We've all done it. We've all heard ourselves say, oh, I'm the kind of person who doesn't eat vegetables, who doesn't work out, who doesn't finish what I started, who's always late, who doesn't drink water who always procrastinates

who gets angry at that drop of a hat who is always anxious who is a workaholic

who fill in the blank,

with a negative proclamation about our history and habits,

a negative story about who we are, stated as fact about the present and the future.

These kind of declarations keep us stuck in what has been with little room for growth. Does this habit sound familiar, my love?

If so, I promise you're not alone. I hear it so often, and I'm here to support you in seeing this habit, pausing and accepting it

so you can start to rewrite it and to build a future in which you are the boss of you and the kind of person you want to be.

You're listening to Feminist Wellness, the only podcast that combines functional medicine, life coaching, and

feminism to teach smart women how to reclaim their power and restore their health.

Here's your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert, herbalist,

and life coach, Victoria Albina.

Hello, my loves. I hope this episode finds you doing so well. I am on my way to

San Francisco this week to give a lecture about holistic approaches to mental health concerns, depression and anxiety, primarily.

I'm excited to really geek out about the science and to share the cognitive behavioral framework that I share with y'all here on the feminist wellness

podcast and the thought management protocol that I use to help folks and myself to change our thoughts to change our feelings and thus to change our entire experience of the world.

I'll also be talking about the magical power of breath work meditation to help us transcend our stories of pain and

suffering to shift our relationship to our childhood wounds, our mother and

father wounds, our witch wounds for those of us holding that story.

Oh, story I have held myself.

And I'll be talking more about our wounds,

how to heal them in coming episodes,

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