Ep #134: Catastrophizing and Reparenting
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
One pattern I see in all of my clients (and even myself in those moments where I’m not checking my thoughts) is the tendency to catastrophize. Tune in this week to discover how to reparent yourself with love and compassion, so you can break free from this cycle, find the middle path, and catch yourself when your brain tries to throw you back into catastrophe.
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| 0:00.0 | This is feminist wellness and I'm your host nurse practitioner functional medicine |
| 0:11.1 | expert and life coach Victoria Albina. I'll be full heart. Welcome my love let's get started. |
| 0:26.7 | Hello hello my love I hope this finds you doing so well. I am really enjoying the end of summer, getting my garden in order, |
| 0:38.9 | really soaking up these last hot summer days. I've also been really loving the new webinars and |
| 0:47.4 | workshops I've been putting together for you all. I did one about somatics |
| 0:51.8 | recently I did one about perfectionism which was a whole new take on it for me and it's just been such a delight |
| 0:58.6 | Really every day I wake up and I'm like I created a job for myself like I built this thing and it's just I just |
| 1:09.1 | feel so grateful that I get to do this that I get to coach my amazing clients that I get to do this, that I get to coach my amazing clients, that I get to talk to you all every week to do these workshops and these webinars and to keep studying what I love, to coach my clients in Anchor, which is just such a beautiful space to hold |
| 1:26.8 | and build that container with and for them. It's a magical life and I'm really grateful. |
| 1:34.0 | And I've been thinking a lot about the gratitude that I live in these days. |
| 1:40.0 | And if you've listened to the show before, if you know my work, you know I'm not one of those like positive vibes only kind of people. |
| 1:47.2 | I deeply and truly believe that life is 50% suffering and 50% joy and that when we fully inhabit one we hold and create space to |
| 1:57.6 | inhabit the other. And so I've been thinking a lot about the gratitude and joy I've been living in, which is, you know, in sharp relief with a lot of my life. |
| 2:09.3 | When I lived in the thought patterns we talk about in cod dependent perfectionist and people-pleasing cycles. |
| 2:16.4 | And one of the things I used to do all of the time, and my brain still starts to do this as well, right? |
| 2:23.6 | My brain hasn't been replaced, I just learned to manage it. |
| 2:27.6 | And one of the things I used to do in this pattern I see all the time |
| 2:31.5 | and my clients is catastrophizing. |
| 2:35.0 | So something small goes wrong or could potentially go wrong |
| 2:39.5 | and sometimes like nothing's gone wrong at all, |
| 2:42.3 | but our brains spin a tail of the actual worst possible scenario, |
| 2:49.3 | the catastrophe that is waiting just around the corner. So maybe you see a rash on your arm and |
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