When does the drive to improve stop helping you and start working against you?

Today on The Glow Show, Dr. Alexis Parcells sits down with Torey, a nurse practitioner in plastic surgery and former Division I athlete, for an honest conversation about competitiveness, beauty, self-improvement, patient care, and learning how to be kinder to yourself.

Torey shares how growing up in sports shaped her work ethic, discipline, and competitive mindset, and how that same mindset shows up in her life today, both personally and professionally. Together, Dr. Alexis and Torey explore what happens when the desire to be better enters the world of beauty, where there may not be a clear scoreboard, but women still often feel like they are being measured.

They discuss:

✨ How competitive sports can shape confidence, discipline, and self-expectations

✨ Why high-achieving women often struggle to turn off the pressure to improve

✨ What plastic surgery patients may be feeling before a consultation

✨ Why feeling seen, heard, and not judged matters in aesthetic medicine

✨ How working in the beauty space can change the way you see yourself

✨ Why access to treatments does not mean you have to do everything

✨ The difference between self-improvement and self-criticism

✨ Why being competitive with yourself can be helpful, but also exhausting

✨ Why “be kind to yourself” is advice women often need to hear most

This conversation is about more than sports, plastic surgery, or beauty treatments. It is about the internal scoreboard so many women carry, the pressure to keep improving, and the importance of making sure that drive comes from a place of self-respect, not self-judgment.

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