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. As we keep moving into the holiday season and

towards the new year, my mind turns, as you might guess it would to the theme of all or nothing thinking.

Tis the season to overeat, over drink, to buffer like wild at holiday parties,

all to turn around and beat ourselves up the next day with that old

moralistic diet culture thinking we've been trained to think.

That has taught us that food is either good or bad, healthy, naughty, a cheat food,

that we need to guilt ourselves for having enjoyed. And following closely behind

the season of bountiful buffering, as I've come to call the holidays, is New Year's Resolution time.

Oh, the magic of New Year's.

It's this time of magical thinking that says,

Tomorrow, New Year's Day, I shall awaken a wildly new and different person with

completely different habits that I will complete with

utter perfection day after day after day without doing any thought workers

somatic practices or any setup to make that happen, right, without looking

at my goals or my values or my why. Magic, right? And that is the kind of society-wide all-or-nothing thinking.

Black and white thinking, good and bad thinking that keeps us trapped in these old stories, these old habits, where we set ourselves

up to moralize on ourselves. Quite frankly, to be mean to ourselves while not actually accomplishing

the things we actually want to accomplish.

Let's back up my beautiful nerds and recognize that while there's some societal level issues around this thinking we do need to address

To a brain that evolved in order to keep its owner safe at all costs, all or nothing good or bad thinking is...

Okay, well it's not so dumb after all, right?

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