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 and I hope this finds you doing so well. This week I had the intention of talking with you about the nervous system and regulation.

And right now, given what's going on in the world, the racist murders in Buffalo in California,

the murder of children and teachers in their school in Texas, plus the ongoing war in Ukraine, the attacks on women's rights, reproductive

rights, trans, and LGBT-plus rights during a continuing global pandemic, I believe it is important, vital, really, to pause

and to acknowledge these absolutely horrifying heartbreaking occurrences,

particularly the wildly unnecessary and terrible loss of life that has occurred in the last two weeks and I wanted to take a moment

to pause because the collective suffering and the specific suffering of those families who've lost loved ones,

those children, elders, those black people, Asian people, Latinos, those humans who are no longer here on this planet.

And the families left to grieve them. All of us who are left to grieve them.

Our pain matters.

And while these mass shootings are horrifying,

they're also sadly no longer shocking.

It's no longer surprising that these atrocities continue to happen in a country where the gun lobby has more power than voters do. And while of course I believe deeply that

systemic reform is needed that massive shifts, not just in gun laws but in the

ways we relate to one another as humans is deeply

deeply needed today. I'm not here to talk about that specifically, but

rather to talk about how we think about process and sit with this level of grief, this level of tragedy.

And what I want to say is many things, I want to say so many things, and it starts

with saying this. The purpose of thought work is not to make us feel better.

The purpose of thought work is not to ignore what's happening, what's real,

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