amanda savage brown, who wrote a book about her own implant removal journey, now helps patients handle. >> i help them reconnect with their values that are in their heart, deep down, under what society has prescribed to us. we will lose touch with what matters to us whenever we're so busy measuring up and keeping an external vigil and holding things in our hand, an instagram feed. >> reporter: for almost a decade, monica roman struggled to breathe deeply. it started after she first got her breast implants in 2013 at just 21 years old. >> seeing so many people on tv and on social media having implants, it just made it so normalized to the point where i wasn't thinking enough about it. wasn't thinking enough about my decision on putting them in. >> reporter: but as the years went on, monica felt her health worsening. >> one of the biggest issues was that i never felt like i could take a full, proper, deep breath. and along with that, i had this feeling of an elephant sitting on my chest. >> reporter: around the same time, monica became more mindful of what went into her body. ultimately