In this conversation, MG McCullough unravels the deeper implications of Botox and cosmetic injectables through the lens of classical Chinese medicine. She invites us to consider how the interruption of natural disease progression may impact our physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
Drawing from ancient principles, she speaks to the nature of pathology, the cost of suppressing expression, and the cultural narratives that have made aging something to hide rather than honor. Through this exploration, listeners are encouraged to return to the body with reverence, to face time with courage, and to see beauty not as a fixed ideal—but as something that breathes, moves, and evolves.
Botox and injectables, though normalized in modern aesthetics, interrupt the body’s natural defenses and disrupt the wei qi—the body’s exterior protective field.
Chinese medicine teaches that disease moves through the body in stages; when we interfere with this process, we may trap pathology deeper within.
Emotions are not just mental events—they are embodied experiences. When we freeze the face, we may inadvertently freeze feeling.
Beauty, from a classical perspective, is a reflection of internal harmony—not surface perfection.
The overemphasis on youth reflects a cultural resistance to the inevitability of time, which in turn creates emotional and spiritual disharmony.
True healing is not cosmetic; it is an unfolding—a remembering of who we are beneath cultural projections.
Accepting aging is not resignation, but restoration—a return to a more natural way of being in the body and in the world.
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