Ep #311: Why It’s Hard to Let Yourself Feel Your Feelings (Part 1)

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

4.9 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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#311: Do you ever find it hard to let yourself feel your feelings?

If so, you're not alone. But here's the good news: you can absolutely build the skill of feeling your feelings safely and gently. It's not about diving in all at once, but taking tiny kitten steps to show your body that it's okay to feel.

Tune in to learn three key reasons why it can be so challenging to allow your emotions, and how to start allowing your emotions in a way that feels manageable and safe for you.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/311

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0:00.0	This is feminist wellness, and I'm your host,
0:11.3	Nurse Practitioner, Functional Medicine expert, and life coach, Victoria Albina.
0:15.6	I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism, and codependency,
0:20.2	so you can live from your beautiful
0:22.0	heart. Welcome, my love. Let's get started. Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you
0:32.1	doing so well. So, this is a really challenging time for those of us who have our eyes open to the state
0:44.4	of the world. Since the inauguration, I have been holding a lot of space for myself, my friends, my
0:53.7	family, and of course my clients in Inkert
0:56.0	in the Somatic Studio, because there's a lot of understandable fear, grief, anger, despair is a
1:05.9	word that's been coming up. And I want, while I do not in any way, claim to have all of the answers, or
1:13.8	what I do know is how to feel feelings. And I know that the more we are able to actually
1:23.2	hold space to feel these challenging feelings instead of either pushing them aside,
1:29.8	buffering against them, or letting them devour us, which isn't always like actually feeling them.
1:36.5	Right? Sometimes when the despair just takes over, we're in this dorsal spinny spin,
1:42.2	or it's at freeze where we feel like dorsal and shut down and despair
1:47.1	and oh my God, everything's terrible, but also simultaneously like revved up and anxious.
1:53.3	They're not nervous as dumb moments that support us in being, well, supportive to ourselves, our communities, our friends, our families,
2:05.3	marginalized folks. So many folks are being pushed further and further and further into the margins.
2:11.6	And so I think it really behooves us to hold space for all of the feelings for ourselves and for the people we love. And so,
2:20.2	as folks with emotional outsourcing habits, I'm going to generalize here to say that many of us,
2:30.1	and I've met so many of us over these many, many years of doing this work. I'll say this generously, we don't have the bestest skills at holding space.
2:39.4	Right, we try to, like, shut feelings down in ourselves or others because, well, because of the reasons we're about to go through.
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