Ep #372: Reclaim Rest: How to Rest When It Feels Unsafe (Part 2)
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
#372: What if the reason rest feels so hard isn’t because you’re bad at it, but because your body has learned that rest is unsafe? What if slowing down doesn’t feel peaceful, but instead sparks anxiety, guilt, or that crawling-out-of-your-skin feeling?
In this episode, I get into the real, practical side of rest, especially for those of us whose nervous systems have been shaped by emotional outsourcing. Last week, we explored why rest feels threatening. Now we’re focusing on how to actually rest in real life, when your body resists it. Because knowing you need rest and knowing how to rest are two completely different skills.
Tune in this week to learn how to identify the type of rest your body actually needs, from physical and sensory to emotional and spiritual rest, and how to meet yourself there with small, doable practices. I’ll also walk you through what to do when rest brings up anxiety, guilt, or fear, and how to work with your nervous system so rest can start to feel safe, supportive, and truly restorative.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, quick little love note before we dive in and emotional outsourcing is out and reviews |
| 0:07.1 | are the thing that actually moves the needle for a book like this from a new author. |
| 0:12.1 | If you've already ordered or listened, come drop some stars and a sentence or 20 on |
| 0:17.7 | Amazon and Goodreads. |
| 0:19.5 | You can leave a review without even buying there. It's a weird loophole |
| 0:23.5 | that works in our favor. Then come to Beatricealbina.com slash book with your screenshot because I have |
| 0:30.0 | raffles and gifts waiting for you, breathwork, audiobook copies, even coaching with me, a whole pile of thank yous for helping to get end |
| 0:40.6 | emotional outsourcing into more hands, which is what your review can do. |
| 1:03.3 | This is Feminist Wellness, and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, somatics, and nervous system nerd, and life coach, Bea Victoria Albina. |
| 1:10.5 | 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 |
| 1:12.2 | started. Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you going so well. So here's what I'm hearing |
| 1:23.4 | from so many of you after last week's episode. Okay, Bayah, I get it. I understand why rest feels |
| 1:29.1 | dangerous. I understand that my nervous system learned to read stillness as a threat, but what am I |
| 1:35.5 | supposed to actually do about it? And I love this question because it is, in fact, the right |
| 1:42.5 | question. So understanding why something is hard doesn't make it |
| 1:46.6 | easier. Awareness is healing in and of itself, but like knowing the science behind your anxiety |
| 1:52.6 | doesn't suddenly make rest feel safe. And I know that feeling. Like I remember when I was so deep |
| 1:59.2 | in not resting that if like one more wellness person told |
| 2:02.0 | me like, just take a bath without acknowledging that getting in the bathtub might make you want to |
| 2:06.9 | crawl out of your skin, oh, man, we're all going to lose it, right? And like, I get it. I get that so |
| 2:14.0 | much of that advice lands really flat because it's not situated in our real experience. |
| 2:20.0 | So today we're going to get practical. We're going to be talking about the how. And I want to share |
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