Have you ever found yourself telling someone else what they should do to fix their life?

How they should be living?

How their life would be so much better if they just followed your plan, especially when they didn't ask you

for your input.

This, my love, is the fixer thought fantasy, and it's one I engaged in for so many years.

This thought habit is insidious and sneaky and doesn't serve you my sweet one.

Nor does it serve the person whose life you're trying to control

with your attempts to soothe yourself by, well, attempting to control them and to be the fixer of their life.

If this resonates for you, my sweet one, 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 so well. I am coming to you from beautiful upstate New York and it's

been so magical to wake up amongst the trees to go out on the porch. My brain loves to wake me up at like 6, 6.30 in the morning and I make my

matte and I go out on the porch and just stare at bunnies. I've been staring at a lot of

bunnies and oh we have this gorgeous fat amazing chipmunk no not chipmunk

uh... woodchuck thischuck, I just love him so much. I talk to them, all of them,

quite a bit. They kind of stare back at me, but that's okay. It just brings me so much joy to just

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