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This episode explores the deeper conversation around Ozempic and GLP-1s, focusing on the unconscious fears related to body image and taking up space.

Learn how to JournalSpeak ➡️ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/2ph33u2s Today I want to bring a conversation from Substack into the podcast because the response has been impossible to ignore. Everywhere we look right now, people are talking about Ozempic and other GLP-1s—whether they work, whether they’re safe, whether they’re a miracle or a problem. But what I'm noticing is that almost all of these conversations are happening on the surface. In this episode, I’m not here to tell you what to do with your body or whether these medications are right for you. I want us to slow this down and ask a different question—one that matters just as much, if not more. Through the lens of MindBody medicine and nervous system regulation, I think it's essential we explore what it really means to be “small” or “large,” and why so many of us carry a deeply unconscious fear of taking up space—not just physically, but energetically, emotionally, and in our lives. If we don’t bring awareness to this fear, we risk solving the wrong problem, no matter how powerful the solution looks. This episode is an invitation to pause, get curious, and begin to make the unconscious conscious—so we can make…

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