Unconscious and Rewriting Old Narratives: The Battle to Lose & Gain on GLP-1

 

Uncovering the Unconscious and Rewriting Old Narratives: The Battle to Lose & Gain on GLP-1

When I finished reflecting on Frantz Fanon’s work, I realized that reclaiming my power meant I also had to understand what was powering me. That’s when Dr. Sigmund Freud’s insights on the unconscious stepped forward — not as a clinical framework, but as a mirror.

Freud taught that much of what drives us lies beneath awareness: buried emotions, unprocessed experiences, and the internalized scripts we carry from childhood. At first, I resisted this idea. I wanted to believe I was fully in control. But my body knew otherwise. My anxiety, cravings, and exhaustion weren’t random; they were messages — the language of my subconscious asking to be heard.

Through my GLP-1 journey, I began to feel this in real time. As my body recalibrated, it made space for deeper awareness. When the appetite quieted, the inner dialogue grew louder — and I started hearing the why behind my patterns. Freud’s work taught me not to silence those whispers, but to decode them.

He believed that what we repress will eventually express itself — in behavior, emotion, or even illness. That truth hit me hard. Every time I avoided confrontation, swallowed disappointment, or downplayed my needs, my body carried the weight. Healing meant not only changing habits but listening to the messages stored in my nervous system.

Freud helped me redefine “mistake.” There are no failures in the psyche, only data. My choices — even the painful ones — were my unconscious attempting to resolve something unfinished. And when I finally began to listen without shame, my healing deepened.✨ Reflection Corner

Ask: What emotions or memories do I tend to avoid — and how do they show up in my body?

Journal: When my body reacts with tension or craving, what might it be trying to communicate?

Meditate: Breathe into that space of resistance. Imagine listening with compassion, not judgment.

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Next in the Think Tank: Carl Jung

After exploring Freud’s lens on the unconscious, I wanted to see how these internalized pressures connect to the wider world — the cultural, ancestral, and symbolic forces that shape us. That’s where Jung stepped in. He didn’t just expand on Freud’s ideas; he introduced the collective unconscious — a shared reservoir of archetypes, myths, and inherited wisdom. Jung helped me understand that the patterns I noticed inside myself weren’t just mine; they were part of a larger human story, a bridge between personal psyche and ancestral memory.