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 think I might just go ahead and say this every single week of the

entire summer forever and ever which is I love the summer I love the heat I actually enjoy the humidity I mean my curls don't I mean it's like

frizball City USA over here but there's product for that. I just love summer. I love the long nights and all the sunshine, all the flowers, the birds. Oh my gosh, in my yard the other day,

there were four robins, a groundhog,

two bunnies, two brown bunnies with perfect white tails,

endless squirrels.

And wait, did I mention the groundhog?

There was a groundhog!

I think he was a groundhog.

Something of that assortment.

He was so cute.

He was brown and maybe like a little footish or so tall and he kept standing on his back legs and looking around and no it was not a mere cat, though that would be.

Well, I was about to say that'd be fun, but poor guy, be a little out of sorts in the Hudson Valley.

But anyway, I just love it. I love it. Oh, my garden is exploding with color.

The dahlias, the lavenders, the peonies have gone to bed,

but they were stunning.

My day lilies are gorgeous, and it's lousy with bees out there which is of course a total dream come true.

So my darling, my perfect tender ravioli, we talked recently, you and I, about our past self, and how vital it is to give that version of us,

love, care and compassion, for doing the darn best we could with the skills and tools and mindset and somatic embodiment

we had at that moment in our lives.

Beating ourselves up for doing what we were taught to do, being who we were taught to be by our

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