It's normal and human to F up, to make a mistake, to not do a thing you said you do.

But for many of us, not measuring up to some internal standard of perfection leads to a spiral of guilt.

The kind of guilt that leads us to be unkind to ourselves, to beat ourselves up and my love. What we get to learn is that what you eat, say, do, don't do, that you said you do. All of that is just that and it's not an indictment of your value, worth, or goodness, my perfect angel.

Ready to drop the guilt for good?

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.

Things are great in my world.

The leaves are changing colors.

I got to watch two chipmunks.

I have like a wrestle on my porch the other day which was so

cute. They were like chasing each other two feet away from me. I was reading a really great book called

Digital Minimalism that my amazing friend Andrea Glick sent me and was contemplating the role of social media and all this digital everything in my life when gosh I got to get super duper present because I heard

little nails on the deck and I was like what is it? With not the Wolverine my

brain thought it was it was two squirrels and they were running so fast and so hard it sounded like a herd of elephants.

Seems I've taken to country life pretty well. My six-month master class overcoming codependency is also

going really well. I am wildly in love with everyone in it and we're doing such beautiful

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