I Got My Body Back, So Where Was I?

Just Julia · Oct 2, 2026 · 8m · transcript

For a long time, I told myself that I would feel like myself again when I lost the weight.

After becoming a mother, my world became very small and very full at the same time. For the first two years, so much of my attention went toward my son that I barely thought about who I was outside of being his mother. What he needed, what he was eating, whether he was sleeping, where we needed to be, what came next. I don’t say that with regret. Those years mattered enormously to me, and I wanted to be present for them. But somewhere inside all of that love and responsibility, a part of me became very…