When you've lived a life that's been all about other people and their comfort, happiness, preferences, pleasure, making declarative statements about what you do and don't want can be challenging to say the least.

When you're not used to directly communicating, it can also feel very challenging to believe people and what they literally tell you.

This week we're talking about a couple common habits that can keep us from living into our most radiant joy, habits that may not serve

us. Curious? Ready to live life saying what you mean and believing other people when they say what they want.

Keep listening. It's going to be a good one.

You're listening to Feminist Well, 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. Victoria Albina.

Hello, hello my love. I hope this finds you doing so well.

So I have been thinking a lot about you.

And I am so passionate about you,

about you my beloved listener, learning what you want and you getting it in this lifetime.

Whether what you want to do is to ask someone on a date to tell someone you want a divorce to get the graduate degree you want and not the one your parents want for you to pursue a career dream, an artistic dream, to move, or to tell your partner you don't want to move.

Whatever it may be that you actually want for you? Oh my sweet love it is so vital to our wellness on all

levels to know what we want and to begin to take courageous action.

That's right, failing ahead of time, failing and failing and failing and failing on

purpose till we get what we want.

Taking courageous action to live with intention.

And for us, with cod dependent perfectionist and people-pleasing

thought habits, that can feel really challenging

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