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. Welcome back to feminist wellness and welcome to all of our new listeners. I am so glad that

you are here. Today, we're going to shake things up. Because it's that time a year again when we get

absolutely bombarded with messages about New Year's resolution, self-improvement, and goal setting,

as though like the world was moving towards goals versus moving towards rest right now.

But anyway, this is the time when the world out there tells you to fix yourself,

to shed the weight, emotional, metaphorical, and definitely physical, to hustle your way

into some shiny ideal of who you are supposed to be. But let's get real, my darlands, I'm not here for

that. I'm not here to hand you another to-do list disguise of self-improvement. I'm not here to cheerlead

you into over-functioning your way to worthiness.

I'm certainly not here to give you a set of rules about how to finally be good enough to be

lovable. Oh, go, oh, no, no, no. Instead, I'm inviting you into a different kind of conversation

for the new year, one that's about reclaiming the parts of you

that have been quietly set aside. The parts of you that got buried under layers of self-doubt,

fear, and the relentless pressure to be what others needed you to be. I'm talking here about your values, the core grounding principles that make

you, you, the values that got buried when you were taught explicitly or implicitly that your safety,

belonging, and love, and lovability were conditional, that they could only be earned by contorting yourself

into someone else's idea of enough. This year, I'm inviting you not to change who you are. Instead,

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