Apr 13 — Living — Self Care & Fitness

My Explant Journey

This is such a vulnerable topic to discuss here on my blog, something I never imagined I would be talking about with you guys. After sharing this journey recently on Instagram and seeing truly how much it has helped many of you, I am happy to be sharing the journey here as well. This will be a longer series as I want to keep it very informative for you. For today’s blog I will be sharing some of the posts I have made to social media so far as well as the Podcast Interview on Bird’s Payaya Podcast where I was Sarah’s guest, talking about my explant surgery. You can listen to this episode {HERE}. Thank you to all of you that have been SO supportive during my time of healing and with me sharing my journey!

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they asked her, "what does loving yourself mean?" she answered, "it means to uncover and please whatever keeps you from true happiness. to love ,honour, and accept every single part of you, especially those that are kept in the dark. it means to observe yourself continually with the utmost honesty and without judgement. loving yourself means striving to reach new heights of self understanding so as to cultivate the wisdom that inner peace requires." 💛 I tried to think of the perfect way to share this with you until I realized that there is no perfect way. I can’t control how this part of my life – that I am choosing to share with you – is received; I can only hope that it is received with grace. I hope that you understand that I am sharing this with you to raise awareness. To protect & educate others. For you to know that I do not want to be on this journey alone, I want to share this part of my story with you. I want you to see my healing journey and know why things might be different around here, I will be honest about all of this. On December 6th, I chose to have an Explant surgery. Like many women, I made this decision for my health – because a choice I made years ago, was making me sick. I bounced between petrified and empowered when considering sharing my story, fear of being judged – of offending or upsetting others. I've never discussed things like this on my blog or with you but this is an important message I must share. This story is not to make women feel like they do not have the power to make choices about their body, it's the opposite. I wish I was informed of the things I know now, when I was 18. LOVE YOURSELF. You are YOU for a reason. You are enough. You are beautiful and unique. You do not need to change your body to feel more like a woman, we are all different shapes and sizes and that is such an amazing thing! I have such a stronger relationship with myself now, accepting all of me. Self love is a daily practice, it isn’t easy and I am learning to be so much kinder to myself while teaching this to my babies! {Cont’ in comments}…

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“And I said to my body softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath and replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.” — @nayyirah.waheed | Since my Explant surgery on December 6th I have spent every day learning to love my body the way I haven’t in YEARS, giving it the love it deserves. It isn’t easy, I feel so much healthier & happy about having this surgery but my girls sure do look different. ☺️💛Practicing self-love is a daily practice, some days I’m beaming with pride about my decision and some days I’m crying when trying on a new bathing suit and that’s okay, I am on a journey. Why have I been sharing my #Explant journey? To raise awareness. We’ve been lied to for far too long about the safety of breast implants. So women will ask more questions when making a decision like I did, I’ve shared it for the countless women who’ve messaged me since I first shared this telling me they cancelled their breast augmentation surgeries and are practicing more self love themselves. For the countless women who’ve been researching since I shared, learning about what’s inside of them – the toxic chemical soups deemed safe to be in our bodies. Did you know the FDA has begun recalling breast implants? 1 brand and many more to go. Did you know 9 women have died from a rare cancer linked to breast implants? That over 90,000 women have negative side effects from them, or auto immune diseases? Did you know that the silicone shell around saline implants and silicone implants themselves have ingredients in them like platinum, epoxy and printer ink? Or that breast implants were never been tested in the temperature of the human body? Ya, neither did I. But by learning, we can do better! Together. More women are speaking out, things are shifting. Can you feel it? This month I will be sharing my entire Explant journey, raw & real – honest. I hope you’ll stick with me on this one, I know it’s not my usual kind of content but I need to share this on my platform, it’s important I use this platform for sharing my truth. Remember ladies, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.❤️

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