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. I'm really hoping you can hear the birds in the

background. Oh it has been absolutely luscious and incredible to wake up here in the woods on occupied

moncee linape territory the Hudson Valley of New York to the sound of all these birds. It is just magnificent and I'm just so grateful.

My nervous system rejoices each and every day to wake up to seeing the trees starting to bud all around the house and

hearing all this gorgeous bird song. We have several bird feeders around the house and it's just I'm turning into like one of those birding ladies and you know what I got to tell you? I'm not mad about it.

That's pretty dope. I want to get us going today with a quote from Carla McLaren,

and this is in talking about Somatics, our topic for today. I began to see the upwelling of powerful

emotions as the human version of the kicking, trembling, and struggling animals

do when they come back to their bodies after a trauma.

Gingerly, I began to include the Furies, depressions, griefs, and

accelerations in my work and I watched in awe

as people became whole again. The emotions taught me more than anyone or anything else ever has or could.

Oof! Isn't that beautiful? I watched in awe as people became whole again.

And that's been my experience in somatics as well. It has been the most powerful

modality for my own return to my wholeness.

So today we're going to explore this topic,

one near and dear to my heart somatics,

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