Do you ever hear about a friend's achievements and your heart sinks?

You're totally happy for them, but something within you starts wondering why you didn't

get that job, that engagement proposal, why you didn't reach that goal or milestone in the same time

frame that they did. Your brain starts to compare your insides to your friends' outsides, to put you down and call you a failure in a bad

way to begin to ask dead-headed questions in a mean way does this mean I need more

school to gain or lose some LBS, to do my whole life

differently? If I want what this friend, family member, stranger on the internet has?

Does your brain start to get all poor me about it?

And to question all your life's work and success, your worth?

Yeah, I've been there too, my darling, and it's a dead-end street for sure,

one I often traversed a load in the dark.

And this thought habit known as compare and despair does nothing to move your perfect life forward.

If this way of viewing yourself, other people's success, and the world at large is part of your thinking, you're going to want to keep

listening. It's going to 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 so well. Things are good here in Brooklyn, you know, as good as they can be, what with a global pandemic. We are getting ready to go up state for a

little minute in two weeks and we are being really thoughtful and careful about

making sure that we get groceries now,

fill the gas tank now, so we can have a solid two weeks

of not leaving the house, like full quarantine

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