Booby Trap: A Girlfriend's Guide to Breaking Free & Healing From Breast Implant Illness

by Michelle Moore

Overview

Are you living a fraction of the life you were meant to live? Feeling anxious and depressed? Trying to get through your days with no energy, suffering with chronic pain, brain fog, muscle weakness, joint aches, migraines, severe fatigue, stomach issues, urinary tract infections and more. Have you spent your waking hours bouncing around the health care system? Paying for expensive tests, only to be told there's nothing wrong, it's all in your head.

Your symptoms are not in your head. Very likely they are emanating from your breasts. Specifically, your breast implants. Because whether implants are saline or silicone, they all have silicone shells. And, that silicone, made with over 40 toxic chemicals, can make you very sick. This sickness is called breast implant illness. And hundreds of thousands of women suffer as neurotoxic, cytotoxic, and carcinogenic chemicals slowly and chronically poison them from inside their bodies 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Disrupting their endocrine systems, overstimulating their immune systems, and clogging their detoxification pathways.

But there is a solution: breast implant explanation. Often, it's step one to improving your health.

This book is for you if your breast implants are making you sick, or if you had your breast implants removed and you're on the long road to recovery, or even if you don't have breast implants, but you would like to know the risks. I wrote it because my breast implants made me debilitatingly sick, and it took me way too long to figure that out. In it I share the most valuable information I learned through my healing that, no matter where you are on this journey with breast implant illness, can help you heal, too. Practical information that will make a difference. The mind, body and spirit approach that helped me get my life back. Because the heal is real and it's within your reach once you remove the toxic poison from your body.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781667859262
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	11/14/2022
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Michelle Moore is a writer, brand specialist, public relations practitioner, model, and pageant titleholder. When she wears her day-job crown, she is a partner at brand activation agency Involve, as well as president of More Marketing Communications—specializing in health, wellness, and fitness. In 2002, she was crowned Mrs. Ohio America and went on to earn her spot in the Top 10 at Mrs. America. This visibility led to her co-starring role in an episode of MTV's Made as a Made coach for a pageant competitor. Five years later, Michelle headed back to the stage to win the title of Ohio's Perfect Woman and then went on to win the national title becoming the first America's Perfect Woman. With her modeling start at 17, she has been featured in numerous campaigns, including being in the Carol Wior Swimwear calendar, on jeans hang tags for Express and having her legs hang over the New York Stock Exchange for DSW when it went public. She holds a B.A., Journalism, from The Ohio State University and lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface v

Introduction vii

Part I What Is Breast Implant Illness?

1 You are neither alone nor crazy 3

2 Mystory 6

3 My breast implant illness symptoms 11

4 Things you've probably never heard about breast implants 15

5 Let's talk about breast implant illness 20

Part II Thinking about Removing Your Breast Implants?

6 Are my implants really making me sick? 31

7 You've decided to explore explantation… now what? 37

Part III You've Decided to Explant

8 Choosing the right surgeon for you 45

9 Examining and adjusting your mindset so you can heal 50

10 It's okay if you don't have a definitive answer; it gives you the chance to have more faith 58

Part IV You have an Explant Surgery Date… from Preparation to Surgery, Going through the Process

11 The power of prayer 63

12 Things to do, buy, download, and create before surgery 66

13 The explant process 71

Part V Healing in the Months Immediately Following Surgery

14 Healing 83

15 Exercise is an important ingredient to healing 104

Part VI Healing for the Long Haul… Mental and Other Aspects that Make a Difference

16 Mindset matters so watch your language 113

17 Resisting the pressure to be perfect 117

18 Your new normal will be a good normal 121

19 A word about Botox 123

20 A word about your monthly cycle 126

21 Expect that you can 130

22 Gratitude for the people in your life that expect you to be you 133

23 Lessons learned along my breast implant illness journey 135

24 Pay it forward 140

25 What I love about my new "old" breasts 144

26 Quotes for self-acceptance, empowerment, and healing 146

27 Make your comeback better than your setback 150

28 The heal is real 152

Part VII My Unique Challenges, Supports, and Gifts

29 My journey to heal my neurologic symptoms 157

30 Insight into breast implant illness from my husband's perspective 162

31 The gift of breast implant illness 167