Join host Nyomi Banks on this powerful Transform Tuesday episode of The Season of Self Love Podcast as she delivers a raw, emotional response to Michelle Visage's "Explant" documentary. Speaking from deep reverence for body wisdom and righteous anger at a profit-driven system, Nyomi exposes the truth about breast implant history and challenges listeners to reclaim their authority over their own bodies. What You'll Discover: • The shocking truth about how breast implants were created in 1962 and their disturbing origins • Why the FDA's black box warning on implants is being treated as "optional" information by surgeons • How the medical industry profits from keeping women uninformed and compliant • The difference between being a passive patient versus an active participant in your health • Practical steps to develop daily body wisdom practices and trust your inner knowing Key Topics Covered:
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- The billion-dollar implant industry and medical paternalism
- Michelle Visage's brave journey and the power of sharing our stories
- How women's health concerns are consistently dismissed and minimized
- The pattern of profit over patient wellbeing in healthcare systems
- Why trusting your body's wisdom is a radical act of self-love and resistance
- Nyomi's personal experience with severe migraines during pre-surgery detox
- The disturbing history of implant testing (spoiler: it involved dogs, not proper human trials)
- How the documentary triggered both inspiration and horror about women's healthcare
- The importance of becoming your own health advocate and researcher
- Why your body doesn't lie - it has no profit motive, only your wellbeing
- How to listen to your body as your ultimate authority (not your only authority)
- The difference between fear-based medical decisions and body wisdom guidance
- Daily practices: body scans, meditation, journaling about physical and emotional feelings
- Building support networks that prioritize informed consent and bodily autonomy
- The revolutionary act of trusting yourself in a system that tells you not to
- Spend 5 minutes daily in quiet conversation with your body
- Notice how different foods, activities, and environments affect your energy
- Research thoroughly before major health decisions - don't rely on one source
- Practice respectful advocacy with healthcare providers
- Watch "Explant" on Paramount+ to support women's health awareness
- "Your body doesn't lie. It doesn't have a profit motive. It doesn't have an agenda except for your well-being."
- "The most radical thing we can do in a system that profits from our silence is to become the ultimate authority of our own experience."
- "Trusting your body's wisdom is a radical act of self-love and resistance."
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Coming Up: Tomorrow features patient advocate Laura Bowden sharing her 30+ year explant journey Hashtags: #TransformTuesday #BodyWisdom #ExplantJourney #WomensHealth #MedicalAdvocacy #BreastImplantIllness #InformedConsent #BodyAutonomy #TrustYourBody #PreparingForTransformation #Rebirth2025
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The ninety six all right, my beautiful people, all right,
so before we dive into this important conversation, let's ground
ourselves in the one truth that no system, no industry,
no authority can take away from us, and that's our
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own inner knowing, all right. So if you all can
just find a comfortable seed, will just lie down if
you can, or close your eyes. All right. Now, let's
take a deep, intentional breath in. I don't want you
to hold it gently and excel slowly, feeling your body
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settled in this moment. Now, I want you to continue
to breathe in, hold excel slowly. Now, as you continue
with that breathing, I want you to visualize a gentle,
warm the light rising from the very center of your ainion.
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This is your inner weistom, your body's intelligence, your intuitive
knowing that has been with you since birth. Now I
feel this growing brighter, stronger, more confident with each breath.
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This like represents your authority over your own body, your
right to know what's happening to you, your power to
make decisions that honor your highest good. Now, I want you
to breathe in openness and trust in your own know
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and when you breathe out, I want you to breathe
out doubt and the noise of external authorities who may
not have your best interests at heart. Because today we honor,
we honor the sacred voice of our bodies, and we
reclaim our right to be fully informed, fully respect and
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fully heard in our own and our own healing journeys.
And when you are ready, bring your awareness back to
our conversation, carrying this sense of inner authority with you.
Please shouldn't may open your eyes? All right, men, beautiful people,
if you are new here to the season and Sephaler podcasts,
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this is something we do every day, Monday through Friday.
All right, be beautiful souls. I need to be completely
honest with you today. You know, after watching Michelle Besides
documentary excellent yesterday, I have to say that I am
in equal parts, I'm inspired and i am horrified. You see,
I'm inspired by her curves to share her story so openly,
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but I'm also horrified that in twenty twenty five, we
are still fighting for basic honesty and respect in women's healthcare.
Here we are with the FDA finally placing a black
box warning on breast implants. Y'all don't understand. This is
the strongest warning they can issue, acknowledging the serious risk,
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including autoimmune symptom symptoms, neurological issues, and the constellation of
symptoms we know as be I that's breast implant illness.
But yet they still leave up to the surgeon to
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decide whether they want to share that information with the patients.
So I want y'all to let that seek in for
a moment. Just let that sink in for a moment.
The highest medical authority in our country has acknowledged these
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serious risks, but they're treating that information like it's optional
to share with the women whose bodies will be affected.
As someone just weeks away from my own explex surgery,
this feels personal. How many women are getting implants today
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without being told that the black box warning. How many
are being dismissed when they report systems when they report
their symptoms, how many are being told that their concerns
aren't real while their bodies are literally crying out for help.
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Or today we're going to talk about something that goes
beyond identic, goes beyond implants. We're talking about reclaiming our
authority over our own bodies and the system that often
profits from keeping us uninformed and unheard. I promise y'all,
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when I when I thought about, let me not say
thought about, but when I was led to do this,
when I was guided to do this this series this month,
you know, I knew how serious it was. But when
you go back and you look, you look at this documentary,
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you look at the history of ex I mean of
implants and why they were created, and you know, tomorrow
guests that amazing lower about and she had actually told
me when we recorded it to you know, take a
look at that, that that documentary. And honestly, I have
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been so busy, so busy trying to make sure that
I record all the episodes else so when I am
during my healing process on my explant, that I'm able
to truly heal. But I hadn't had time to to
watch it. Well, yesterday, after my My Life coach session
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with my client, I was feeling an amazing you know,
after speaking with him, and he had done such amazing
job and his journey, and it was our last it
was our last session, and I just, you know, just
was so proud of his his journey completely. And so
when I left that session, in that moment, you know,
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I went and I ate breakfast, and I was preparing
myself for to record today's episode as well as get
prepared for several interviews that I have later today. But
my body has something else in mind. My body started
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to feel heavy after I ate, and I remember going
into my room and I said, Okay, I'm gonna lay
down for a moment, and then I'm gonna get up
because there are several things that I want to do.
And I was actually preparing also this social media where
I was doing a countdown to my ex journey and
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I want to share some facts as well as share
some affirmations daily, you know, just continue to keep the
awareness going. But my body said no. And then all
of a sudden, this extreme headache migraine that I don't
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remember ever feeling it that bad. It was so bearer
bone and right now, I am kind of doing like
a gentle detox of my body. There are instructions for
us to do thirty days before our explant surgery to
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make sure there is no complication. And then part of
that is some of the herbs that I use for
my migraines that's been helping me to keep my migraines
at a minimum. I am not allowed to take those
because they will possibly call complication in my surgery. So,
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but also etcrin is. But I still got a little
window like three or four days and before. But you know,
I'm trying to be strong because I'm trying to get
familiar on with this pain field because i know in
the next thirty six days that I'm going to be
feeling this way until they remove these explants. So as
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I'm sitting there all day, and I think my husband
got off for work about one o'clock, one pint thirty,
and he brought me lunch, and I remember he had
touched my forehead and he literally felt the throbbing in
the palm of his palm of his hand and he said, Babe,
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there is nothing that you can take. And I said, well,
they did say that I can take Tyler Naw, I said,
but Tyler Naw has never helped my migraines. I would
have to take three to four et Cedric's extra strength
for it to minimize for a few hours. I said,
but I'm not allowed as of as of Saturday, Saturday
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coming up, I'm not allowed to take it. And I said,
I want to be strong, you know, in this, and
so I'm going to endure the pain. So as I'm
sitting there in bed and I'm eating, and you know,
he's trying to darken out the whole room for me,
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and I said, well, let me take a look at
this explant journey. So I subscribed to pairamunt Plus and I,
you know, I started to watch it and he said, wait,
hold on, let me go, you know, heat up me
some food, and I want to watch it with you.
Let's watch it together. And so as I'm sitting watching this,
I said, wow. From the very beginning of the documentary,
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I got so pissed and irritated. But also I understood
that if I wouldn't have laid down, if my migraine
wouldn't have came yesterday, that I probably wouldn't have watched
it yesterday. And I want to be very honest, I
don't know when I probably would have been would have
had the chance to really sit down and watch it,
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because I've been preparing for this ex plan to make
sure that my post He'll will be a success for me.
So right now I'm taking that, I'm embracing that moment
of pain that I had yesterday was a part of
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my purpose today. So now I want to share with
you that went through my mind and my heart while
watching Explant. By seeing Michelle's besides journey, her symptoms, her
struggles to be heard, her courage to choose her health
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over society expectation, I saw my own story reflecting back
at me. But I also saw stories of millions of
women who have been failed by a system that prioritize
that profit over our well being. When I tell you
that I saw Michelle visage because her life and her
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career ha has been in front of the camera, has
been on stage, and it was more of a mirror imaging.
She even shared that a few years ago before she
thought about that, before she said I'm going to do
and she thought about doing it, she talked herself out
of it because she felt that it was a part
of her brand, and I kind of could remember going
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back to that stage, and I think I shared that
last week with you all. But the documentary doesn't just
expose the implant industry, That's what I learned watching it.
It exposes a much larger problems. How many times have
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we as women been told that our symptoms are all
in our head? Many times we have? How many times
have we have been dismissed, minimized, or made to feel
like we're being dramatic or advocating for our own health?
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Even now, when friends, well they're supposed to be friends,
see you going through this and they have it, well,
what if you take them out and it's still not working?
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You know? And when I heard this person say this,
I was shocked.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I was shocked.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Because this person could probably be going through the same
thing and not even understand. I have several several girlfriends
that have implant that's in the industry, that's outside of
the industry, that had these implants. And when I watched
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that documentary, and I don't want to tell the whole documentary,
but I want to tell you the things that pissed
me out. First of all, with the doctor who created him,
and I believe the name is doctor Rory. And I
don't even know if I'm pronouncing his nine grow or
geo E r E whatever. He was born and raised
in Canada. He moved to America because he was a
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capitalist and he was, you know, wanted to make money.
You know, our health system is all about capitalism. It's
all about making money to where in Canada. No, that's
that's not what that is. But he he came here
as a he wanted to be a plastic surgeon. And
when and when he discovered what he wanted to do
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with this is how it all came about. He was
in the hospital room. He was doing, you know, doing
the typical thing with the bags and you know, putting
you know, blood and you know when you're taking blood
from people, and it got the bags of a blood
right and they had like a plastic type of soft
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container or bag. Let me say bag that the blood
is in. So as this man is walking down the hallway,
he is massaging in the bag and say, wow, this
feels like a breast. Let me tell y'all, I had
the pulse. It's because I said, did I just hear what?
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I think I heard.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
That?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And I'm so trying not to be on a sort
of kind of high horse or coming from MM. Right now,
I'm asking God just to just give me the words
right now, because as I replayed that back in my mind,
in my head, it was so perverted to me. And
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I know, people, how can you say that, Naomi and
you were in the adult industry, you were a porn star,
you was you know why? Because I can because I
felt that And it might feel like I'm judging, and
God forg forgive me, because I think I am. I
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I can be honest and say, yes, I think I
am judging in this moment because it wasn't for what
I thought it was. I thought that possibly they were created,
you know, in case women had gotten you know, breast cancer,
and you know it was for them to look, you know,
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be more full as a woman. But as I'm watching
this documentary, that was not the case. It was more
for visual pleasure for this man and for other men.
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When I say, when I look at that documentary and
even the amazing women that have interviewed with me for
this series and just in the groups, I can just
say that I've been one of the fortunate ones. When
I sat at my altared months ago and received that
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clear knowing that my implants had to go. I had
to assess I had the access to the information I
have advocance like lower about it to guide me. I
had the privilege of a choice and the resources to
act on my intuition. But watching that documentary, I couldn't
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stop thinking about all those women who don't have access
to that information and didn't did y'all know that implants
were created and developed in nineteen sixty two? Back then,
these women were being told that implants were safe without
being informed about the black But hold on, let.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Me before I even say that, Oh God, please, before
I even say that, they didn't really test these They.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Wasn't even they wasn't even approved by the FDA when
they tested the very first implantse as this doctor shared.
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They sent them small, small testers, and they placed it
in a dog, and a dog in a d og
that we call a female version a bitch. Yes, I
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said that, And I remember looking at my husband and
I said, you see this. During that I went through
so many emotions, so many emotions, and I wanna be
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very honest and candid with you all. I really wasn't
gonna talk about the documentary in full, I wasn't I
was gonna talk about more of honoring our body and
our wisdom and reclaiming it. But I remember saying to myself,
how can we do that when there is no honesty,
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there is no truth, and the choices that they give
us not at all? So how can I talk about
honoring our bodies and wisdom and reclaiming and being just
so many different things went through my head, so many emotions.
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Even before I began to push the record button for
this episode, I prayed and I asked God to guide
me through this, give me the words, because I knew
how emotional that I will be, what that will go
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through my whole body, the emotions, the feelings, but I
also the gratitude. I do feel so bad for the
women before me that didn't have a chance. And when
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you look at this documentary and you see that even
Michelle visage family, not her husband, and her husband was
there supporting them all the way. But she had a daughter,
And I was so angry because I said, if my
daughters weever, I probably would choked them. But it felt
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to me as she was gaslighting her mom. And she
even said, you sure you're not doing this for attention.
And the look on Michelle visage face was like, that's
what are you serious? Do you think that of me?
And when I saw that, that broke my heart. And
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that was in the beginning of the documentary. But then
let's talk about now. Let's talk about now that we
now have where the FDA has actually put a black
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box warning on these implants, but steady they're still telling
these women. And I don't want to say all, I
don't want to say all surgeons, but there's a lot
of them out there that are still implanting these implants,
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knowing without even telling the patient that there is a
black box warning on him. It's like, who are reporting
the symptoms and being told that there's no connections. That's
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just what some of these women are being not told
or told who are suffering. These women are suffering in
silence because they trust that their doctors are telling them
everything they need to know. I'm gonna tell y'all why
I chose doctor Sue because he said, I live by
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one thing now, to do no harm. That's a part
of their oath. So when he knew better, he said,
I'm gonna do better, So he doesn't even do in
plants anymore. You know. Again, I apologize because I really
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didn't know what this transformation right now would look like
for me. Because this isn't just about implase my beautiful people.
It's about a pattern where women experiences are consistently dismissed.
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I have three, three beautiful queens that are my daughters.
I have a grandbaby that is my granddaughter, and still
in twenty twenty five, we are not important, you know.
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This is where we are constantly dismissed, where our pain
is minimized, where our concerns are treated as a secondary
to profit, margins and convenience. I'm so sorry the fact
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that the FDA can acknowledge serious risk with the black
box warning but then leave it leave it up to
individual surgeons to decide rather patients need to know. That
tells us everything we need to know about whose interests
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are really being protected. So I'm torn. I'llmit that opening.
Do you really have control over our bodies when the
very system we're supposed to trust for guidance isn't being
honest with us? How do we make informed decisions when
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information is being with Hell, how do we trust our
bodies when we are not giving the full picture of
what we're putting in them. So let's talk about honoring
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our bodies wisdom, okay, and listening to our bodies as
our ultimate theory authority. Since here's what I've learned through
my own journey and through the stories of the incredible
women that I'm going to have this chance to share
on this podcast, that our bodies are constantly communicating with us.
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But the question is are we listening? And I can
go with stuff further back. Honestly, when I go back
and I think about a whole series, every series for
this year, my entire series for this year, for our
entire year of twenty twenty five, is the year of
the rebirth, and every series, every month is prepared us
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for wild prepare me for this month's series. It prepared
me for a transformation of my explained journey that I
did not know that I was going to do this year.
You see, when I started experiencing vertigo, my severe headaches
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and unexplained symptoms that that no doctor could connect any
of that to my implants, it was like my body
was screaming at me, like get this out of you.
But for years I didn't listen. I trusted external authorities
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over my own experience, and I let other people tell
me what was and wasn't possible for my body. You know,
the most radical thing that we can do in a
system that profits from our silence is to become the
ultimate authority of our own experience. Not the only authority.
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We need good medical care, we need professional guidance, but
the ultimate authority. What does that mean? To listen to
your body as your innercompass. We talk about that here
at the Season and Stuff Love. It means paying attention
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to physical sensations, emotional signals, and a deep intuitive knowing
that something isn't right. It means recognizing the difference between
what others tell us we should feel and what we
actually feel. Your body doesn't lie. It doesn't have a
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profit motive. It doesn't have an agenda except for your
well being. So when your body says something is wrong,
believe it. When your body says something feels off, investigate it.
When your body says it's time for a change, trust it.
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I learned this the hard way. For twenty years, I
ignored subtle signals from my body because I trusted what
I was told over what I was experienced. The vertigo
was the headaches were her mono, the fatigue was just life.
But my body knew the truth. My spirit knew the
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truth long before my mind caught up. You know, one
of the most powerful things of Misselle, besides saying in
her documentary about learning to trust herself again, that resonated
so deeply with me, because that's why this journey is
really important, because it's learning to trust ourselves in the
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world that constantly tells us not too. But also it
is the foundation and the core of the season of
Self Love podcast. This is when we embrace the intimate
relationships with ourselves, quieting the noise outside of our being.
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You see, the medical industry it wants us to be
passive patients, not got to participants in our own health.
They want us to accept what we're told without questions,
to trust blindly rather than to seek information, and to
be grateful for whatever treatment that we're offered, rather than
advocating for what we actually need. But our bodies are wise,
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and they know when something foreign is causing harm, they
know when healing is happening, They know what they need
to thrive. And the question is are we listening so
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let's talk honestly about what we're up against. The implant
industry is worth billions and billions of dollars. Plastic surgery
is one of the most profitable area yes of medicine.
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When that much money is involved, our well being becomes
secondary to profit margins. The fact that FDA can issue
a black box warning acknowledging series risks including audit and moan,
immune disorder, neurological symptoms, and mental health impacts, but then
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leave it up to the surgeons who decide whether to
share this information tells us everything we need to know
about where the priority lies. I want you to think
about this for a moment. If you were buying a
car and a manufacturer knew about the serious safety risk,
would it be acceptable for the car dealer to decide
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whether you need it to know about those risks? Of
course not. But somehow, when it comes to our bodies,
this is considered acceptable. The idea that medical professionals know
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better than we do, what information we can handle, what
risks that we're willing to accept, what choices we should
make about our own bodies. Medical paternalism at his worst.
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But here's the thing. We can't control what information is
shared with us, but we can control how we seek information.
We can't control whether our doctors tell us everything, but
we can't control whether we do our own research. We
can't control the motives of the medical industry, but we
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can control our response to it. You see the documentary
explain as are powerful. It's powerful because it shows women
taking back their power and Michelle Decide didn't wait for
permission to share her story. She didn't wait for the
medical establishment to validate her experience. She used a platform
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to create awareness and potentially save other women from what
she went through. That's what we have to do. Become
our own advocates, our own researchers, our own voices. We
have to educate ourselves through and seek out multiple perspectives
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and connect with other women who've walked this path. We
have to stop being polite and start being fierce affacans
of our own well being. We have to ask the
hard questions, demand complete information, and trust our own experience,
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even when is to miss by others. I remember when
I went back to my doctor after seeing this m
this neurologist, and I went back to my primary care
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doctor and I told him, look, don't put me on
no more medication. I'm not taking no more medication. Don't
put me on no more I said, because this right
here is outrageous to me, the incompetence of this one neurologist.
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And I wanted him to know that I wasn't angry
at him, because he was trying to figure out as
much as I was about what was going on with
my body. And then I made a decision and I
told him, I said, look, doctor Alexander, I said, I'm
going to do my due diligence and I'm going to
take these inplants out because I truly believe that this
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is what's causing everything that is happening to me. I
just want to be at one hundred percent. I just
want to feel good. And he said, I hear you.
He said, please. He asked me what doctor I was seeing,
and at that time I hadn't had a doctor. But
he told me to keep him, you know, posted on
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what's happening, and he'll see me right before you know.
But share my journey and let me know what's going on.
But every doctor is not like that. Every doctor is
not like that, and it's unfortunate that the systems wants
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us quiet. They wants us compliant and grateful, but our health,
our lives are too important for politeness. We have to
be willing to be uncomfortable, to ask the questions that
might annoy our doctors, to seek second third opinions, to
trust our bodies over profit driven narratives. So how do
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we honor How do we practically honor our Bodi's wisdom
in a system that often works against us? How do
we reclaim our authority when we're dealing with institutions that
profit from our compliance? First, we develop a daily practice
of listening to through our bodies. This isn't just about
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big health decision. This is about tuning in every single
day body scans, meditation, journeying about how you feel physically
and emotionally. And you ask your body, what do you
need today? How are you feeling? What's different? It's ee.
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The more the more we practice listening to our bodies
in small ways, the better that we become at hearing
them in big ways. See if you're not used to
checking in with your body regular, start small. Notice how
different foods make you feel. I remember, not long ago,
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I was trying to figure out what triggers my vertical
and so I took like I think it was like
a seven day thing where each day I would eat
something different and figure out what was the thing that
was truly you know, triggering my vertigo also notdles your
energy levels throughout the day. Notice what activities make you
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feel virate versus drained. And in second, we educate ourselves
throughly before making any major decisions and don't rely solely
on what one doctor tells you. Research on your own,
connect with others who have had similar experiences. Seek out
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multiple multiple medical opinions, read the studies, understand the risk,
and know what questions to ask. In third, we create
our own support networks. Connect with other women who prioritize
and form consent, consent and bodily autonomy. Find health care
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provider who see you as a partner to your health
and not a passive recipient of their expertise. Surround yourself
with people who encourage you to trust your own experience.
And fourth, we practice what I call respectful advocacy. We
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can be firm about our needs while still being respectful.
We can ask our questions while still maintaining a relationship
with our healthcare providers. We can demand complete information while
still acknowledging medical expertise. And finally, we have to trust
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our bodies over external authorities when our experience conflicts with
what we're told. If your body is telling you something
is wrong, and trusted. If your intuition is saying treatment
isn't right for you, then listen to that. If your
symptoms are real, advocate for acknowledgment and care, regardless of
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whether others understand or validate your experience. You know again,
I want to share something personal about how trusting my
body wisdom has guided my decision. When I first started
researching experts surgery, I felt overwhelmed by all the information
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and I still got a lot more information to go,
all the different opinions, all the fear based stories on
both sides. But when I got quiet and I listened
to my body, and I really listened to, the answer
was clear. My body felt heavy, it felt tired and flamed.
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When I visualized removing my implants, I felt lighter, I
felt freer, more like myself. That knowing came from a
place deeper than my mind, deeper than fear, deeper than
what anyone else thought I should do. You see, that's
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the level of listening that I'm talking about. No surface
level should I or shouldn't I mental shatter, none of that,
But it's the deep body wisdom that knows what's right
for your highest good. And I also want to acknowledge
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on how hard this can be when you're dealing with
medical professionals who dismiss your concerns or make you feel
like you're being dramatic. You know, I've been fortunate and
I can say this about my primary provider who listen
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and respect my experiences, but also doctor Sude. But I
also know that's not everyone's reality. And again I thank
Laura for continually being right there in the front, right
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there in the front. So if you are in a
situation where your concerns are being dismissed, please know that
your experience is valid, your symptoms are real, and your
intuition about your body it's trustworthy. Don't let anyone convince
you otherwise. You have the right to be fully informed
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about a medical treatment. You have the right to ask questions,
to seek second opinions, to take time to make decisions.
You have the right to be treated as the ultimate
authority on your own experience. So, my beautiful souls. I
want you to reflect on these questions. What is your
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body telling you right now about what it needs? Are
you listening beyond the noise of external voices to your
own truth? And what would change in your life if
you trust in your body wisdom completely. Your body has
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been with you since birth. It has carried you through
every challenge, every celebration, every moment of your life, and
it deserves your trust. It deserves your attention, and it
deserves your fears afficacy. So this week I'm in you
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to deepen your relationship with your body's wisdom. Each morning,
spend five minutes in a quiet conversation with your body
and ask what signals are you giving me today? What
do you need me to know? What do you need
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me to honor? And journal about what comes up? Notice
any symptoms, any sensations, or in two of the nudges
that you've been dismissing or ignoring. Practice trusting your body's
communication even in small decisions what to eat, when to rest,
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how to move. If you're facing any major health decisions,
commit to educating yourself thoroughly. Commit to education yourself thoroughly.
Don't rely on one source of information, seek out multiple perspectives,
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connect with others who walk similar paths, and asks those
hard questions and the man complete answers and please. If
you haven't already watched xpland on Paramount Plus, Michelle Vsage
courage is sharing her story. It's creating awareness that can
save lives. Support content that prioritize whimen's women's health over
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profit margins. Now share your own journey of learning to
trust your body by using hashtag trust your Body's Wisdom.
Your story might be exactly what other women need to
hear to trust her own experience or to seek the
care that she deserves. Remember, in a system that is
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often profits from our silence and compliance, trust in your
body's wisdom is a radical act of self love and resistance.
Now I was close today episode, I want to leave
you with this truth. Honoring your body's wisdom is not
just fundamental to genuine healing and transformation. It's a revolutionary
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It's a revolutionary act in a world that tells us
we don't know our own bodies, our own needs, and
our own truths. You are your best healer and guide,
but not your only guide. We need good medical care,
We need community support, We need professional expertise, but your
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best guide. But you're your best guy because no one
else lives in your body, no one else feels what
you feel, and no one else knows your experience like
you do. The system may not always have your best
interest as her, but your body always does. And trust
that honor that act from that knowing. So next week
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we're going to be diving more in healing from within
and nurturing your body. Voice during this transition would explore
how to support the body's wisdom through times of change
and uncertainty. And tomorrow we have the amazing Laura Barton
who will come in. She is a patient advacant, but
also she has walked this journey along with us. She
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walked this journey over thirty forty years ago and she's
still here strong. Her story is amazing. I want to
apologize right before because during the recording of that, it
was so much energy that was connected between her and
I that it interrupted some of our recording. And I
tried my very best to add it as much as possible,
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but I believe you would get the logist of it all.
So if you can get past it tomorrow with some
of the things and just listen to the stories. Listen
to it, you would get it. But I want to
thank you for joining me in disappointing conversation. I want
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to thank you for your courage to trust yourself and
this world that often tells you not to. I'm going
to thank you for being a part of a community
that honort truth, supports authentic healing, and refuse it to
accept less than we deserve. So I wanted to keep
listening to your beautiful, your wise, your strong bodies of yours,
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Keep trusting your experience, keep advocating for yourself with fierce
love and unwavering determination. Your body wisdom is your superpower,
and use him. So next time, this is Naomi makes
reminding you that you are the expert of your own experience,
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and this expertise is sacred. I love you all, I
see you all have an amazing day. Thank you for
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The ninety six all right, my beautiful people, all right,
so before we dive into this important conversation, let's ground
ourselves in the one truth that no system, no industry,
no authority can take away from us, and that's our
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own inner knowing, all right. So if you all can
just find a comfortable seed, will just lie down if
you can, or close your eyes. All right. Now, let's
take a deep, intentional breath in. I don't want you
to hold it gently and excel slowly, feeling your body
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settled in this moment. Now, I want you to continue
to breathe in, hold excel slowly. Now, as you continue
with that breathing, I want you to visualize a gentle,
warm the light rising from the very center of your ainion.
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This is your inner weistom, your body's intelligence, your intuitive
knowing that has been with you since birth. Now I
feel this growing brighter, stronger, more confident with each breath.
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This like represents your authority over your own body, your
right to know what's happening to you, your power to
make decisions that honor your highest good. Now, I want you
to breathe in openness and trust in your own know
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and when you breathe out, I want you to breathe
out doubt and the noise of external authorities who may
not have your best interests at heart. Because today we honor,
we honor the sacred voice of our bodies, and we
reclaim our right to be fully informed, fully respect and
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fully heard in our own and our own healing journeys.
And when you are ready, bring your awareness back to
our conversation, carrying this sense of inner authority with you.
Please shouldn't may open your eyes? All right, men, beautiful people,
if you are new here to the season and Sephaler podcasts,
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this is something we do every day, Monday through Friday.
All right, be beautiful souls. I need to be completely
honest with you today. You know, after watching Michelle Besides
documentary excellent yesterday, I have to say that I am
in equal parts, I'm inspired and i am horrified. You see,
I'm inspired by her curves to share her story so openly,
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but I'm also horrified that in twenty twenty five, we
are still fighting for basic honesty and respect in women's healthcare.
Here we are with the FDA finally placing a black
box warning on breast implants. Y'all don't understand. This is
the strongest warning they can issue, acknowledging the serious risk,
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including autoimmune symptom symptoms, neurological issues, and the constellation of
symptoms we know as be I that's breast implant illness.
But yet they still leave up to the surgeon to
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decide whether they want to share that information with the patients.
So I want y'all to let that seek in for
a moment. Just let that sink in for a moment.
The highest medical authority in our country has acknowledged these
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serious risks, but they're treating that information like it's optional
to share with the women whose bodies will be affected.
As someone just weeks away from my own explex surgery,
this feels personal. How many women are getting implants today
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without being told that the black box warning. How many
are being dismissed when they report systems when they report
their symptoms, how many are being told that their concerns
aren't real while their bodies are literally crying out for help.
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Or today we're going to talk about something that goes
beyond identic, goes beyond implants. We're talking about reclaiming our
authority over our own bodies and the system that often
profits from keeping us uninformed and unheard. I promise y'all,
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when I when I thought about, let me not say
thought about, but when I was led to do this,
when I was guided to do this this series this month,
you know, I knew how serious it was. But when
you go back and you look, you look at this documentary,
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you look at the history of ex I mean of
implants and why they were created, and you know, tomorrow
guests that amazing lower about and she had actually told
me when we recorded it to you know, take a
look at that, that that documentary. And honestly, I have
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been so busy, so busy trying to make sure that
I record all the episodes else so when I am
during my healing process on my explant, that I'm able
to truly heal. But I hadn't had time to to
watch it. Well, yesterday, after my My Life coach session
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with my client, I was feeling an amazing you know,
after speaking with him, and he had done such amazing
job and his journey, and it was our last it
was our last session, and I just, you know, just
was so proud of his his journey completely. And so
when I left that session, in that moment, you know,
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I went and I ate breakfast, and I was preparing
myself for to record today's episode as well as get
prepared for several interviews that I have later today. But
my body has something else in mind. My body started
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to feel heavy after I ate, and I remember going
into my room and I said, Okay, I'm gonna lay
down for a moment, and then I'm gonna get up
because there are several things that I want to do.
And I was actually preparing also this social media where
I was doing a countdown to my ex journey and
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I want to share some facts as well as share
some affirmations daily, you know, just continue to keep the
awareness going. But my body said no. And then all
of a sudden, this extreme headache migraine that I don't
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remember ever feeling it that bad. It was so bearer
bone and right now, I am kind of doing like
a gentle detox of my body. There are instructions for
us to do thirty days before our explant surgery to
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make sure there is no complication. And then part of
that is some of the herbs that I use for
my migraines that's been helping me to keep my migraines
at a minimum. I am not allowed to take those
because they will possibly call complication in my surgery. So,
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but also etcrin is. But I still got a little
window like three or four days and before. But you know,
I'm trying to be strong because I'm trying to get
familiar on with this pain field because i know in
the next thirty six days that I'm going to be
feeling this way until they remove these explants. So as
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I'm sitting there all day, and I think my husband
got off for work about one o'clock, one pint thirty,
and he brought me lunch, and I remember he had
touched my forehead and he literally felt the throbbing in
the palm of his palm of his hand and he said, Babe,
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there is nothing that you can take. And I said, well,
they did say that I can take Tyler Naw, I said,
but Tyler Naw has never helped my migraines. I would
have to take three to four et Cedric's extra strength
for it to minimize for a few hours. I said,
but I'm not allowed as of as of Saturday, Saturday
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coming up, I'm not allowed to take it. And I said,
I want to be strong, you know, in this, and
so I'm going to endure the pain. So as I'm
sitting there in bed and I'm eating, and you know,
he's trying to darken out the whole room for me,
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and I said, well, let me take a look at
this explant journey. So I subscribed to pairamunt Plus and I,
you know, I started to watch it and he said, wait,
hold on, let me go, you know, heat up me
some food, and I want to watch it with you.
Let's watch it together. And so as I'm sitting watching this,
I said, wow. From the very beginning of the documentary,
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I got so pissed and irritated. But also I understood
that if I wouldn't have laid down, if my migraine
wouldn't have came yesterday, that I probably wouldn't have watched
it yesterday. And I want to be very honest, I
don't know when I probably would have been would have
had the chance to really sit down and watch it,
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because I've been preparing for this ex plan to make
sure that my post He'll will be a success for me.
So right now I'm taking that, I'm embracing that moment
of pain that I had yesterday was a part of
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my purpose today. So now I want to share with
you that went through my mind and my heart while
watching Explant. By seeing Michelle's besides journey, her symptoms, her
struggles to be heard, her courage to choose her health
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over society expectation, I saw my own story reflecting back
at me. But I also saw stories of millions of
women who have been failed by a system that prioritize
that profit over our well being. When I tell you
that I saw Michelle visage because her life and her
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career ha has been in front of the camera, has
been on stage, and it was more of a mirror imaging.
She even shared that a few years ago before she
thought about that, before she said I'm going to do
and she thought about doing it, she talked herself out
of it because she felt that it was a part
of her brand, and I kind of could remember going
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back to that stage, and I think I shared that
last week with you all. But the documentary doesn't just
expose the implant industry, That's what I learned watching it.
It exposes a much larger problems. How many times have
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we as women been told that our symptoms are all
in our head? Many times we have? How many times
have we have been dismissed, minimized, or made to feel
like we're being dramatic or advocating for our own health?
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Even now, when friends, well they're supposed to be friends,
see you going through this and they have it, well,
what if you take them out and it's still not working?
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You know? And when I heard this person say this,
I was shocked.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I was shocked.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Because this person could probably be going through the same
thing and not even understand. I have several several girlfriends
that have implant that's in the industry, that's outside of
the industry, that had these implants. And when I watched
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that documentary, and I don't want to tell the whole documentary,
but I want to tell you the things that pissed
me out. First of all, with the doctor who created him,
and I believe the name is doctor Rory. And I
don't even know if I'm pronouncing his nine grow or
geo E r E whatever. He was born and raised
in Canada. He moved to America because he was a
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capitalist and he was, you know, wanted to make money.
You know, our health system is all about capitalism. It's
all about making money to where in Canada. No, that's
that's not what that is. But he he came here
as a he wanted to be a plastic surgeon. And
when and when he discovered what he wanted to do
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with this is how it all came about. He was
in the hospital room. He was doing, you know, doing
the typical thing with the bags and you know, putting
you know, blood and you know when you're taking blood
from people, and it got the bags of a blood
right and they had like a plastic type of soft
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container or bag. Let me say bag that the blood
is in. So as this man is walking down the hallway,
he is massaging in the bag and say, wow, this
feels like a breast. Let me tell y'all, I had
the pulse. It's because I said, did I just hear what?
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I think I heard.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
That?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And I'm so trying not to be on a sort
of kind of high horse or coming from MM. Right now,
I'm asking God just to just give me the words
right now, because as I replayed that back in my mind,
in my head, it was so perverted to me. And
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I know, people, how can you say that, Naomi and
you were in the adult industry, you were a porn star,
you was you know why? Because I can because I
felt that And it might feel like I'm judging, and
God forg forgive me, because I think I am. I
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I can be honest and say, yes, I think I
am judging in this moment because it wasn't for what
I thought it was. I thought that possibly they were created,
you know, in case women had gotten you know, breast cancer,
and you know it was for them to look, you know,
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be more full as a woman. But as I'm watching
this documentary, that was not the case. It was more
for visual pleasure for this man and for other men.
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When I say, when I look at that documentary and
even the amazing women that have interviewed with me for
this series and just in the groups, I can just
say that I've been one of the fortunate ones. When
I sat at my altared months ago and received that
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clear knowing that my implants had to go. I had
to assess I had the access to the information I
have advocance like lower about it to guide me. I
had the privilege of a choice and the resources to
act on my intuition. But watching that documentary, I couldn't
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stop thinking about all those women who don't have access
to that information and didn't did y'all know that implants
were created and developed in nineteen sixty two? Back then,
these women were being told that implants were safe without
being informed about the black But hold on, let.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Me before I even say that, Oh God, please, before
I even say that, they didn't really test these They.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Wasn't even they wasn't even approved by the FDA when
they tested the very first implantse as this doctor shared.
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They sent them small, small testers, and they placed it
in a dog, and a dog in a d og
that we call a female version a bitch. Yes, I
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said that, And I remember looking at my husband and
I said, you see this. During that I went through
so many emotions, so many emotions, and I wanna be
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very honest and candid with you all. I really wasn't
gonna talk about the documentary in full, I wasn't I
was gonna talk about more of honoring our body and
our wisdom and reclaiming it. But I remember saying to myself,
how can we do that when there is no honesty,
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there is no truth, and the choices that they give
us not at all? So how can I talk about
honoring our bodies and wisdom and reclaiming and being just
so many different things went through my head, so many emotions.
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Even before I began to push the record button for
this episode, I prayed and I asked God to guide
me through this, give me the words, because I knew
how emotional that I will be, what that will go
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through my whole body, the emotions, the feelings, but I
also the gratitude. I do feel so bad for the
women before me that didn't have a chance. And when
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you look at this documentary and you see that even
Michelle visage family, not her husband, and her husband was
there supporting them all the way. But she had a daughter,
And I was so angry because I said, if my
daughters weever, I probably would choked them. But it felt
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to me as she was gaslighting her mom. And she
even said, you sure you're not doing this for attention.
And the look on Michelle visage face was like, that's
what are you serious? Do you think that of me?
And when I saw that, that broke my heart. And
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that was in the beginning of the documentary. But then
let's talk about now. Let's talk about now that we
now have where the FDA has actually put a black
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box warning on these implants, but steady they're still telling
these women. And I don't want to say all, I
don't want to say all surgeons, but there's a lot
of them out there that are still implanting these implants,
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knowing without even telling the patient that there is a
black box warning on him. It's like, who are reporting
the symptoms and being told that there's no connections. That's
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just what some of these women are being not told
or told who are suffering. These women are suffering in
silence because they trust that their doctors are telling them
everything they need to know. I'm gonna tell y'all why
I chose doctor Sue because he said, I live by
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one thing now, to do no harm. That's a part
of their oath. So when he knew better, he said,
I'm gonna do better, So he doesn't even do in
plants anymore. You know. Again, I apologize because I really
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didn't know what this transformation right now would look like
for me. Because this isn't just about implase my beautiful people.
It's about a pattern where women experiences are consistently dismissed.
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I have three, three beautiful queens that are my daughters.
I have a grandbaby that is my granddaughter, and still
in twenty twenty five, we are not important, you know.
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This is where we are constantly dismissed, where our pain
is minimized, where our concerns are treated as a secondary
to profit, margins and convenience. I'm so sorry the fact
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that the FDA can acknowledge serious risk with the black
box warning but then leave it leave it up to
individual surgeons to decide rather patients need to know. That
tells us everything we need to know about whose interests
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are really being protected. So I'm torn. I'llmit that opening.
Do you really have control over our bodies when the
very system we're supposed to trust for guidance isn't being
honest with us? How do we make informed decisions when
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information is being with Hell, how do we trust our
bodies when we are not giving the full picture of
what we're putting in them. So let's talk about honoring
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our bodies wisdom, okay, and listening to our bodies as
our ultimate theory authority. Since here's what I've learned through
my own journey and through the stories of the incredible
women that I'm going to have this chance to share
on this podcast, that our bodies are constantly communicating with us.
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But the question is are we listening? And I can
go with stuff further back. Honestly, when I go back
and I think about a whole series, every series for
this year, my entire series for this year, for our
entire year of twenty twenty five, is the year of
the rebirth, and every series, every month is prepared us
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for wild prepare me for this month's series. It prepared
me for a transformation of my explained journey that I
did not know that I was going to do this year.
You see, when I started experiencing vertigo, my severe headaches
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and unexplained symptoms that that no doctor could connect any
of that to my implants, it was like my body
was screaming at me, like get this out of you.
But for years I didn't listen. I trusted external authorities
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over my own experience, and I let other people tell
me what was and wasn't possible for my body. You know,
the most radical thing that we can do in a
system that profits from our silence is to become the
ultimate authority of our own experience. Not the only authority.
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We need good medical care, we need professional guidance, but
the ultimate authority. What does that mean? To listen to
your body as your innercompass. We talk about that here
at the Season and Stuff Love. It means paying attention
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to physical sensations, emotional signals, and a deep intuitive knowing
that something isn't right. It means recognizing the difference between
what others tell us we should feel and what we
actually feel. Your body doesn't lie. It doesn't have a
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profit motive. It doesn't have an agenda except for your
well being. So when your body says something is wrong,
believe it. When your body says something feels off, investigate it.
When your body says it's time for a change, trust it.
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I learned this the hard way. For twenty years, I
ignored subtle signals from my body because I trusted what
I was told over what I was experienced. The vertigo
was the headaches were her mono, the fatigue was just life.
But my body knew the truth. My spirit knew the
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truth long before my mind caught up. You know, one
of the most powerful things of Misselle, besides saying in
her documentary about learning to trust herself again, that resonated
so deeply with me, because that's why this journey is
really important, because it's learning to trust ourselves in the
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world that constantly tells us not too. But also it
is the foundation and the core of the season of
Self Love podcast. This is when we embrace the intimate
relationships with ourselves, quieting the noise outside of our being.
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You see, the medical industry it wants us to be
passive patients, not got to participants in our own health.
They want us to accept what we're told without questions,
to trust blindly rather than to seek information, and to
be grateful for whatever treatment that we're offered, rather than
advocating for what we actually need. But our bodies are wise,
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and they know when something foreign is causing harm, they
know when healing is happening, They know what they need
to thrive. And the question is are we listening so
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let's talk honestly about what we're up against. The implant
industry is worth billions and billions of dollars. Plastic surgery
is one of the most profitable area yes of medicine.
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When that much money is involved, our well being becomes
secondary to profit margins. The fact that FDA can issue
a black box warning acknowledging series risks including audit and moan,
immune disorder, neurological symptoms, and mental health impacts, but then
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leave it up to the surgeons who decide whether to
share this information tells us everything we need to know
about where the priority lies. I want you to think
about this for a moment. If you were buying a
car and a manufacturer knew about the serious safety risk,
would it be acceptable for the car dealer to decide
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whether you need it to know about those risks? Of
course not. But somehow, when it comes to our bodies,
this is considered acceptable. The idea that medical professionals know
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better than we do, what information we can handle, what
risks that we're willing to accept, what choices we should
make about our own bodies. Medical paternalism at his worst.
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But here's the thing. We can't control what information is
shared with us, but we can control how we seek information.
We can't control whether our doctors tell us everything, but
we can't control whether we do our own research. We
can't control the motives of the medical industry, but we
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can control our response to it. You see the documentary
explain as are powerful. It's powerful because it shows women
taking back their power and Michelle Decide didn't wait for
permission to share her story. She didn't wait for the
medical establishment to validate her experience. She used a platform
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to create awareness and potentially save other women from what
she went through. That's what we have to do. Become
our own advocates, our own researchers, our own voices. We
have to educate ourselves through and seek out multiple perspectives
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and connect with other women who've walked this path. We
have to stop being polite and start being fierce affacans
of our own well being. We have to ask the
hard questions, demand complete information, and trust our own experience,
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even when is to miss by others. I remember when
I went back to my doctor after seeing this m
this neurologist, and I went back to my primary care
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doctor and I told him, look, don't put me on
no more medication. I'm not taking no more medication. Don't
put me on no more I said, because this right
here is outrageous to me, the incompetence of this one neurologist.
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And I wanted him to know that I wasn't angry
at him, because he was trying to figure out as
much as I was about what was going on with
my body. And then I made a decision and I
told him, I said, look, doctor Alexander, I said, I'm
going to do my due diligence and I'm going to
take these inplants out because I truly believe that this
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is what's causing everything that is happening to me. I
just want to be at one hundred percent. I just
want to feel good. And he said, I hear you.
He said, please. He asked me what doctor I was seeing,
and at that time I hadn't had a doctor. But
he told me to keep him, you know, posted on
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what's happening, and he'll see me right before you know.
But share my journey and let me know what's going on.
But every doctor is not like that. Every doctor is
not like that, and it's unfortunate that the systems wants
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us quiet. They wants us compliant and grateful, but our health,
our lives are too important for politeness. We have to
be willing to be uncomfortable, to ask the questions that
might annoy our doctors, to seek second third opinions, to
trust our bodies over profit driven narratives. So how do
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we honor How do we practically honor our Bodi's wisdom
in a system that often works against us? How do
we reclaim our authority when we're dealing with institutions that
profit from our compliance? First, we develop a daily practice
of listening to through our bodies. This isn't just about
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big health decision. This is about tuning in every single
day body scans, meditation, journeying about how you feel physically
and emotionally. And you ask your body, what do you
need today? How are you feeling? What's different? It's ee.
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The more the more we practice listening to our bodies
in small ways, the better that we become at hearing
them in big ways. See if you're not used to
checking in with your body regular, start small. Notice how
different foods make you feel. I remember, not long ago,
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I was trying to figure out what triggers my vertical
and so I took like I think it was like
a seven day thing where each day I would eat
something different and figure out what was the thing that
was truly you know, triggering my vertigo also notdles your
energy levels throughout the day. Notice what activities make you
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feel virate versus drained. And in second, we educate ourselves
throughly before making any major decisions and don't rely solely
on what one doctor tells you. Research on your own,
connect with others who have had similar experiences. Seek out
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multiple multiple medical opinions, read the studies, understand the risk,
and know what questions to ask. In third, we create
our own support networks. Connect with other women who prioritize
and form consent, consent and bodily autonomy. Find health care
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provider who see you as a partner to your health
and not a passive recipient of their expertise. Surround yourself
with people who encourage you to trust your own experience.
And fourth, we practice what I call respectful advocacy. We
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can be firm about our needs while still being respectful.
We can ask our questions while still maintaining a relationship
with our healthcare providers. We can demand complete information while
still acknowledging medical expertise. And finally, we have to trust
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our bodies over external authorities when our experience conflicts with
what we're told. If your body is telling you something
is wrong, and trusted. If your intuition is saying treatment
isn't right for you, then listen to that. If your
symptoms are real, advocate for acknowledgment and care, regardless of
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whether others understand or validate your experience. You know again,
I want to share something personal about how trusting my
body wisdom has guided my decision. When I first started
researching experts surgery, I felt overwhelmed by all the information
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and I still got a lot more information to go,
all the different opinions, all the fear based stories on
both sides. But when I got quiet and I listened
to my body, and I really listened to, the answer
was clear. My body felt heavy, it felt tired and flamed.
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When I visualized removing my implants, I felt lighter, I
felt freer, more like myself. That knowing came from a
place deeper than my mind, deeper than fear, deeper than
what anyone else thought I should do. You see, that's
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the level of listening that I'm talking about. No surface
level should I or shouldn't I mental shatter, none of that,
But it's the deep body wisdom that knows what's right
for your highest good. And I also want to acknowledge
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on how hard this can be when you're dealing with
medical professionals who dismiss your concerns or make you feel
like you're being dramatic. You know, I've been fortunate and
I can say this about my primary provider who listen
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and respect my experiences, but also doctor Sude. But I
also know that's not everyone's reality. And again I thank
Laura for continually being right there in the front, right
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there in the front. So if you are in a
situation where your concerns are being dismissed, please know that
your experience is valid, your symptoms are real, and your
intuition about your body it's trustworthy. Don't let anyone convince
you otherwise. You have the right to be fully informed
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about a medical treatment. You have the right to ask questions,
to seek second opinions, to take time to make decisions.
You have the right to be treated as the ultimate
authority on your own experience. So, my beautiful souls. I
want you to reflect on these questions. What is your
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body telling you right now about what it needs? Are
you listening beyond the noise of external voices to your
own truth? And what would change in your life if
you trust in your body wisdom completely. Your body has
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been with you since birth. It has carried you through
every challenge, every celebration, every moment of your life, and
it deserves your trust. It deserves your attention, and it
deserves your fears afficacy. So this week I'm in you
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to deepen your relationship with your body's wisdom. Each morning,
spend five minutes in a quiet conversation with your body
and ask what signals are you giving me today? What
do you need me to know? What do you need
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me to honor? And journal about what comes up? Notice
any symptoms, any sensations, or in two of the nudges
that you've been dismissing or ignoring. Practice trusting your body's
communication even in small decisions what to eat, when to rest,
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how to move. If you're facing any major health decisions,
commit to educating yourself thoroughly. Commit to education yourself thoroughly.
Don't rely on one source of information, seek out multiple perspectives,
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connect with others who walk similar paths, and asks those
hard questions and the man complete answers and please. If
you haven't already watched xpland on Paramount Plus, Michelle Vsage
courage is sharing her story. It's creating awareness that can
save lives. Support content that prioritize whimen's women's health over
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profit margins. Now share your own journey of learning to
trust your body by using hashtag trust your Body's Wisdom.
Your story might be exactly what other women need to
hear to trust her own experience or to seek the
care that she deserves. Remember, in a system that is
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often profits from our silence and compliance, trust in your
body's wisdom is a radical act of self love and resistance.
Now I was close today episode, I want to leave
you with this truth. Honoring your body's wisdom is not
just fundamental to genuine healing and transformation. It's a revolutionary
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It's a revolutionary act in a world that tells us
we don't know our own bodies, our own needs, and
our own truths. You are your best healer and guide,
but not your only guide. We need good medical care,
We need community support, We need professional expertise, but your
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best guide. But you're your best guy because no one
else lives in your body, no one else feels what
you feel, and no one else knows your experience like
you do. The system may not always have your best
interest as her, but your body always does. And trust
that honor that act from that knowing. So next week
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we're going to be diving more in healing from within
and nurturing your body. Voice during this transition would explore
how to support the body's wisdom through times of change
and uncertainty. And tomorrow we have the amazing Laura Barton
who will come in. She is a patient advacant, but
also she has walked this journey along with us. She
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walked this journey over thirty forty years ago and she's
still here strong. Her story is amazing. I want to
apologize right before because during the recording of that, it
was so much energy that was connected between her and
I that it interrupted some of our recording. And I
tried my very best to add it as much as possible,
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but I believe you would get the logist of it all.
So if you can get past it tomorrow with some
of the things and just listen to the stories. Listen
to it, you would get it. But I want to
thank you for joining me in disappointing conversation. I want
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to thank you for your courage to trust yourself and
this world that often tells you not to. I'm going
to thank you for being a part of a community
that honort truth, supports authentic healing, and refuse it to
accept less than we deserve. So I wanted to keep
listening to your beautiful, your wise, your strong bodies of yours,
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Keep trusting your experience, keep advocating for yourself with fierce
love and unwavering determination. Your body wisdom is your superpower,
and use him. So next time, this is Naomi makes
reminding you that you are the expert of your own experience,
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and this expertise is sacred. I love you all, I
see you all have an amazing day. Thank you for
joining us on this journey of discovering and empowerment here
at the Season and Self Love Podcast. Remember, embracing self
love is a continuous journey, and we're so glad to
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have you with us. So if you enjoy today's episode,
please leave us a review and don't forget to join
our community. On Facebook at Season and self Love connect
with like minded individuals who are also on their self
love journey. Now, if you have any questions or topics
that you'd like for us to explore, we love to
hear from you. Email us at Season usseelf Love at
(54:57):
gmail dot com and let your voice be heard. So
until the next time, take a moment for yourself to
day and remember you are worthy of love, joy and
all the beautiful things that life has to offer. All
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