This week on the Full of Beans podcast, Han is joined by Brea Cannady. Brea is the founder of PREPÆRE™, a platform focused on integrating mental health safeguards into cosmetic care. Her work challenges the aesthetic industry to take emotional wellbeing seriously by creating tools and resources that support patients before treatment ever begins.

Through PREPÆRE™, she advocates for better standards, safer conversations, and responsible care pathways that protect both patients and practitioners. Her mission is rooted in lived experience, deep research, and a refusal to accept the status quo.

Together, we explore:

• What Body Dysmorphic Disorder really is
• The risks of using surgery as a solution to psychological distress
• Why cosmetic procedures can worsen BDD symptoms
• Healthy vs. harmful motivations for aesthetic treatments
• How Prepaere empowers both clients and clinics for safe comestic treatments
• The need for psychological safety and better regulation in aesthetic medicine

Timestamps:

• 00:34 – Brea's personal experience with BDD
• 03:18 – Brea's experience of cosmetic surgery
• 10:05 – Misconceptions about BDD & body image
• 14:30 – Can surgery ever be the solution?
• 19:35 – Addiction to appearance-based control
• 24:22 – When “self-care” becomes reliance
• 31:00 – What should be the clinician’s role?
• 35:40 – Introducing the Prepaere tool

Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of body dysmorphic disorders, eating disorders and cosmetic surgery.

Resources & Links:

• Email: [email protected]
• PREPÆRE™ Instagram
• Brea's LinkedIn
• PREPÆRE™ Website

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