Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Juicebox podcast.

Body grief is the sense of loss and mourning that comes with living in an ever-changing body,

and in this new series with myself

and Erica Forsyth, we're going to talk all about it. If you're looking for community around

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started today at Contournext.com slash juicebox. Jump right in, Erica. Tell me what we're doing today hi we are going to move on to

stage five which is fight in our body grief series as we say every time this is they're not

linear even though we're discussing them in a numerical linear fashion and

sourcing this information from Jane Madangling's book. This is body grief.

Okay. Well, what does fight mean? I'm going to beat this thing. Yes. Tell me more.

Okay. So fight is exactly what you said. We kind of get into this mindset that I'm going to

beat this thing. We often hear we'll get into the, you know, I'm a T1D or diabetic warrior. We often

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