Ep #166: Be The Cake
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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#166: Listen in this week as I invite you to embrace your perfect expression of cakey-ness and show you what it means to be the cake in your life. You’ll discover the telltale signs you’re not being the cake, and why letting other people in your life be the icing on your cake is so incredibly powerful.
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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. If you are a frequent listener to the show, then you know that I love a |
| 0:36.2 | good metaphor. And this week is no different. Today I want to talk about a saying I came up with some years ago around relationships. |
| 0:45.0 | And as always, that can mean dating or partnerships, friendships, work spouse, relationship, parent, child, |
| 0:52.0 | and that is this. I want to invite you to be the cake and to let |
| 1:00.5 | everyone else in your life be the icing on the perfect cake that is you. |
| 1:06.7 | If you are looking for someone else to be the cake, my love, you're likely to be disappointed |
| 1:14.6 | and permanently chasing someone and something else because no one else can be the cake for you. |
| 1:22.0 | So what on earth am I talking about? |
| 1:25.0 | Well, first, let me say, if you don't like cake, that's fine. |
| 1:29.0 | Sub-in pie, or Dulce Eleche or Faktura's, |
| 1:33.7 | Fakturas or Argentine pastry. |
| 1:35.6 | Oh, they're so amazing. |
| 1:38.2 | Seben, whatever you prefer. |
| 1:40.1 | Listen to this and say to yourself, |
| 1:41.9 | be the tender ravioli. you know, I love that option. |
| 1:45.4 | Honestly, really, I'm more steak than cake, but be the steak doesn't have the same ring to it, |
| 1:50.8 | so here we go with B the Cake. So my darling, we often enter into relationships |
| 1:58.5 | from our co-dependent and people-pleasing habits with a desire for that other person to fill a gaping hole in our hearts and our lives, |
| 2:08.6 | the place where our sense of self could be. We want them to do and be something for us that we are not |
| 2:15.9 | doing or being for ourselves first. We are often looking for someone to complete us, to be that magical other half that we are taught |
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