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At nearly every booth inside BeautyCon, attendants often reached for your cell phone, prompting you to take selfies with a specialized hashtag. From #NYXCosmetics to #LoveHealthySexyHair, hashtags were everywhere. And at Loccitane's booth, makeup fans couldn't grab freebies without posting a photo to their own social media with, of course, a hashtag.

Cox is concerned with her fans' obsession with being picture-perfect for social media.

\"I get worried that people are on Instagram and seeing these people that are [Face]tuned and surgically altered and think that’s what they have to do to be successful and they don’t even know the side-effects often times,\" she said. \"When you see someone trans, they think it’s all about surgery. There’s a lot of non-trans people who have way more surgery than I have.\"

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\"I love the idea of doing things to enhance yourself, if it’s about becoming more yourself. But thinking that's what you have to do to be successful...\" Cox trails off, looking away.

Turning abruptly back, Cox asked rhetorically, \"What is the work we’re doing on the inside?\"

The transgender activist has no shame in talking about how she's working to heal the trauma she's faced in her life, she said, from being black, trans and from a working-class background.

It's why she frequents a somatic therapist, which is a type of therapy that marries the mind and body to ease stress, anxiety and other issues related to trauma and abuse. She also has a daily practice of gratitude.

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\"When I wake up, I write down five things that I’m grateful for and five things I’m manifesting,\" she detailed.

It's worked for her.

\"In 2013 -- that was a magical year -- I wrote down I wanted a book deal, I wanted an Emmy, and I wanted a speaking agent and a college tour. All of them happened,\" she boasted, noting that her book hasn't hit the shelves yet because \"it's complicated.\"

\"And when there’s a service element, the universe says, 'OK. This is it,'\" Cox added, moving slightly to the left as another server whizzed by.

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