Ep #89: Why Complaining Never Helps
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Listen in this week as I show you why complaining never serves you, and how to navigate life when things aren’t what you want them to be. I’m outlining a few key questions you can ask to identify if you’re complaining, so you can make the intentional choice to do something different with your precious time and energy.
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| 0:00.0 | Last week we talked about the problems with false positivity, pretending everything is fine when it's just not, because you don't want to be a burden, a bother. |
| 0:11.0 | You don't feel you deserve to be upset or to find fault in someone or something and how that habit of slapping some false positivity on a challenging situation can hold you back from getting real with what's not |
| 0:26.2 | working in your life so you can make changes. This week we're going deeper on the complex issue of complaining and we'll be talking about how it doesn't serve you. |
| 0:39.0 | Whether you're a chronic complainer or don't let yourself complain. Keep listening. It's going to be a good one. |
| 0:48.0 | You're listening to Feminist Wellness, the only podcast that combines functional medicine, life coaching, and feminism to |
| 0:55.8 | teach smart women how to reclaim their power and restore their health. |
| 1:00.5 | Here's your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert, herbalist, and life coach, Victoria Albina. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. My goodness, the leaves are putting on quite the show up here on occupied Lenape territory in the Hudson Valley of New York State, and it's so magnificent to be in nature and to experience autumn all around me. |
| 1:34.3 | We're also coming up on the elections here in the US, |
| 1:37.3 | and if you haven't already either cast your vote |
| 1:40.4 | or made a plan for voting, |
| 1:42.4 | I want to encourage you to do so and to remind the folks you love to do the same. |
| 1:48.0 | It is so vital that we get out the vote. |
| 1:54.3 | All right, my beauties. |
| 1:55.8 | That was my soapbox moment. |
| 1:59.2 | So this week we are going to talk more about complaining. There's a complexity here and you know me I love to |
| 2:06.4 | dive into the complexity. So one of the things I talk about so much is how important and vital it is to recognize when something |
| 2:17.1 | doesn't work for you, when you want to make a change in your life so you can take action to shift things while holding that to be true |
| 2:26.8 | and that you get to feel all your beautiful feels and that it is so vital to honor them, to give them air and space and not to |
| 2:37.9 | attempt to cover them up with false positivity, not to beat yourself up for having human feelings. |
| 2:45.0 | This week I want to dive into how complaining, especially chronic complaining, |
| 2:51.0 | can be less than helpful, what it does to your brain and alternatives, |
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