Our society teaches us in so many direct and insidious ways that there is no need to sit with painful feelings.

That you can pop a pill, have a drink, eat an indulgent food, fire off an email or a comment online, and all

those challenging feelings will just melt away. But the truth is, when you're putting walls up against feeling your feels,

when you're buffering against them trying to keep the facts of our lives at arm's length,

when we use anything external to ourselves to try to not feel, the feelings don't just disappear.

They take root deep in our bodies and will come out somehow, sometime, and will continue to drive your actions

in ways that might not be in alignment with how you want to live your life.

What you resist persists my love. So keep listening to learn how to recognize when you're numbing out, how to sit with

challenging emotions, and how to transform your life by embracing your truth.

Feeling our feelings is a way of healing, an empowering act of reclaiming our bodies,

our minds, our spirits, and our lives.

You're listening to Feminist Wellness, the only podcast that combines

functional medicine, life coaching, and feminism to teach smart women how to reclaim their power

and restore their health. Here's your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert,

herbalist and life coach Coach, Victoria Albina.

Hello, hello, my loves.

I hope this episode finds you doing very well.

I love my work.

I love helping folks learn how to manage their minds

and optimize their wellness. I'm so honored that I get to do this work on the daily.

It's humbling in the most beautiful way. My work is all about behavior change and supporting folks through both the science and psychology-based cognitive behavioral life coaching work I do and the super nerdy root cause-based functional medicine I practice. The reason why I combine life coaching

and mind management with my medical work is because I know that there is no mental

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