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. I remember the day I stopped trying to convince other people. They

were wrong. I was studying in the nurse practitioner program at UCSF and I was reviewing my notes at a

cafe in San Francisco before going to my clinical rotation in the mission and

some dude started talking to me and said something totally

wildly incorrect about the science I was studying.

And I felt that old urge inside me, that deep desire to let him know exactly just how totally very much fully 110% wrong he was.

And then something shifted.

There was this palpable shift inside me. In that moment, I just

didn't care if he was wrong and thus thought that I was wrong about science I totally knew more about than he did.

It was like all those months of meditation and self-awareness and journaling and plant medicine and working on my relationship with myself just clicked.

It was like magic. Magic many months in the making for sure. I just didn't care. In that moment I didn't make

his opinion mean anything about me in this powerfully embodied way. And it felt like I had found this firm new

footing on solid ground, like I was deeply connected to my own internal anchor of

my knowing. my own internal anchor, a deep internal stability.

Long before the phrase was commonplace, I had simply ran out of fucks to give about what this stranger thought about me.

And the deep relief, calm and centeredness I felt,

whoa, so powerful.

I can bring that somatic memory up from the depth of my bones.

I felt so grounded in me that everything else was really just everything else.

Truly not about me, not my problem, not my business, not

mine in this deep and powerful way that has opened up so much connection with my authenticity and my belief in me, which has slowly, slowly,

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