Being Your Own Advocate, Choosing Self Love, & Creativity as a Healing Outlet with Avery Toomes

Today we have an incredibly empowering story from Avery Toomes. After a challenging medical journey and being diagnosed with Acromegaly Avery shares how she’s come to be in a place of choosing self love and acceptance. During this conversation Avery gives insight into the process of her diagnosis, how acromegaly has changed her features, and how she has “laid to rest” the old version of herself so she can fully and happily be in her present self. We talk about the importance of being your own advocate, and how doing so regardless of what anyone else says, reminds us that we know our bodies best and ultimately this helps us strengthen the trust with ourselves. Avery has chosen growth, self love, compassion, acceptance, and gives us all the inspiration to do so ourselves. We also discuss how creativity as an outlet through hard things and life in general can be healing and truly save us sometimes. I'm so grateful for this conversation and for Avery sharing her story and bringing her powerful words here to this platform for you all to hear! Avery is also a beautifully talented writer and her substack will be linked down below along with her socials so please check that out and give her a follow!!

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Links:

Avery’s Substack: Link iconSubstackaveryla.substack.com/subscribe

Avery’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/averylaaa?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==