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. My love, I've been hard at work writing a book for you.

And so I've been recording the podcast in advance to give myself lots of focus time, lots of margin within which to work.

So at the time of recording this particular podcast, the outcome of the 2024 election is unknown.

And I just want to acknowledge that many of us, in particular feminist wellness listeners,

might be feeling really big feelings. We might be feeling

scared, hopeless, upset, worried, or hopefully fingers crossed, hopefully, not like the entire world

is ending. Either way, I want to remind you of your skills, because this election season has been a doozy.

As a listener of feminist wellness, I know you have the skills and the tools to ground your nervous system,

to come back towards embodied safety like we talked about in episode 275 in the embodiment series, 276 to 279, to step out of catastrophizing,

like we talked about in 285.

And regardless of the outcomes, I think most of our nervous systems are wicked-fried,

especially if you've been paying attention.

And so I want to invite you to listen to the special series I released earlier

in the pandemic right after episode 57. The tools in there are super helpful in times like these.

Most of all, I'll say this. We need each other. We need community care, mutual aid, collective

thinking, collective support support to have our own

backs and each other's, and to remember what Audrey Lord taught us about self-care, that it is a

radical act.

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