Ep #103: Meditation Doesn’t Work for Everyone
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Tune in this week to discover why dropping into your emotions and body can feel dangerous, and why the frame in which you think about meditation might be making your experience of it even more excruciating. I’m showing you what you may need if meditation isn’t working for you right now, and the alternatives you can try instead to ease into the practice of building up mindfulness.
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| 0:00.0 | This is feminist wellness and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert and life life coach, Victoria Albina. |
| 0:14.0 | I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism, and codependency, |
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| 0:21.0 | Welcome, my love. Let's get started. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. I am really delighted to talk with you today about |
| 0:36.2 | something I love which is a meditation but first I'd love it if you could head on |
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| 1:18.0 | So I'd sure talk a lot about mindfulness, about how vital and healing awareness is as a first step towards our |
| 1:26.8 | healing and how much better my life feels when I am present, really deeply present and mindful of my own thoughts, the sensations and emotions in my body, when I'm in touch with me. |
| 1:40.0 | So you might imagine that I'm a huge proponent of meditation, |
| 1:43.2 | and you wouldn't be wrong, but I haven't always been. |
| 1:46.5 | And what we're talking about today is that meditation is not for everyone at all times, and it's a really important topic to discuss as each of us learns what our own individual |
| 2:00.0 | particular special to you unique way is to get to the healing and growth you so desire. |
| 2:08.9 | The other day I was talking with a client, Talia, in my six-month program, and she was distraught, really beating herself up because |
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