Weight Loss Hills I’ll Die On for Women in Midlife

Hills I will die on as a dietitian when it comes to weight loss in midlife. If you've tried the calorie counting approach, the eat less, move more, and it's not working like it used to, this is the episode for you. I want to help you better understand your body and the transitions that women experience as they're aging. And these 7 hills I'll die on— this post was originally created on social media and went fairly viral, and I'm going to dive deeper into each of the 7 hills, and actually I've expanded upon several from the post. Hill number 1: 2 eggs or a protein bar is not an adequate breakfast. In my community, so many women are jumping from thing to thing. They haven't planned or prepped for their week when it comes to their food, and they're living busy lives, which leads to them either skipping their meal or eating very minimal, like a protein bar or something on the go. And the issue with this is that chronic undereating and overexercise keeps your body overproducing cortisol and also stuck in stress mode, holding on to every calorie. High cortisol can lead to more weight gain, it can lead to glucose spikes, it can lead to increased risk of autoimmune disease, it can lead to increased hormonal imbalances, and a lot more. So the other thing that it does is it increases your desire for stress eating sugary foods. You probably know that eating a lot of added sugar is not in your benefit, but what most women in our community struggle with is actually stopping themselves from the stress eating, from the sugar binging, from that cycle of eating a lot at the end of the day. And this is exacerbated when you are eating 2 eggs for breakfast or a protein bar for breakfast. That leads to an imbalance in your caloric intake. You're eating not enough calories in the first half of the day. That leads to this vicious level of cravings and out-of-control feeling when you're with food at the end of the night that leads to a lot of those habits that are essentially forms of self-sabotage. So the goal is to support your central nervous system with eating enough calories, regular meals, spacing out 3 meals per day, trying to think through the meals that you're going to have at the beginning of the week so that you're not running from thing to thing, getting enough nutrients in your diet, and recovery so that your body can actually heal, it can regulate your hormones, and it can help to lower inflammation. Women are taught to diet, but they're not often taught to nourish their bodies. We're not often taught to nourish our bodies, and then we wonder why we're so fatigued, bloated, depleted, brain fogged, not able to lose weight, and feeling awful. So the key here is really learning to nourish your body, supporting your central nervous system, and doing so in a way that decreases the stress eating and the binging on sugar later at night. Hill number 2: most women don't need large caloric deficits. They need slight caloric deficits combined with addressing insulin resistance. Here's what most doctors aren't testing: fasting insulin, which predicts your risk of insulin resistance before your glucose levels start to change, which means that your fasting insulin could be creeping up even though your fasting glucose does not seem like it's a problem. When your fasting insulin becomes higher than an 8, it means that your cells are not sensitive enough to the insulin that your pancreas is producing, which then can increase abdominal fat, fatigue, and cravings. When your insulin levels are high, it makes it very difficult for you to actually burn fat. So why does this matter? Every time that your blood sugar is spiking, your body has to release more insulin. And the insulin is— think of it as a bus driver that's carrying glucose from your bloodstream into your cells so that your body recognizes that you've you've eaten. What happens with insulin resistance is that you need more and more of those bus drivers in order for you to be able to convert glucose into your cell so that your cell recognizes that you, that you've eaten. So your body's producing more bus drivers, more bus drivers, more insulin, which is a pro-inflammatory fat-storing hormone that increases your visceral adiposity, or that, that belly fat that so many women start to experience, especially in midlife. And as you become more insulin resistant, the belly fat accumulates more. And as you produce more bus drivers or more insulin, your cells become less responsive to them. So the more that you produce, the more that you continue to need to produce in order to get that glucose into your cell. The more that you produce, the higher your insulin goes, which increases inflammation. The blood sugar spikes themselves are increasing inflammation. And then as you become more insulin resistant, that exacerbates the inflammation. And those glucose spikes, they don't just impact insulin, they impact your mitochondria, which are the powerhouse of your cells. And you need to have healthy mitochondria in order to be able to have healthy hormone production. They drive chronic inflammation, they increase hormonal imbalances, and they can impact your organs like your heart in ways that lead to a number of symptoms like cravings, fatigue, poor sleep, mood imbalances, but they also increase your risk of every single chronic disease. I recently interviewed Dr. Tim Spector, so go ahead and go back to listen to that episode on the number one gut microbiome expert. He is one of the top 100 scientists in the world and one of the leading nutrition researchers focused on blood sugar, the gut microbiome, inflammation. And for so long, I have led with the three most common symptom improvements that women in our programs experience: cravings, mood swings, and fatigue. Because I've been listening to women in our community and seeing that these are the things that are commonly reported— improvements in cravings, mood swings, and fatigue. And his research conducted in tens of thousands of women supported the exact same thing. The top 3 improvements they saw were hunger, mood swings, and fatigue, um, that are the, the key improvements that they see when women shift to a glucose-focused approach to nutrition, which is the same thing that we see. And here's what happens as a secondary note Not only is it that insulin resistance makes it very difficult for you to burn fat, it increases your adipose fat, your belly fat. It also makes you more fatigued. It makes you have more cravings, and it makes you have more mood swings or predisposes you to more of them. And when those three things are happening, what does that lead you to want to do more of? It leads you to want to eat more, especially more sugary, foods or more carbohydrate-rich foods that are going to continue to make it difficult for you to lose weight. This is a specific problem that becomes more exacerbated in midlife, which leads me to hill number 3. As estrogen declines in perimenopause and menopause, the body becomes more insulin resistant and less able to combat inflammation. So this is where risk for type 2 diabetes, autoimmune disease, Alzheimer's disease, and heart disease all increase, and solely focusing on a calorie deficit approach to your nutrition will not fix this. Caloric deficits may slightly improve insulin resistance, but you could be in a caloric deficit eating a number of highly refined carbohydrates, and the old Weight Watchers approach will tell you that that's perfectly fine. But what we know based on the latest research and the work that I have been doing for the last 12 years, and my team of dietitians and I have supported tens of thousands of women in, is that as your insulin resistance is increasing from eating too many of these refined carbohydrates, it's making it that much harder for you to lose weight even when you're in a caloric deficit. And this is what so many women in our audience have experienced. This is the time that women absolutely need to shift how they eat to be blood sugar balanced and anti-inflammatory if you want to continue to feel good, to heal your body, to function well, to age well, and to thrive. The unfortunate thing for all women is that as we go through menopause, insulin sensitivity declines, meaning that you have to produce more bus drivers regardless of your diet and physical activity. As your hormones change, you become more insulin resistant. And here's where this gets sneaky. You can eat pretty clean. Most of the people, most of the women in our audience say that they eat pretty clean, but you can still have a diet that's filled with healthified ultra-processed foods that contribute to an increase in your insulin resistance. And it's not that these foods are bad— we typically call them less optimal foods— but these could be foods like your almond flour crackers, your brown rice pasta, your kids' quesadilla, your rice cake that you're having as a meal that you are incorporating throughout the day because you didn't sit down for a planned meal. And you're having almond crackers with, with hummus instead. It's not necessarily that you're eating at McDonald's and that's why you're experiencing these symptoms. Most of the time it's because you're eating fairly healthy. A lot of times these ultra-processed healthified foods— and what these foods have in common is that they have zero nutritional value, so very few nutrients that you're getting in return, micronutrients, protein, etc. And they also lead to fairly large blood sugar spikes that then lead to larger blood sugar crashes. And every time that you have a blood sugar spike where your blood sugar is going into the 150s, 160s, 170s, 180s, 190s, 200, which is common when even you're eating these healthified ultra-processed foods like brown rice pasta, what happens is that every time your blood sugar is spiking like this, it generates an immune response that's increasing your cytokine release. And these inflammatory cytokines are basically trying to protect your body, and they're perpetually triggered by these blood sugar spikes, sometimes happening once a day, every day at lunch maybe. That leads to then that 2 PM crash, because it takes your— you reach your, your peak blood sugar level typically about 1 hour after eating, and then 2 hours after eating is when you hit that crash around 2 PM, where your blood sugar levels are bottoming out, typically lower than where they started prior to that meal. That's leading you to need that afternoon pick-me-up for the coffee, for the next round of added sugar to keep you going and get that dopamine hit, whatever it is that you need as a pick-me-up, because you're still recovering from that, that afternoon glucose spike. Maybe it's happening more than once per day, or it's happening after lunch and after dinner, or it's happening in the morning and then in the afternoon. These increases are triggering this immune response that increases your cytokine release. These inflammatory cytokines are basically trying to protect your body, and they're perpetually triggered by these blood sugar spikes, never actually able to turn off their inflammatory response, leaving you in a chronically inflamed state. And new research is making this connection even stronger. The work that we have been doing and the blood sugar focus for so many years is what I've been talking to women about. And there is more and more research that's compiling about this. A study that just came out this year that I was just exposed to from my incredible friend Kelly Levac, who will be on the podcast soon, Brigid Titgemeier said that she pointed me to a study that had just come out this year showing that high fasting insulin was associated with more menopause symptoms. So not only do we become more insulin resistant through menopause, but the insulin resistance drives more of those symptoms. So for each standard deviation rise in fasting insulin, which was only about a 5.6 point increase, there was a 14% higher hazard of hot flashes and a 20% higher hazard of cold sweats. And a longer duration of these symptoms. And a person's fasting insulin levels appeared to be the strongest predictor of hot flashes, even more so than their actual BMI. Let me say that again: a person's fasting insulin levels appeared to be a stronger predictor of hot flashes than how much weight they were carrying. This explains so much of why You feel like you are eating healthy, but you're still having symptoms, and then you're not actually able to combat the issues that you're experiencing, and you're not able to see weight loss. Blood sugar imbalances create an increase in insulin resistance that leads to more inflammation, that creates more hormonal imbalances, which increase your hunger, your cravings, your mood swings, and fat gain. Because like I said, insulin increases your fat storage around your belly especially, which increases your risk of cardiovascular disease and every other chronic condition. I just presented earlier today in one of my communities on osteoporosis. There's a direct correlation between osteoporosis and diabetes. Higher levels of blood sugar increase your risk of osteoporosis. Higher levels of blood sugar increase your risk of cancer as one of the top 5 predictors of global cancer risk. So that is the— that's the, the disease risk front. Now, what can happen on the other side is that learning to eat the optimal structure for your meals, meaning not skipping your meals, not eating a yogurt cup for breakfast, not having rice cakes for your lunch or a protein bar for your breakfast. That's how you take yourself from a chaotic state to a balanced state. When throughout the entire day you feel in control, you don't have the cravings, you don't have to white-knuckle your way through the nutrition plan. You aren't constantly ping-ponging back and forth in your head 'Do I eat this? Do I not eat this? Do I eat this? Do I not eat this?' Because you're physiologically even and regulated. This is the crazy experience that a lot of women have going through our nutrition programs. For the first time in their lives, they feel like they can actually have control without needing to obsessively count calories, count macros, weigh their food, or think about their food obsessively because they have even blood sugar, which makes them feel like they have more control. I recently got an email from one of our TBC members, someone that is in the Being Collective and has been since 2025, early 2025, and she said that she had struggled her entire life with yo-yo dieting, her weight. Her mom had taken her to Weight Watchers when she was in 4th grade, and that she had tried so many different plans— Whole30, vegan, many different plans, none of them actually working for her long term. And after doing the Being Collective for a year, was able to lose 30 pounds in addition to increasing her— improving her thought patterns, her behaviors, her mood, her energy, and a number of other symptoms. And this highlights how much you can change your lifestyle and make it a true lifestyle change, but also taking a glucose focused approach that is tied to improving your insulin sensitivity, improving your inflammation levels, improving your physiological health, can lead to so many benefits on the other side, not only from a weight loss standpoint but from a relationship with food, relationship with your body, your, your energy levels, your cravings cycle, health, and other symptoms that I just addressed that we see a lot of women going through menopause actually experiencing. Okay. Hill number 4: More muscle leads to better glucose control, lower insulin resistance, and better mitochondrial health. As women age, we are more prone to muscle loss, to bone loss, to gut microbiome changes, to insulin resistance, and to chronic inflammation. And after 30, muscle loss accelerates, and it's one of the biggest drivers of aging and our risk of overall disease. So we really want to shift the focus from how much do I weigh on the scale to muscle mass, building our muscle mass, increasing our bone density so that we can decrease our risk of fractures and frailty and improving our strength over time. This is how we improve our insulin sensitivity. Muscles you could think of as a sponge that they soak up glucose. And give glucose an extra place that it can go to help with improving insulin sensitivity. It can decrease inflammation. It can improve brain health and cognitive function and so many other things that are tied to this. And so when we think about feeling good on a daily basis, feeling good in our bodies, and feeling good as we age, we have to continue to focus on building strength instead of just focusing on the number on the scale. Okay, hill number 5: testing TSH is not enough to understand your thyroid health. Thyroid plays a very important role in your metabolism, and as women age, their thyroid can do a lot of wonky things, especially after pregnancy and postpartum. It exacerbates thyroid issues. And then as women go through perimenopause and menopause, it can also lead to a lot of issues with our thyroid health. So if you have certain symptoms like a lot of fatigue, feeling cold, a sluggish metabolism, then you want to have more than just your TSH tested in order for you to understand your active and inactive thyroid hormones. So what you want to ask for is testing done for your free T3 and your free T4 levels in addition to your thyroid antibodies. When your thyroid is underperforming, this can slow down your metabolism and it can also increase your risk of high cholesterol and so much more. So understanding your full comprehensive thyroid test can help a lot in just ruling out any issues with your thyroid. And then if you find that there are issues with your thyroid, it leads to a place that you can actually address instead of continuing to feel frustrated and like nothing is working. Pill number 6, one of the most important nutrients for your metabolism, for insulin resistance, and for inflammation is dietary fiber. Why fiber? Fiber— many people are aware of the benefits of eating a high-fiber diet, but this goes beyond calories so much when you understand the science behind fiber. So fiber does a lot of things. One, mechanistically, it can increase our levels of satiety. Number two, it can delay gastric emptying, so it slows down the rate that your food is actually absorbed and moves through your intestines. It also slows down your hunger and satiety hormones. Everyone's familiar with GLP-1s at this point. Your body also naturally produces GLP-1, but there's a lot of other hormones that it produces, your hunger hormones that it produces— neuropeptide Y, leptin, ghrelin, and so many other hormones that help with regulating when you're hungry, when you're full, and our ability to actually feel satiated after a meal. So fiber helps regulate these hormones so we have a higher capacity to recognize when we feel satiated and we don't need to continue eating. Fiber also plays an enormous role in the gut microbiome by fermenting to short-chain fatty acids. Short-chain fatty acids are one of the most important parts of the gut microbiome. Most people, when they think of the gut microbiome, they just think of the bacteria, the trillions of bacteria that are living inside of your large intestine. But it's actually also the bacteria's capacity to ferment to short-chain fatty acids that have the ability to release anti-inflammatory messengers that are systemically released so that you have the ability to improve your insulin sensitivity, inflammation, and your comprehensive gut microbiome health. A lot of nutrition plans focus on low-carb or keto or other approaches, and they try to decrease your blood sugar on an in-the-moment basis without thinking about the implications of the microbiome and how we need healthy bacteria that increase our short-chain fatty acid production in order to create a long-term reduction in risk of insulin resistance and chronic inflammation. And here's what the research is showing. A new study looked at 4 different groups of people on 4 different macronutrient-controlled diets, and they tracked their fiber intake. And what they found was that a person's dietary fiber intake was the biggest predictor of weight loss and their ability to actually adhere to the dietary program. In this study, the change in fiber from baseline to 6 months was consistently retained as the strongest predictor of weight loss. More significant than the macronutrient percentage that the person was following. The highest fiber group lost the most amount of weight. The second highest fiber group lost the second largest amount of weight. So fiber was the biggest predictor of weight loss throughout this study, more significant than the macronutrient breakdown of the diet that the person was following, which is pretty incredible. Another thing that I want to highlight is that cardiovascular disease is still the number one cause of death in women. And we have to be thinking about our cardiovascular health as a whole, and that is also related to fiber. A recent study showed an association with dietary fiber intake and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in postmenopausal women. They looked at 7,000+ postmenopausal women and found that women in the highest group of fiber consumption had a 15% lower all-cause mortality, and a 31% lower cardiovascular mortality compared to the women that were eating the least amount of fiber. The mean baseline fiber intake across the population was only 15 grams daily, which is common. There is a drastically low fiber consumption across the board in the United States especially. The study found that shifting from a very low fiber intake to even just an increase to 15 to 20 grams was linked to significant improvements in survival, and the strongest mortality benefits were clustered around 25 to 29 grams of fiber per day, which is what's fairly consistent with the fiber recommendations. Although we do see incremental improvements in a number of different symptoms as women even work beyond 30 grams of fiber per day, up to 40 grams of fiber per day. The last hill I'll die on One of the biggest things sabotaging your health is your all-or-nothing mindset. If I can't do it perfectly, then I'm not gonna do it at all. Who has been there on their diet journey? I'm sure that many of you can relate. This is something that we hear very commonly in my community, the all-or-nothing trap, where you begin a new health routine, you face unexpected setbacks, you miss one day, and then you abandon the routine completely. Where you're trying to do a nutrition plan, you have one cookie, you're like, well, I already had had one cookie, so I might as well have the ice cream, the fries, the cake too, but I promise I'll be good again tomorrow. Or that voice that convinces you that if you can't fit in 3 45-minute workouts per week, then why even bother working out at all? There's a lot of information out there on the internet right now, but what we see is that there are psychological barriers keeping so many women from being consistent which is really the most important thing at the end of the day. Consistency with the behaviors that have the highest amount of research behind them. And many women that I have talked to even this past week have identified that when I ask them their most common form of self-sabotage, they know that the sugar is increasing the risk of insulin resistance, and they have the information, they're equipped with the information, but that at the end of the day doesn't stop them from eating the sugar at night once they put their kids to bed, or stress eating when they're going through something hard. And so it goes deeper than just understanding the correlation between sugar and insulin resistance, or whatever the information is on the internet. It's really about understanding your triggers, how to rebound when you get off track, having the right system, having support in order to help you reach your goals and stay consistent. And if it were as easy as a checklist, none of you would be here today. If it were as easy as consuming free information on the internet or on podcasts, there is an abundance of free information available. Never before have we had so much free information than we do today in 2026. And yet there are still so many women that are stuck without achieving their health outcomes and their goals and feeling like they're gaining more weight even though they're trying everything. Because it goes deeper than the information. The information is absolutely important, but it goes deeper than just the information. So the mindset reframe that I want you to leave with today is that something is better than nothing and progress over perfection. We jump to the most expensive interventions that we hope are going to help us, whether that's the AG1 powders, the $100 colostrum bottle, the in-depth functional nutrition tests. In my nutrition business, we run the more in-depth nutrition testing, nutrient deficiency testing, gut microbiome testing, etc. And those cost hundreds of dollars each. And I do believe so much in having a lot of information about your body, but those are not the real needle movers. And if you're jumping to those things before you're nailing the HILs that we talked about today, Avoiding the all-or-nothing trap, having enough fiber every day, focusing on your fasting insulin and, and blood sugar balanced meals, eating a large enough breakfast, not skipping meals, not eating small yogurt yo plays on the road for your meals— these are the real needle movers that have the ability to change everything about your health. So the mindset reframe that I want you to leave with again is that something is better than nothing and progress over perfection. How can I be 80% consistent? What does it take for me to be 80% consistent with the meals that I know will support my health? And then when it comes to actually losing weight in midlife, you do have to be in a caloric deficit in order to see those results. But the focus is the fact that the caloric deficit is not enough on its own if you're not also addressing fueling your body adequately to support healthy cortisol levels, having healthy insulin response so that you're not insulin resistant and increasing inflammation, and other things that can derail a lot of women when they're in long-term caloric deficits that stop working for them. Because as you restrict more and more calories, especially when you, let's say, go on a big caloric deficit diet of 800 or 1,000 calorie deficit deficit per day, it slows down your metabolism. And staying on those diets long term and yo-yo dieting with them, where you're going from a large caloric deficit to then one month later just binging on whatever, it's then a month later back to a caloric deficit, it really throws off your metabolism. So being able to focus on the things that we talked about today are the big needle movers. Being consistent 80% of the time is absolutely key. Many doctors on the internet are now starting to talk about the importance of fiber, protein, metabolic health, insulin resistance, but no one is helping you put all this together. You can read the books that confirm everything that I believe so strongly now that more doctors are getting on board, but nowhere have I seen all this information be pulled together in order to make it doable for you. And that's really my goal in my membership, The Being Collective. We help you hit the needle movers for your nutrition. Adequate calories, 30 grams of protein per meal, at least 30 grams of fiber per day, omega-3s throughout the week to help to decrease inflammation. A number of factors that we incorporate into the formula that we use in my membership, where we are creating meal plans for you every single week, my team of dietitians and I, in order to help you hit the needle movers and stay consistent while saving 2 to 3 hours per week. And there are a lot of things, like I said, that we strive for when it comes to the criteria for our meal plans. And here's the thing, if you lived in a vacuum, it would be easy to hit those goals. You could approach it like a checklist where you're like, do I have 30 grams of protein per meal? Do I have my 30 grams of fiber per day? Etc., etc. But then you factor in eating out, traveling, peer pressure, not planning ahead, not having the time to plan, and all these barriers that up making us feel bad about ourselves because it leads to us defaulting to the habits that we have always had. So what I want to help you do is stop winging it so that you actually give yourself the chance to be successful. When you stop winging it and hoping for the best, you can truly change your life. I firmly believe that structure is the key to consistency, taking you from a reactive week of stress eating late-night eating or snacking, skipped meals, too much caffeine, and feeling guilty about yourself, to a structured week where you open your refrigerator, you actually have meals that are prepared, the egg cups, the chia pudding, instead of grabbing the protein bar, you have the— you're not stress eating, you feel nourished, you're not feeling hungry, you don't have the cravings, where you're actually able to stick to something that helps you feel better. And that is exactly what the Being Collective is. It's a health framework that we have tested with 29,000 women over the last 6 years, built around implementation, science-backed nutrition, consistency, and community. And I am very excited to tell you that we have opened the doors to the Being Collective. You can officially join us this summer for the Being Collective, and here's what's inside. We have weekly meal planning done for you by myself and my team of functional nutritionists. These aren't PDFs with Meal Plans. These are— it's an interactive software system that we have invested a ton of money into. It is not AI-generated. It is a, a software that helps you adjust all of your meals to save you that time on shopping and adjust for all the needs of your family. This is built for blood sugar balance and anti-inflammatory living with criteria around fiber, protein, saturated fats, omega-3s, the number of plants per week, etc. And you can customize every weeks plan based on your family's needs. You export your shopping list to your phone, and then you can access the nutrition facts to know exactly what you're eating each day. We tell you exactly what to meal prep. We have a full meal prep list, your ingredient prep, and then the optional prep. The meals taste good. Women keep telling us, I can't believe how much my husband and kids love these meals. 700+ recipes developed by my team of dietitians and I over the last 5 years. High protein, high fiber, a variety of phytonutrients hitting all of the nutrition frameworks that we are focused on. Brigid AI, which we just launched after 6 months of training an AI model on hundreds of hours of trainings, coaching calls, Q&A guides, podcast episodes, and the protocols that I've been developing for the last 10 years. You can chat with Brigid AI in real time to troubleshoot what you're experiencing You can use it for coaching, and you can get my digital mind answering the obstacles that are holding you back. We have weekly group coaching calls led by my team of dietitians, and I— monthly ask me anything sessions. I do a session every single month where anyone can ask me any questions from the community, and people love learning that way. We have quarterly guest Q&As. Our upcoming Q&A is with Lindsay Baumgren, who's the founder of Nourish Move Love. It's a Q&A style where people learn the most because they're able to ask a wide range of questions that are addressed by our guests. We also have nutrition troubleshooting calls that I do once per month, diving into a person's health history to say, if I were your dietitian, these are the recommendations that I would make. And then we have an incredible community of women who are working on optimizing their health alongside of you so that you can feel inspired, understood, and held accountable by this incredible group of women. So if you want to join the Being Collective, this is the first time that we are fully opening the doors for you to join us and adding a monthly payment option. So previously in the Being Collective, you joined and purchased the Being Collective Kickstarter. We have now offered a monthly option. So instead of joining the Being Collective Kickstarter and paying $297 $297 for that first 4-week on-ramp. You can join the Being Collective as a member for $97 a month, every month. You cancel anytime and you get the first $297 program for free. You get the first 4-week course, meal plans, all of it for 100% free when you join us in the Being Collective at the $97 per month option or our annual offer. I would love for you to join us in the Being Collective and be alongside these other women who are optimizing their health. The health that you have today, 1 year from now, 5 years from now, it comes down to the choices that you are making today and your ability to take action, to identify when you feel stuck and like things are not working, so that we can help you get the consistency, the answers the understanding that you need in order to be consistent and successful. You can find out more at beingbrigid.com/the-being-collective. Again, that's beingbrigid.com/the-being-collective. 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