This is feminist wellness and I'm your host nurse practitioner functional medicine expert and life coach Victoria Albina.

I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism and codependency so you can live from your beautiful heart.

Welcome, my love. Let's get started. so you can live from your beautiful heart.

Welcome, my love.

Let's get started.

Hello, my love.

I hope this finds you doing so well. We are starting a wee series today, beginning with a conversation about what trauma is, and this is going to be a mile high view. It is a huge topic for sure that I have spent a decade

studying. And we'll just be scratching the surface here today. This is going to be a long episode, so buckle up.

Next week we'll enter into a conversation about intuition and how to tell if it's trauma or your intuition talking, followed by a

discussion around making decisions and listening to your inner discernment.

So let's dive in.

I feel like everyone is talking about trauma these days.

It's very demode, you know?

And overall, I'm so, so glad that the zeitgeist is turning towards talking more about stress, distress, and trauma, something previous generations sure haven't had access to, And as someone who works with the nervous system,

I've been doing that for a long time now, who talks about and coaches from a

polyvagal framework here and on the daily and anchored my six-month program, I believe it's high time

we pause and talk about what trauma is and how it can shape our lives because it really

really matters. So trauma occurs when life gets too

lifey for our nervous systems to handle. When something terrible happens,

and we don't get the co-regulation or outside calming support

that we need in that moment to be able to regulate our emotions and our nervous system, to calm ourselves

and to come back to a felt sense of safety and okayness in the world and in our own bodies.

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