Skin & Soul: Healing from the Inside Out
Dr. Jeanne Retief
- Organisation:
- FIGGI Beauty & Soul
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: Please see full fee guide here: https://bit.ly/4mHMTCl
- Category:
- Life Skills
- Updated:
- 6th June 2025
- Tagged:
- Mind-Body Connection | Sensitive | Stress Mindfulness | Holistic Health
How emotional overwhelm shows up in the body — and why real care means healing inside-out.
What if your skin isn’t just reacting to the outside world — but to everything you’re holding inside?
In this eye-opening talk, Dr. Jeanne Retief explores the intimate connection between emotional trauma, anxiety, and the skin. Diagnosed with panic disorder during a high-pressure legal career, Jeanne began noticing how her skin mirrored her nervous system — hypersensitive, inflamed, and overwhelmed. It wasn’t vanity. It was survival.
Blending science with soul, Jeanne unpacks the biology behind stress and skin responses, and why truly sensitive skin often signals deeper internal chaos. She challenges the superficial fixes of the beauty industry and offers a radical reframe: skincare as self-care only works when it honors the emotional body too.
Audiences leave with a deeper understanding of how trauma lives in the body — and how to begin the real work of soothing it.
“Your skin is talking. It’s time we learned to listen with compassion, not control.”
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"This is not a performance — it’s a presence. Life can be raw, but there is beauty in the breaking. Coming apart at the seams was a brutal kind of cleansing — I had to ember down into the ashes of my rock-bottom before I could rise anew." — Dr. Jeanne Retief
Dr. Jeanne Retief is a speaker, mental health advocate, and founder of FIGGI Soul. She offers a wide range of keynotes rooted in anxiety support, trauma recovery, and authentic self-care. Full speaking portfolio: https://bit.ly/4knsfWh
Dr. Jeanne blends lived experience and soulful insight to speak on the raw beauty of being human. After a 15-year career in international human rights law — and a life-altering diagnosis of panic disorder — she founded FIGGI Beauty & Soul, a sanctuary for conscious skincare and emotional healing. She now speaks globally on the realities of anxiety, trauma, the myths of self-help, and the profound power of showing up exactly as you are.
For Jeanne’s full media kit, talk descriptions, pricing, and past appearances, visit: https://bit.ly/4knsfWh
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