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 this week we have a super exciting guest. It is my sister. I'm going to allow her to

introduce herself and we are going to be talking today about how to raise interdependent children, what that parenting looks like, and how we can aim towards interdependence in all of our relationships.

We will also be talking about how to interdependently

reparent yourself, your inner children's.

For those of us who do not have human children,

this is an equally helpful and supportive show and my sister is completely amazing.

She's also on Zoom staring at me right now as I talk about her in the third person. Hi human who shares my pretty much

exact same face. How you doing? Hi there. Hello. Hello. Do you want to introduce yourself?

Yes, I am Maria O'Kena, but they all call me Jeannie, and I go with it.

My pronounces are she, her hers, and I live in Evanston, Illinois, which is the traditional homeland of the Council of Free Fires,

the Potawademy, a jibwe and a dawak.

I am a mama to two Vivis.

My kiddos are eight and five and I'm your sister which is very fun.

It is really fun to have you as my sister. I'm really glad you're so awesome. Oh shock. Thank you. Yeah. So for folks who are just meeting you, will you give a little background to your Cred to be other than being a mom which is like wicked

cred but you know you're a teacher you're a coach your fancy pants tell them all

about it. Sure so I was a public school teacher for about 10 years. I started in Chicago Public Schools and then we moved our family to Evanston, Illinois, so I started teaching in Evanston. I had the privilege of teaching at the school that my son attended for two years, my older

kiddo, and that was super-dever fun. So in the course of working as a teacher, I learned just a lot about children a lot about families worked a lot with

parents and with kids through conflict through tough spots through you know celebrations

I got to see so many different ways to parent kiddos and all the different ways that parenting

can look like and hearing from my own students because sometimes they would, they go to school

and they share the dirty laundry just like for anyone out there who is just in school,

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