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. So we've spent the last few weeks diving deep into the importance of feeling

your feelings, and we've been unpacking some of the sneaky and clever ways we unwittingly

avoid doing it, because let's be real. I can feel terrifying to face the full truth of our inner world, especially when

the outer world, let's call it the outer world. The actual IRL world in which we live is

scary and worrisome and angering. Just that barely begins it, right? One of the things I hear over and over from my clients so

often that it deserved its own episode is this. I'm game to feel the feelings, but I don't want to be

selfish and get wrapped up in myself, and I don't just want to wallow in the feelings. And I hear that phrase, wallow in it a lot.

I'm worried if I start to feel the big feels, I'll just get stuck in it and like,

no thank you, not interested.

So how do you know when you've actually felt your feelings all the way through?

How do you make sure you're giving

them the space they need without getting stuck in them, like a record skipping on the same sad

tune? How can you know if you're actually feeling your feelings in a helpful way or if you're just

splashing around in them like a toddler in a rain puddle, endlessly soaking yourself

without getting anywhere. It can be challenging to figure out at first, for sure, especially if you

spent years outsourcing your emotional regulation, shape-shifting yourself like a little

chameleon on a rock, trying to fit other people's needs, scanning the room for safety

before checking in with your own tenderoni heart.

When you're learning to reconnect with your feelings, the line between feeling and wallowing

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