When we don't learn to regulate our emotions as children, when our homes feel unsafe,

when we don't feel seen and heard, even in what feels like the most beautiful childhood. We can carry those lessons of feeling

disappointed or anxious, having a quick temper, getting easily offended, taking things personally, communicating directly versus just

stating our needs, and so much more into adulthood. When we're in these reactive states, blaming others and

abdicating responsibility for our own thoughts and how we feel, this is

emotional childhood.

Today we're talking about the antidote, emotional adulthood,

and this framework has been so useful for me in my own health and healing. Curious to learn more, keep on

listening my love. 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, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. I'm so excited about this

Wii series I'm doing about our inner child self and how sweet younger you shows up in beautiful and limiting ways in your physical

adultness. I've been spending a lot of time with little ones lately, like actual children in addition to my own inner children, and it's

been so interesting to watch how the actual like three, four, and eight-year-olds operate.

How they ask for attention or demand it if they aren't getting their needs met, how they decline

to do things that we think are good for them if they don't want to, because autonomy is so limited when you're a dependent

kiddo. Like sometimes they don't want to eat or sleep or drink water, get out of

the sun, go to the bathroom in ways we prefer.

They stake their claim on their own little bodies.

And one of the first things I learned in my pediatric rotations

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