212. Codependency, Coaching, and Your Nervous System: A Conversation with Victoria Albina
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Many women have the sense that they’re not good enough or worthy enough unless other people think they are. Why? Because society has taught us that we need to put everyone else’s needs before our own, and so we develop some codependent thought patterns to evaluate our worth. Instead of learning to validate ourselves, we rely on outside approval to feel good about ourselves.
This week, I’m talking to Victoria Albina, nurse practitioner-turned-life coach, about how this codependency affects our nervous systems and can impair our brains’ abilities to function. Tune in to find out how to regulate your nervous system, how to stop people-pleasing and seeking external validation, and how to believe that you’re already worthy - starting today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 0:29.8 | How are you all doing? |
| 0:32.5 | I just got back from clutch college live in Dallas, Texas, |
| 0:38.6 | where I had never been before. |
| 0:40.8 | And clutch college live was amazing. We talked all about big goals for 2022. So many chickens doing so many amazing things. And honestly one of my favorite moments was afterwards one of my master coaches and advanced certification |
| 0:56.1 | feminist coaching graduates who was there to help teach said to me, your clients are smart. |
| 1:03.4 | She was like, those jigas were like, keep me on my toes. |
| 1:07.3 | I had to coach at the highest level all weekend long. |
| 1:09.8 | And I was like, that's right, that's how we roll around here right life coaching is for |
| 1:14.8 | everyone including the whip smart so I just thought that was funny because I'm |
| 1:19.8 | always talking about how coaching is, you know, practical philosophy and modern day philosophy and well, there's |
| 1:27.6 | modern actual philosophy or academic philosophy but this is modern practical philosophy and that my students I think are so smart and |
| 1:35.2 | are operating. I think we teach and we coach in the collection on this podcast at such a high |
| 1:41.2 | level of sophistication and I definitely was kind of told early on that you know I might need to like |
| 1:47.2 | dumb things down and I was like I don't think so. I don't think that's how we're going to do this. |
| 2:01.6 | I have faith that people can understand complex ideas and sophisticated thinking when it's explained clearly and made relevant to their lives. That's what we do around here, so I just want to give yourself a high-five for being someone |
| 2:05.7 | who not only wants to think about and work on yourself, but at such a sophisticated and high level. This work is hard and you're here doing it. |
| 2:16.5 | So today we are talking to one of the funniest people I know and that's saying something |
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