There’s a moment in every breakup — long after the crying, long after the blocking, long after the speech you only gave in your head — when your body still hasn’t caught up. You’ve processed it logically. You’ve journaled. You’ve talked it to death with friends. Okay, you've even cleansed and moisturized through it all.
And yet, you still feel stuck. It's that hollow feeling in your stomach. It lingers in your chest. Then moves through your shoulders. In your shoulders. And in your skin. The heartbreak just stings.
You can’t think your way out of heartbreak. You have to sweat it out.
The body keeps the ecore. Literally. When we experience emotional pain — grief, rejection, abandonment — our body feels it. But it also stores it.
According to trauma therapist Bessel van der Kolk, “the body keeps the score” — meaning that unprocessed emotions aren’t just psychological, they’re physiological. Cortisol builds. Muscles tense. Blood vessels constrict. The immune system weakens. And your skin? It responds with inflammation, dullness and breakouts.
Your heartbreak doesn't just sit in your heart. It's now metaphorically in your cells.
Sweating might actually help you in this case. It's one of the body's primary release mechanisms — and not just for toxins, but for emotional residue.
When you move your body, increase circulation and induce heat, you’re not just “working out” — you’re stimulating lymphatic flow, supporting your skin’s natural detox system and most importantly, letting the body process what the mind has been avoiding.
Some simple activities include: cardio, dance, hot yoga, infrared sauna or a brisk walk with sad girl music and vengeance in your hips. It all counts.
The stress cleanse will certainly be an emotional experience.
You'll find that the sweat doesn't erase the love. It doesn't undo the pain. But it moves something. And sometimes that's all we need. Maybe it is crying in child's pose, screaming in your car post-spin class or sitting in a steam room and feeling your entire nervous system exhale. We're after that release not the perfection or closure. Just circulation and release.
According to Dr. Whitney Bowe (dermatologist and author of The Beauty of Dirty Skin), “sweating increases skin hydration, promotes clarity by unclogging pores and enhances circulation, giving the skin that healthy post-workout glow.”
But only if you cleanse after. Otherwise, your sweat and emotional tears will concoct an acne cocktail. And so we designed a post-stress-cleanse-sweat ritual for you.
1. Cleanse:
Use a gentle cleanser like our Function Flow Cleanser to remove sweat, oil and stress-related impurities.
2. Mist:
Rehydrate your skin (and your spirit). Cooling mist equals a nervous system reset.
3. Moisturize:
Seal it in. Use Infinite Dimensions Moisturizer as a post-sweat skin hug. Let it hold you where no one else is right now.
4. Breathe:
Sit still. Let the stillness land. You moved it. You’re okay now.
No, you can’t sweat out the memory of them. But you can sweat out the shame. The pressure. The fear that you’ll never feel better. And maybe you don’t need to be “better” yet. Maybe you just need to move. To glow. To let go — one drop at a time.
* We promise there will be brighter days. Work out with us and cleanse with our Function Flow Cleanser, right after!