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

expert and life coach Victoria Albina. I'll be full heart. Welcome, my love. Let's get started.

Connection is a vital ingredient for a healthy, happy human life.

As humans, we are pack animals. We depend on one another and

our connections with other humans, with plants, with nature, with our

nervous system,

lift us up, can lead us along the road to health,

wellness, healing, whatever those words mean to you in this moment.

Our relationships with others can be uplifting and fun

and can be safe havens in tougher times.

And it's so important to learn how to be in relationship as autonomous humans

who have our own backs, who can take care of ourselves and come together to co-regulate our nervous systems, to connect

with others in interdependent ways, ways that honor our nervous systems, our

attachment systems, ourselves, rather than giving ourselves away through codipendent thought habits.

This week I am delighted to share episode 29, codipendent thinking.

It's the first in a three-part series in which we are diving together into these topics of co-dependence, independence, autonomy, mutuality. In co- codependence, one or both partners lose sight of who they are as individuals

and base how they feel, their story about their own worth and value as animals. They base their sense of self and they. Me, I did this for most of my life, right? I based what I thought of me, how well I thought of me, my self-regard. I based that on how someone else was

responding to me, whether they were reading my mind and doing what I wanted them to do without my telling them,

whether they were meeting my unspoken needs that I wasn't meeting for myself.

And these days, things are really different. I have reclaimed this sense of interdependence in my life.

Not fully, I'm a human, I have all sorts of moments of insecurity and complexity.

And I know now that I can stand on my own two feet and have my own back,

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