Christina Helena

My Scar is Sexy, United States

Title: Your Scar is the Sexiest Thing About You

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Biography

Christina is a speaker, writer/performer, and coach based in NewYork City. She is redefining and modernizing the stigma behindtrauma and pain with one simple thought:

Your scar is thesexiest thing about you.

At nineteen years old, she became one of the youngest pancreaticcancer survivors and four months later she graduated with herbachelor’s degree in Communication Arts. With a thirteen-inchscar across her abdomen, Christina knows the physical andemotional toll that our scars have on our self-worth and ability tolove ourselves.

Given six months to live Christina asked herself:

“What do you wantmore, your potential or to run away from the pain?”

Christina trained at LAMDA, The London Academy of Music &Drama where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in ClassicalPerformance. A couple of years later, she studied philosophy andtheology earning a Master of Science in Consciousness Studies.

An inspirational force, playwright, and classically trainedperformer, her autobiographical solo show

SCAR

, is currently indevelopment for an off-Broadway production to be directed bythe award-winning director Larry Moss.

SCAR

is about the cycle of violence and the choice each individualhas to become the reflection of their trauma or the choice todiscover the Self. A captivating take on the soul, trauma, andmental health. Forty-characters. One woman. One stage.

Most recently, Christina’s talk,

“My SCAR is Sexy”

was featured onGoalcast receiving over 10 million views.

Her TEDx talk,

“Dear Unresolved Soul, It’s Not Death You Fear,It’s Life,”

is about the perceived fear of mortality humans have asa substitution for self-responsibility for resolution of one’s pain.

As a highly sought-after keynote speaker on overcoming adversity,mental health, identity, resilience, and personal development, sheis helping others reprogram their thoughts and identity that havebeen shaped by trauma.

My Scar is Sexy is about ownership of our experiences, trauma,and stories without shame. Her talks are filled with rawauthenticity, truth, and passion.

Abstract

Overcoming Adversity

One thing is for sure, we all face adversity. We tend to look at adversity as thisexoteric thing. Something... that happened to us. Either by society, a person,an event, an experience. Oftentimes, a traumatizing moment. What about theadversity we create in our minds against ourselves? Our negative thoughts.Our limiting perspectives. Our critical self-talk. After meeting her inneradversity, Christina vowed to overcome it. What she did was ferocious.

Your Scar is the Sexiest Thing About You

Christina's resilient story about mental health, identity, and self-esteem willmotivate you to shift your perspective on traumatic events and adversity tocross the bridge into fearless self-acceptance. Her story about facing hermortality at nineteen years old, surviving pancreatic cancer, and learning tolive with the mental health effects of a thirteen-inch scar across her body willleave you thinking about your own scars. When you don't deal with yourscars, they deal with you.

The Responsibility for our Mental Health

Mental strength is invisible because our inner voice is invisible. Our scars arevery often invisible. Our shame is invisible. The masks we wear protect usfrom the world, but the shame and pain we suppress dismantle our strength.How we speak to ourself, is a reflection of our mental health. Our mentalhealth relies on our choice to heal our scars, embrace our humanity andunderstand that embodying vulnerability is our power.

The Power of our Intuition

That funny gut feeling. Do you trust it? Some call it, intuition, others call itinstinct or impulse. Some, consider it spiritual, the soul. Others associate itwith science as a calculated assessment. But most people believe their gutinstinct is right, and surprisingly they don't listen to it. Christina did, and itsaved her life. Her story explores the self-responsibility we have to follow ourintuition, and why most people fear it.