This week’s spiral is a vulnerable one.

After a quick side quest about aging, caffeine, and realizing my body is… changing (rude), we get into the real topic: body image.

I’m talking about growing up tall and feeling like I took up too much space. The years of constantly thinking about how I looked. The phases of feeling like I couldn’t be seen without being “put together.” The social media comparison trap. The confidence that comes in waves — one day feeling strong and grateful, the next spiraling over a single bad photo.

We get into the impossible beauty standards, the “why is it never enough?” feeling, genetics, and doing whatever actually helps you show up confidently — whether that’s self-tan, makeup, or an oversized tee.

This isn’t a “just love yourself” episode. It’s an honest one. About how exhausting body image can be — and how maybe we can start being a little kinder to ourselves in real time instead of only in hindsight.

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This week’s spiral is about reclaiming messiness in your 20s. Somewhere along the way, being young turned into perfect routines, early bedtimes, and treating life like a performance review and I’m calling bullshit.

Being messy doesn’t mean being self-destructive. It means saying yes sometimes, staying out late, making mistakes, kissing people you won’t marry, missing a workout because life happened, and actually living. Especially after everything our generation has been through, a pandemic, impossible dating culture, a brutal job market, rising costs, nonstop comparison, and a terrifying political climate.

We didn’t get the carefree youth we were promised. So we don’t need to rush into acting 50.

Messy is a phase. Messy is human. Messy is in.

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This week I’m spiraling about journal tok and why wellness culture sometimes feels like another way we’re told there’s a “right” way to be healthy (and if you don’t do it perfectly, you’re failing). From there, I share some 2026 pod predictions (no goals, just vibes and consequences) and then get into people pleasing. Why we do it, how it shows up, and how to start fighting those tendencies without becoming mean or cold.

We talk saying yes when you don’t want to, fearing conflict, over-apologizing, setting boundaries, and learning how to be honest without abandoning yourself. I’m not on the other side of this, I’m actively working on it right now. What situations do youpeople please in the most? Let me know so I’m not alone

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