Ep #353: Pre-Holiday Prep for Your Nervous System
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
#353: My love, it’s that time of year again. The holidays are coming, and so are the family dynamics that can send your nervous system into overdrive.
If you find that walking into your family home instantly turns you into your teenage self, you’re not alone… and you're not imagining it. Your nervous system is time-traveling. The smell of gravy, the sound of that one family laugh, your dad's aftershave - these sensory cues can fling your nervous system back to being thirteen before your brain even registers what's happening.
Join me this week as I walk you through those real holiday moments that tend to light up an emotional outsourcing nervous system. You’ll learn my favorite pre-holiday prep tools that will help you stay grounded and teach your body what choice feels like in an environment where you never had any, one sensory detail at a time.
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| 1:06.2 | This is feminist wellness, and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, somatics and nervous system nerd, and life coach, Bea Victoria Albina. |
| 1:09.9 | I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, |
| 1:12.7 | perfectionism, and codependency so you can live from your beautiful heart. Welcome, my love. |
| 1:17.9 | Let's get started. Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. Listen, it's a time of year again. It snuck up on us. |
| 1:31.9 | It snuck up on me for sure. A week from today is American Thanksgiving. I mean, |
| 1:38.3 | thanks taking, right? This is a complicated day for those who believe in indigenous rights and land back. But I digress because I want |
| 1:48.0 | to talk about you and me and families and emotional outsourcing. Because, you know, every year |
| 1:53.7 | around this time, I get the same kinds of messages, the same things come up and anchored for coaching. |
| 1:59.6 | I'm dreading going home. Or I've worked so hard on my |
| 2:03.5 | healing and I feel so good at home, but like five minutes into a family gathering, I am 13 again |
| 2:09.3 | and everything's a disaster. And I want to say that that makes perfect sense. When your family |
| 2:15.2 | system has a long history of emotional outsourcing, when love was |
| 2:19.0 | something you earned by being easy, agreeable, useful, or invisible, the holidays aren't neutral, |
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