Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 179, out of our heads and into our bodies, an interview with Victoria Albina.

Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look

forward to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista

St. Germain.

Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm sure you can hear it in my voice, but y'all, I have a cold. It doesn't seem to want to go away. I even waited to record this intro as long as I could with hopes that my voice would sound somewhat better. Thankfully, it was a little bit better when I did the interview with Victoria. But

here we are. It is fall. I caught my 15-year-old's cold, so it is what it is. So I had a little bit of

trouble deciding on a title for this episode because Victoria and I really did cover so much more

than just the importance of getting out of our heads and back into our

bodies. But that is something I really want you to take away from this episode because I think

so many of us are just walking around. Like, it just reminds me of that old cold commercial.

And of course, it's so relatable right now because I have a cold where you don't even feel connected to your body. It's like your head is a balloon on a string, right? And you're just kind of like carrying it around. That's what a lot of us are doing, especially in grief, because we have all of these emotions. And it's not a very comfortable place to be if we haven't

really learned the skills of what it's like to stay in our body and it's so easy to try and

escape our bodies and get into our heads and think about everything, overthink about everything

and not feel. And so that is just a portion of what Victoria and I cover in this episode.

I really hope you will enjoy it. And with that, we'll jump in. All right, Victoria Albina, I am happy

you are here. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much. I am delighted to be here.

You know what's so funny to me is that there are actually

many mutual people in our lives, but one particular person who we both work with, who I swear

has been saying to each one of us in our ears for, I don't know, three years, you should be friends.

Right. You have so much in common. You would help each other's people. You should have Victoria on your podcast. And I don't know how long I've been thinking about it, but I'm glad that I finally listened to that person's little voice. Me too. And that person knows who she is. And she's a complete dream boat. And we're so lucky to have her. And I'm so happy to be your friend and to be on your show and to talk to your amazing listeners.

Thank you. Thank you. I'm glad to have you. What you do is so different. It probably doesn't feel

all that different to you because I'm sure it's just what you do all the time. But I do think that

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