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. So my darlings, today is the day of the week in which I generally

create a podcast for you. And that is the theme for today.

What to do and how to support yourself

when no matter what you start to work on.

Your brain says, blarg.

I'm cracking myself up saying blarg repeatedly. So, that's me.

So, I was sitting there staring at this computer seemingly endlessly and I realized I had some options.

The first was to try to push myself, to do something that my brain and body were obviously not having, which is a message,

it's quite the cultural teaching, right? Pushed through it. No pain I lived from for many years.

Pushing and pushing and pushing myself to keep working to keep working to keep writing to keep studying to keep producing to keep working, writing, to keep studying, to keep producing, to keep excelling.

And then I took a breath, grounded myself, and remembered that I don't push myself any longer.

I'm not into it, I'm not available for it. And this is one of the things we

talk about a lot in Anckered, my six month program. Moving out of the old story that we have to push

through to change our thoughts and feels to feel better.

That old story that we have to push through the signals from our bodies that say,

hold on a second now, this doesn't feel right. This isn't the right

choice for me, my life, my world, right now. This isn't the thing that I want or

need to be doing. And in those moments when we remember or decide

that we're no longer available to push or be pushed, instead we can pause and can ground ourselves in our bodies to open up space for compassion,

curiosity, and care.

The three Cs we talk about here on the show with some regularity, which are vital to overcoming our cod dependent,

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