifting through → releasing

  • Constipation = fear of letting go of old versions of self

  • Forehead breakouts = dietary reaction or dehydration

  • Emphasizes hydration with minerals, not just water

  • Upper cheeks = intestines = emotional & energetic discernment

    • Over-processing can create stagnation in this zone

    • Intestines = what to keep vs. what to let go

  • Encouragement to simplify, delegate, and stop seeking sweetness externally

  • Emotions = “energy in motion” (E-motion).

  • Gentle massage can move stagnant emotional energy into spleen (joy).

  • Movement is a reclaiming of choice and agency in emotional states.

🕐 6:50 - 10:05 — Lower Cheeks (Lungs) & Grief

  • Lower cheeks = lungs = grief.

  • Sagging or drooping here may signal unprocessed grief.

  • Gentle facial massage example to validate and release what’s coming up

  • Emphasis on full exhales to clear stored emotional grief.

  • Tip: Releasing Emotion with Voice Memos

    • Record voice memos expressing difficult emotions (don’t send them), then delete.

    • This clears emotional tension from tissues and nervous system in real-time.

Additional resources discussed from our call…

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