The Inside Out Philosophy

My mission is to empower women to love themselves and their bodies so that together we can empower the next generation of women to do the same.

Every day I meet women who make their self-love conditional. I will love myself when I have the body I want. I will love myself when I have the ideal relationship. I will love myself when I have more money. I will love myself when I’m successful. I will love myself when I achieve this next thing. But even when they attain all those things, they realize that the void is still there. They still don’t love themselves. And so they move on to the next achievement, the next box to check, still thinking they’re not doing enough, making enough, having enough…thinking they’re just not enough.

If what you’ve tried hasn’t given you the results you want, there’s a deeper problem that needs to be solved.

That deeper problem often comes from things like our parents and their own issues that they pass down to us, our culture and what it considers desirable, our sense of our own value and worth, traumas, stress…so many things. My work revolves around helping women identify those deeper issues and overcome them so they can feel and function their best and live their best lives.

The journey towards self-love begins with self-care. Self-care is that which helps us feel and function our best. It’s things like adequate sleep, nourishing our bodies, moving our bodies, drinking enough water, mindfulness, setting healthy boundaries, advocating for our needs, taking breaks, spending time with people who lift us up, and doing things that fill our cups. Where so many women get tripped up is they believe that in order to practice self-care (which are ways of showing love to yourself), they must first feel like they love themselves or deserve that self care.

The Inside Out Philosophy turns that belief upside down. It’s not helpful to wait for feelings to emerge before you take action. Feelings are fleeting, and if you’re waiting for them to show up, you’ll be waiting a long time. Instead of waiting to feel like you love yourself or you deserve self-care, start practicing it anyway and notice how the simple acts of love every day naturally grow into a feeling.

We must first take action, then the feeling will follow.

Self-love is a journey, not an end state. It is a conscious decision that you make every single day. It’s choosing to do what serves your best interests over what feels good right now, and it’s essential to begin with action. Self-love doesn’t mean complacency - it means living your values and giving yourself permission to evolve into the best version of yourself. And when you approach your goals from a place of love, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

At Inside Out Transformations, I envision a world where women lift each other up, support each other, are unapologetically themselves, are not afraid to set boundaries…a world where women empower themselves with self-care and live their lives with love for themselves and the women around them. I envision a world where we break the generational cycle of body-shaming and limiting beliefs. I envision a world where we all believe we are good enough as we are AND strive to be our best selves. I am on a mission to help ONE MILLION women achieve this. Will you be one of them?

— Sarah Mayland, MS