This is feminist wellness, and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert, and life coach, Baye 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 part three of why it's challenging or hard to let yourself

feel your feelings, to allow your feelings. We took last week off. It was Valentine's Day week,

and so my wonderful and amazing wife, Billy came and joined us. I hope you enjoyed that conversation.

She's quite a gem, isn't she?

And she teaches meditation in Anchored. Did you know that? So that's so cool.

I could just go on and on about how amazing she is, but I shan't. I shall spare you.

Meanwhile, let's talk about feelings. My beauties, my tender ravioli, we've been on

quite the journey together, exploring why it can feel so hard to allow ourselves to feel our feelings

and to not judge them, not buffer against them, not block them, not push them away, not be like,

all over them. In the final episode

of this first part of the series, we're diving into three more reasons that are deeply tied to how

we've been socialized, how our nervous systems work, and how systems of oppression shape the

stories we live inside. One, the belief that emotions are inconvenient or unproductive.

Two, perfectionism and the need to hold it together.

Three, fear of rejection or disconnection.

As always, my loves, we're here to unpack these habits with gentleness and curiosity, not judgment.

So let's dive in. and next week we'll start

talking about why we sometimes don't let other people have their emotions or why people might not

allow you to have yours around them. All too common in emotional outsourcing, our codependent,

perfectionist, and people-pleasing habits of living

to try to control all of the feelings around us.

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