As Christians we can talk like beauty is a bad thing, but here's why I think that's wrong

Founder of a skincare range, Emiko Ray, shares her journey in understanding that beauty isn’t just skin deep.

From a very young age, I was conscious that I didn’t think or relate like other girls did. Turbulent primary school years were followed by anxiety and phobias in my teenage years. All of this led me to a pretty unhappy place. To compound the issue, my mother is Japanese, and although I totally love that, I was aware of the difference in my heritage and upbringing. 

My instinctive response was to study and research to try to discover my identity and I have spent many years studying women and how we work, in an attempt to better understand myself. One of my light bulb moments came when I was recently diagnosed with ASD (Aspergers) in my 40s and came to understand how my brain works. This also explains the intense studying as that is a trait of the neuro-diverse brain: to try to bring order to chaos.