Episode 671: Stop Trying to Get Your Old Body Back
It is not a privilege that our bodies change.
It is a privilege that we lived long enough to change.
In this episode I challenge the assumption that a past version of your body was the standard against which all future versions should be judged. Bodies change because life happens. Because hormones shift, experiences accumulate, and time passes in a living system that is always responding to its environment. A body that never changed would be a body that was not fully alive.
I use the analogy of a thirty-year-old oak tree: you would not look at its wide trunk and deep roots and mourn that it…
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