We talk a lot here you and I about healing, about learning to manage our adult minds, about

reparenting our perfect inner children.

We use thought work to shift and change our ways of thinking about our lives, to live with intention.

And all of that is enormously important. It's my life's work to show up and to coach and support you, to change the way you think, to get unstuck.

And it is so vital in the midst of all the suffering and

discomfort of doing our internal work, of seeing our shadow, to make time and space and room to prioritize pleasure because my

beauty those things are your birthright.

And if you're not doing your healing work to increase your pleasure, why are you doing it, my sweet one?

So I'll ask you, are you making room for pleasure? Are you prioritizing it? Do you want to?

If any of this is intriguing, I'll invite you to keep listening, my love.

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. I feel like I start every episode these days by gushing

about the natural beauty of the

beauty of the Nape territory I now live on in the Hudson Valley.

And you know what? I'm okay with that because, oh my goodness,

is it gorgeous up here.

And one of the things I've been thinking about as we move into the shorter, darker winter days

is how vital it is to have beauty and pleasure in our lives.

And how confused so many of us are about what that means and why it matters

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