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 Leo season is soon upon us.

I felt compelled to say that because I am very much a Leo

as you've heard me say 4,000 times

as a Leo is want to say 4,000 times and I just love Leo season.

I was making the music, I do breath work with the folks in Anckered every month and with the alumni and I make these

playlists that are a pride and joy for me. It's so much fun and I was making a

very raucous and exciting one for Leo's season for August because duh, right?

It's what the season calls for.

I'm so excited that I'm having some of my nearest and dearest over for my birthday soon and then my partner and I are going

Camping up in Ithaca New York which is going to be so beautiful. I've never been there and I'm excited. I'm excited. So I love to bring the things that come up in

anchored to the podcast because they're the things that are up for all of you

who are listening, right?

Recently, we were talking about a term that has become quite the buzzword these days,

which is resistance. It was many moons ago when I was doing my breathwork facilitator

training that I first encountered that term. If someone couldn't drop into the meditation,

if someone couldn't get present and like stay with the breath work, they were told they were having resistance or a lot more yikes, being resistant, and that they just had to work harder to drop in. They had to overcome it.

They had to push through. The folks in Ancred bring this up all the time when we're

working with our

inner children, our protector parts, or are doing somatic or body-based practices.

Early on in our time together, this kind of language doesn't last long, don't worry.

I hear them say things like,

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