Last week we talked about uncertainty and how it's a fact of this human life, one that can be very challenging and eventually liberating, even rewarding to accept.

And as humans, we get to do the work of accepting this fact,

that life is uncertain in order to live our truest, most honest lives, and to not shunned our beautiful nervous systems into sympathetic fight or flight energy.

Every time something comes up that reminds us, or shows

us in Technicolor, the uncertainty of life.

Oh, you know, like a global pandemic.

Today, we'll be talking about control,

the cousin of uncertainty thinking,

and how this thought habit doesn't serve you my darling one but comes

from a place of self-love nonetheless. Keep listening. It's gonna be a good one. You're listening to feminist wellness.

The only podcast that combines functional medicine, life coaching and feminism,

to teach smart women how to reclaim their power and restore their health.

Here's your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert, herbalist and life coach,

Victoria Albina.

Hello, hello, my love.

I hope this finds you doing well during this particularly challenging moment in our human existence.

I've been thinking so much about myself before coaching and myself after me now.

I used to be so sick in the physical sense. My belly was a mess. I just felt terrible most of the time and I compounded that terrible feeling by calling it a terrible feeling and creating so much thought drama for myself

about my symptoms and I've been thinking about this global symptom of fear, of worry, of concern.

Listen, I'm not here for even a millisecond,

particularly as someone who's a volunteer

to potentially go work in the hospitals, which is something I haven't done in quite a while. I'll get to relearn how to intubate and start IVs and all of that stuff.

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