Feminist Wellness

Join me this week as I show you how our current experiences of safety and danger are particularly poignant in relation to our nervous system responses. I’m sharing various remedies and antidotes that you can start practicing when you notice yourself getting activated. You’ll be able to use this framework to unpack your experiences, to shift them with more intention, love, and gentleness for yourse...

Join me this week as I break down the thought work protocol and show you how to use it to create an intentional protocol, to decide ahead time how you want to feel and what actions you’ll take from there. You’ll be able to see how grasping at false control is causing you so much pain and suffering, and I’m offering a set of guiding questions you can use to start releasing your desire to control th...

Join me this week as I show you why we want things to feel certain and within our control. During times like these, when our physical state is being threatened, it especially makes sense to find yourself feeling a whole spectrum of emotions about wanting other people to behave in a specific way. That said, practicing the tools and thought work protocol that I teach here on the podcast will help yo...

The thought work protocol that I use to stay grounded and in control of my own mind, and that you can use in your own life too, regardless of the circumstances. Panicking and letting your brain freak out has negative consequences on your body, so learning to get comfortable with the fact that life is uncertain will help you bring more peace to yourself and the people around you. Get full show note...

Join me this week to slowly, gently heal your perfectionist thinking, to start creating a new relationship with yourself. We’re always going to encounter situations where our inner perfectionists are screaming at us with deafening criticisms, but I’m showing you how to start to bring awareness to your thinking and change your story to, maybe, even meet your perfectionist thoughts with love. Get fu...

Join Victoria for a special episode in which she addresses the ways to shift your thinking to reflect the way you want to show up in the world in this moment of worldwide stress and panic. Find easy tools that you can use right away to help you feel less worry and more alignment. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/bonus-podcast-episode-1-covid-19-corona-regul...

In this moment of global anxiety and worry about the novel Coronavirus, Victoria Albina, NP, MPH talks about how to support your nervous system to keep stress and sympathetic activation/fight or flight at bay and to keep your immune system working optimally by giving your body the love it needs. Tune in for helpful advice, simple breathing techniques and the grounding you need in this complex mome...

Join me this week to finally get off the perpetual hamster wheel that perfectionist thinking keeps us on, to distinguish this habit from being goal-oriented and ambitious, and to know if this is something that’s driving you in your day-to-day life. Make sure to tune in next week as I give you my top tips to start healing from these paralyzing thought patterns! Get full show notes and more informat...

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the show, Victoria will be giving away FOUR sets of her organic essential oil rollers! Visit victoriaalbina.com/giveaway to enter! Mentioned in this episode: Join The Shift today! You cancel plans with yourself the moment someone else needs something. You say yes when everything in you means no. You have watched yourself do it and been genuinely bewildered. T...

Listen in this week to discover how you can start to undo and unravel the cycle of intergenerational codependency, to start the process of loving yourself unconditionally, and to know there is no moral failing or shame in having these experiences. I’m sharing the tools and tips that I used so that you can start practicing them too. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalb...

I’ve talked about codependent behaviors in terms of autonomy and interdependency here, but today I’m taking a slightly different approach. This tendency is really sneaky and can be so subtle that it’s hard to see in yourself, so I’m here to get nerdy, as always, to define terms and help you identify if you’re showing some of these signs so you can start working through them and shift your thinking...

Today, I’m sharing the secret key to having the best relationships for you , why giving big love to and embracing your ‘shadow side’ is so crucial to your healing, and how working through difficult relationships is the way out of unhealthy relationship cycles. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/53 Mentioned in this episode: Join The Shift today! You cancel pl...

Why would you want to feel love towards someone who has wronged or failed you? This week, I want to show you the power of choosing unconditional love to thrive and to empower yourself , because the science proves that ruminating on upsetting thoughts negatively affects not only your mental wellness, but your physical body too. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.c...

Join me this week to discover how you can show up as your own best friend, best ally, and best accomplice by building more self-compassion into your life. This process is key to your deep and lasting healing, to understand the habitual thoughts that are driven by your nervous system, and to live with intention. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/51 Mentioned...

We’re often too quick to jump over any negative feeling that comes up because we’re human, and that’s okay, my love. My goal today is to remind you that bypassing these feelings can’t bring you the changes you want for your life and to, instead, give you a powerful way to start the healing process with love and compassion for yourself. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victori...

Join me this week to start living into your fullest expression of your highest self, which will require discomfort in the short-term, but guaranteed joy and growth in the long-term. I’m sharing how you can start using these tools to start seeking ways to understand where you might be holding onto beliefs that aren’t serving you, so you can start living your life intentionally. Get full show notes...

Lots of clients come to me for help in finding their passion or purpose, and I know this perpetual search can feel exhausting. Too many of you aren’t living on your own terms, having been taught to do what your parents think is right, or what society has told you is acceptable. This leaves you stressed, lost, confused, and most of all, it’s affecting your body. My goal this week is to help you fin...

This week, I’m showing you how to set and meet your goals for 2020, while identifying and letting go of the stories that are acting as barriers to your dream life. We can’t erase our inner scripts from childhood or traumas, but we can change our relationship to them with thought work. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/47 Mentioned in this episode: Join The S...

This world needs you: not the person that you are when you’re putting everyone else first, but the unapologetic you. So I’m here to share the wish I have for you in 2020 and beyond, and to remind you of the wonderful human being that you are. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/46 Mentioned in this episode: Join The Shift today! You cancel plans with yourself...

Join me on the podcast this week for some help in bringing your “I wish” statements to the forefront of your consciousness, and to discover where they’re holding you back. Once we are clear on our unhelpful thought patterns, then we can begin to offer our brains something more useful. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/45 Mentioned in this episode: Join The S...

Join me on the podcast this week to discover how to break the cycle of viewing everything on the horizon through a negative lens and stop worrying for good. I’m sharing the tools to help you gain awareness of how worry is affecting the quality of your life in the present, as well as a step-by-step process to rationalize the circumstances of your life and take the effective action required to feel...

Join me on the podcast this week do discover why worry is always optional, how we subconsciously use worry as a buffer, and what you can do to recognize when your worrying is stopping you from taking the action that could actually help your problem. And be sure to tune in next week for part two, where I’ll be covering the thought work required to stop worrying for good. Get full show notes and mor...

Join me on the show this week as I show you how to set yourself up to do the next right thing, and remind you how failing on purpose is a vital skill to cultivate. This process is one of the deepest forms of self-care and healing we can do, so I hope you try it out. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/42 Mentioned in this episode: Join The Shift today! You can...

Listen in this week, my love, and discover how to set boundaries for yourself at this magical, yet stressful, time of the year. I’m discussing why it’s always okay to excuse yourself when you’re getting uncomfortable, and how to set boundaries that feel comfortable, allowing you to be your best, calmest, most self-aware self throughout the holidays. Get full show notes and more information here: h...

This week, I’m sharing the process that I’ve used to take the leap in creating this show for you, and how I’ve learned to invite failure into my life every single day. We can learn to love ourselves in such deep ways when we practice failing time and again, and so I want you to experience the most remarkable failures that will actually help you achieve your goals. Get full show notes and more info...