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Feminist Wellness

Ep #274: The Cost of Being Defensive

Feminist Wellness

Béa Victoria Albina

Lifecoaching, Holistic, Feminist, Self-improvement, Fatigue, Alternative Health, Feelingstuckinlife, Spirituality, Healthygut, Health & Fitness, Mindbodyconnection, Guthealth, Connectionsbetweenthoughtsandhealth, Education, Ibs, Gutmicrobiome, Feminism

4.9988 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

#274: Defensiveness is a protective mechanism embedded in our evolutionary history that we can be grateful for, but it can also be painful to you and those you’re in relationship with. What can you do to step out of this deeply ingrained habit?

Tune in this week to learn where defensiveness stems from and how to cultivate patience and compassion towards yourself and others when it shows up. I’m showing you the connection between defensiveness and self-esteem, why thought work often isn’t enough to stop this habit, and my favorite remedies for reducing the impulsivity of your defensive responses.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/274

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0:00.0

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

0:15.0

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

0:22.0

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

0:23.0

Welcome, my love.

0:24.2

Let's get started.

0:25.2

Hello, my love.

0:29.2

I hope this finds you doing so well. I woke up this morning to the most remarkable and

0:38.7

glorious chorus of Bird Song and it has such a palpable impact on my entire day. I tend to be a chipper one as you can probably tell.

0:50.0

Just having that connection with nature with something so much bigger than me,

0:55.0

but also so much smaller and cuter.

0:58.0

There's very cute birds.

1:00.0

Just feels amazing.

1:01.0

And talking about that, I'm looking out my window, I'm orienting my nervous system,

1:05.7

beautiful thing to do frequently, and the other day we had this wild, outrageous rainstorm.

1:14.0

And a few hours later, I was here in my office.

1:17.3

I was looking out the window, and there was a raptor,

1:20.3

a big dark-colored raptor. I couldn't tell from here and I like also do need to go to the

1:26.4

optometer decision. It was a little fuzzy I gotta say but it was either a hawk or like a vulture anyway like sunning its wings and like spreading its

1:35.8

wings out and drying them in the sunshine and it was just one of those moments where I

1:42.1

felt so small but so big and so unimportant and so

1:46.3

important and just like a part of it all. And I've got to say that has been the

1:51.3

greatest gift of somatic practice. I used to race around life like a chicken with its tiny head cut off and there times I do that too, but more often than not I'm moving with a different slowness that comes from within,

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