Anxiety can be an exhausting life stealer.

It can feel like a wall between you, the people you love, and the life you want to live.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

I'll explain the science of anxiety and what's happening in your brain when you feel that rush of tension in your body

And will teach you simple actionable practical tools to shift both body and mind

Using the science-based cognitive behavioral thought work that helped me change my life

and helps me release anxiety when it shows up today.

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, my loves. Thanks for tuning in. I'm so excited for episode 3. I am also really

excited for the upcoming Keatono Veloso show that I just bought tickets for at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

He's a Brazilian singer and I grew up listening to his music.

Kim, Jorge Ben, Gilberto Gio, like all those amazing Brazilian artists were a standard, right?

Like they were just the music of my household growing up.

That in the Beatles.

And when I hear his music, it just really transports me and takes me back to this really fun time of like singing with my sister and dancing around the living room.

I'm really excited to see him live.

So we're here today to talk about anxiety. Anxiety used to dominate my life and we all

have anxiety sometimes myself included. But what used to be true for me that I'm

grateful to say is no longer as true is that it no longer

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