Forever Beautiful: Essentials to Your Natural RadianceForever Beautiful: Essentials to Your Natural Radiance
A Quest for Well-Being
Valeria Teles speaks with author and formulator Nadine Artemis about redefining beauty through nature, biological wisdom and gentle oral care. Their conversation weaves together spirituality, trauma, body awareness and practical self-care rooted in the elements.
41:16•6 Jun 2026
Forever Beautiful: Natural Radiance, Oral Care and the Wisdom of the Body
Episode Overview
- Beauty is framed as a living relationship with nature and the elements, rather than products or surface-level appearance.
- Engaging with sun, air, water and earth is described as a foundational way to "revive our being" and support skin and overall wellbeing.
- Nadine stresses the importance of gum health, highlighting that many oral issues stem from neglected gums and harsh conventional products.
- The conversation links trauma and overthinking to a disconnection from the body, suggesting that befriending the body can ease ongoing suffering.
- Wisdom is presented as common sense in action, using simple, nature-based choices instead of complex or synthetic solutions.
“"Beauty is not a thing that is applied. It's a feeling. It's an experience. It's a communion."”
What can we learn from those who have battled addiction? Here, the focus shifts from substances to something many people quietly struggle with: the uneasy relationship with their own body, skin and sense of beauty. Host Valeria Teles chats with author and formulator Nadine Artemis about what it really means to be "forever beautiful" when you strip away synthetic products, cultural conditioning and the constant pressure to fix yourself.
Nadine, founder of Living Libations and author of *Holistic Dental Care* and *Renegade Beauty*, shares how her childhood fascination with mixing scents and spending time in nature eventually grew into a life’s work centred on "caring for our bodies, our beauty, our skin, our teeth" through what she calls biological wisdom.
You’ll hear Nadine describe beauty as "a communion" rather than something you apply, and why she believes "we kind of just need continual replenishment" from the elements – sun, air, water and earth – instead of another bottle of cream. The conversation flows from identity and spirituality to very practical topics like oral care and sun exposure.
Nadine explains why gums need to be treated like "turtlenecks around our teeth", questions harsh conventional mouthwashes, and talks through how modern products can disturb the microbiome and even increase oral problems. Along the way, both women connect beauty, nature and spirit, touching on trauma, living in the mind to escape the body, and the courage it takes to befriend the body again.
Nadine’s simple definition of wisdom as "knowledge that's rooted in common sense" offers a gentle reminder that healing and radiance might be less about perfection and more about working with, rather than against, our own design. If you’re curious about a softer, more nature-led way to care for your body and feel at home in your own skin, could this be the perspective shift you’ve been waiting for?
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