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. It looks like spring has sprung at least for now and I'm so delighted by the

warmer air the birds are coming back.

That just feels so good.

This week, I want to talk about something that has been a huge part of my life,

which is the mind-body connection. From childhood I knew that if I was

sad or grumpy or had a lot of feels I'd get a tummyke But I didn't understand it with any more depth than that because, well, I was a children's.

Having spent the first 30 years of my life sick with digestive issues that rocked my world

and the intermittent depression and anxiety that so often go along with digestive issues,

I dedicated my life to learning how to heal the body.

I studied herbal medicine and became a family nurse practitioner and while working as a primary

care provider, I studied holistic and functional medicine

and got into the nitty gritty of root cause-based medicine because I wanted to help people who were

sick like I had been and who weren't getting the help they needed from

alopathic Western medicine. In my own healing process, I came to understand just how real my

girlhood knowing about the mind-body connection is,

and that there is no real, sustainable lasting healing if we are focused on either the mind or the body as though they're not just

connected but in many ways one in the same there is an information information super highway from your gut, from your body to your mind and

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