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. Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you

doing so well. So today, we're diving into a topic that might feel uncomfortably relevant this time of year,

dealing with challenging family members and really challenging conversations,

especially when the family dynamic is a tangle of emotional outsourcing.

And if you're new around here, that means our codependent, perfectionist, and people-pleasing habits.

Now, I think most of us have been there.

You walk into a family gathering, outfitted with the absolute best intentions, maybe even

a little casserole as something delicious to share.

And within minutes, your once calm nervous system is doing absolute backflips, and you're just kind of

hoping that maybe the couch will swallow you whole? Maybe. If you're lucky, your cousin is making

passive-aggressive comments about your career, your mom is laying on the guilt about how

little you call, or making so many comments about your weight, your skin, your hair, your

oh, wow. And of course, your, oh, wow.

And of course, someone has inevitably brought up politics over dessert.

It's a lot.

And here's the thing, my angels, navigating these moments with grace and self-respect,

isn't about memorizing a script or nailing a witty one-liner. I mean, don't get me wrong,

a well-played zinger can feel amazing. But if your nervous system is in full-blown red alert mode,

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