PODCAST: Is My Acne Hormonal?

By THE HOLISTIC SKIN DETECTIVE

The imbalances showing up on your skin are not surface-level problems.

They are signals. Invitations. Messages from your body.


To slow down. To listen more closely

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To look deeper - at the ways we live, consume, relate, and respond to the world around us.

Because the skin doesn’t lie.


It tells the truth - even when we aren’t ready to hear it.

It tells me:
The frustration you haven’t expressed.
The grief you’ve buried.
The foods your body’s reacting to - even when they’re “clean.”
The air you’re breathing. The pace you’re moving at.
The strain of modern life, showing up in texture, breakouts, redness, and reactivity.

Your skin is not a cosmetic issue.

It’s part of a larger conversation - one that includes your nervous system, your hormones, your digestion, your relationships, your home, your land.

And this podcast is where we have that conversation.

I speak to what most won’t:

  • The quiet rise in skin imbalances and what they’re pointing to

  • Why “hormonal” has become a catch-all label that misses the real story

  • How the body speaks through the skin - and why we struggle to understand it

  • How our environments, choices, chemicals, stress, and pace of life are reflected in our health

  • What it means to return to self-responsibility - not as blame, but as reconnection

These are not beauty industry conversations.

They are regenerative ones.

Because my work - and this podcast - is rooted in lived practice.

I’ve spent over two decades as a hands-on natural skin and spa therapist... but that was only the beginning.

In my search to understand what truly heals persistent skin imbalances - from breakouts and inflammation to deeper systemic patterns - I’ve studied, practiced, and integrated a range of modalities into my approach, each offering a piece of the puzzle:

  • The mind–body connection, including emotional mapping and how unprocessed experiences show up through the skin

  • Herbalism, energetics, and traditional earth-based medicine systems that view the skin as an expression of internal balance

  • Soil regeneration and sustainable living, recognising that the health of our external environments mirrors our own

  • Conflict resolution, nervous system repair, and the transmutation of inherited belief systems — because skin often reflects tension we don’t yet have words for

  • Food as medicine, and skin care crafted from the land — respecting the ancient rhythms of nourishment, ritual, and cellular repair

Each of these lenses has helped me understand what skin is truly responding to — and why standard treatments so often fall short.

I’ve spent thousands of hours - and dollars - learning from pioneers, elders, and keepers of wisdom.

Because healing isn’t one-size-fits-all.


It’s layered. It’s personal. And like the Earth, your body is calling for realignment.

When we stop trying to fix the skin - and start listening to what it’s telling us - everything changes.


Not just our breakouts, but our lives.

This podcast and the KD-SI framework is where we begin that remembering.


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Your skin is always sending you clues. When you learn how to read them, you can not only resolve skin issues but also enjoy greater health and vitality - K.D x