This is feminist wellness, and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, somatics, and nervous system nerd, and life coach, Bea 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.

Oh, what a delight to be here together, as always. And today, on the almost

eve of the winter solstice, and today on the almost eve of the summer solstice, we're talking

about something that might feel a little witchy and a little woo, which I personally think

are beautiful things. And also

conveniently, because it's me. What we're diving into is both ancient wisdom and

cutting edge nervous system science. We are talking about ritual. We're talking about ritual.

ritual is a thing I absolutely love. And so what I want to talk about today is why so many of us

have lost touch with ritual in our lives. What that loss has cost us and how reclaiming it

might be one of the most practical, revolutionary, and feminist things you can do in your journey

to heal from emotional outsourcing. So get comfortable,

maybe light a candle if you want, and let's talk about coming home to ourselves. Picture this

with me for a second, a long table with flickering candles, a centerpiece of local greens,

fragrant and alive, evergreen boughs, Stretching across its length, around this table,

sit women, faces glowing with shared laughter and quiet reverence holding space for each other.

They pour tea, speak truths, and let the silences breathe. It's not a church service or like a

corporate workshop, but something older than either

of those. It's a ritual. In the modern world, many of us have fully lost touch with ritual,

those sacred acts of gathering and tension and meaning-making. And my angels, this loss hasn't been

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