I Lost the Weight. I Still Didn’t Feel Like Me.

Just Julia · Oct 9, 2026 · 19m · transcript

For years, I thought sensuality would come back when I felt good in my body again.

Then I lost the weight, became stronger, started enjoying clothes again, and waited.

Nothing happened.

That forced me to ask a much harder question: maybe I hadn’t lost that part of myself because of my body. Maybe I had been learning to hide her for years.

This episode is about the parts of ourselves we quietly suppress in order to be taken seriously, respectable, professional, safe, needed, or acceptable. For me, that part was femininity and sensuality. Motherhood pushed it even further into the background…