This is feminist wellness and I'm your host nurse practitioner functional medicine

expert and life coach Victoria Albina.

I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism, and codependency,

so you can live from your beautiful heart.

Welcome, my love. Let's get started.

Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well.

And I hope if you live in the northern hemisphere,

you are staying warm.

My family keeps taunting me, sending me videos of them

on the beach back home in Argentina whilst I live in a snow globe.

I feel like every time I turn around it's snowing and then I shovel it and that it's snowing. I shovel it and it's snowing.

And then I shovel it and it's snowing.

Nature's giving me really good workouts this winter.

Which is great because I really miss the gem. So there's something.

So today I want to talk about buffering and when buffering well, isn't buffering at all, but rather a form of deep self-love.

I understand so deeply why we buffer or seek to push away our emotions to cover them up instead

of feeling them.

I did it most of my life.

I know it so well.

Listen, most of us aren't taught how to feel our feelings, how to manage them, or even how to

understand or begin to relate to them.

Fewer of us grow up knowing how to locate them in our bodies

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