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.

Hello hello my love I hope this finds you doing so well you can probably hear the birds chirping behind me. I'm currently in

Maine on occupied Abenaki territory with my sister and

sister and her husband are here with their kiddos and it is just such a delight to be with them and to spend time time together

particularly after not really seeing each other during the pandemic.

So, feels extra, extra sweet and really nourishing and I'm really grateful for it.

I hope that you are getting to spend time with

chosen family, family of origin if that's your thing and whomever you may be spending

time with I hope that you are taking the time to take good care of you,

to regulate your beautiful nervous system, to attend to honor and re-parent your inner children, all of your inner family.

That is my hope and wish for you this beautiful summer.

This week on the show, I am just beyond delighted to share with you a conversation I had on the needy

show with Mara Glatzel. She is so phenomenal and we had so much fun. We had such a great conversation. We talked about our

favorite themes here on feminist wellness, co-dependent perfectionist in people

pleasing thinking, and we talked about how I use thought work to take care of myself.

We spoke at length about the act and the art of reclaiming our empowerment over the words, thoughts, and narratives we use to describe and

create our lives. And I talked about my strategies for using thought work intentionally

and what a belief bridges and how you can incorporate that

concept into your practices if the new thought that you're creating using the

thought work protocol isn't sitting well somatically, right? So it's one of the really

important things for me when we're using thought work. We use it to recognize our habitual

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