Anne

Bye.

Hi, John.

It's an honor and a privilege to speak with you today.

Thanks for taking my call.

So I've historically had a very demeaning and self-critical inner voice.

And so I'm wondering, how do I know if I've truly silenced her with my self-improvement journey over the last two and a half years so that I can proceed with permanently removing my breast implants?

Because I expect there will be aesthetic consequences from that that she would criticize.

So I got them at 22, right when I graduated college.

So I only spent maybe 10 years of my adolescent and young adult life without them.

And then I've spent 27 years with them.

I'm 49 now.

So as soon as I had a little bit of money graduating from college, that's when I did it.

No, it solved the problem at 22.

My inner voice was, as I said, very critical.

I was relentlessly bullied in middle school and high school, felt inadequate in intimate relationships.

And rather than trying to solve the problem internally or feeling comfortable with myself working on me, I turned to medications or alcohol or things to numb myself or my sense of inadequacies and silence that inner voice.

And then as soon as I had money, I got them, solved that problem.

I went ahead with my life.

And looking back, I regret it.

I certainly regret it for the physical consequences.