Feminist Wellness - with Beatriz Albina
Breaking Down Patriarchy
Amy McPhie Allebest
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Amy is joined by Beatriz Albina, NP, MPH and host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast to discuss the wear and tear of patriarchy on our nervous systems plus practical strategies for overcoming "good-girl training" and restoring our dysregulated bodies.
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Beatriz Victoria Albina (she/her) is a Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner and Breathwork Meditation Guide. She helps humans socialized as women realize that they are their own best healers by reconnecting with their bodies and minds so they can break free from, codependency, perfectionism, and people-pleasing, and reclaim their joy. She is the of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, is trained in Somatic Experiencing, holds a master's degree in public health from Boston University and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Oberlin College. Beatriz has been working in health & wellness for rover 20 years and lives on occupied Munsee Lenape territory in New York.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I am Amy McPhee, all the best. Patriarchy is everywhere, |
| 0:07.6 | and yet its structures can sometimes be difficult to identify. Its effects on our society and on our bodies, |
| 0:15.7 | however, these we can clearly observe. We can collect data on it, we have to respond to it. As long-time listeners |
| 0:23.3 | already know, those effects of patriarchy on our bodies and on our health are often devastating. |
| 0:29.3 | As Dr. Mary Catherine McDonald told us last year, quote, a patriarchal system is inherently anxiety-provoking. |
| 0:37.5 | And for those of us most actively oppressed by this system, |
| 0:40.6 | it instills a feeling that we are being oppressed and that we're in danger, |
| 0:44.7 | and our nervous system is going to respond accordingly, end quote. |
| 0:49.3 | What do these responses look like? |
| 0:51.3 | Maybe nausea, maybe digestive troubles, maybe breathing problems, |
| 0:56.5 | increased rates of heart disease, mental health struggles, but come from living life in a world |
| 1:02.0 | where we feel unsafe and unwelcome. So how can we regulate our own nervous systems as we |
| 1:08.1 | navigate this patriarchal world? How can we take care of ourselves? |
| 1:11.9 | And how can we stay committed to this work of breaking down these oppressive systems? |
| 1:16.5 | These are just some of the topics addressed by medical practitioner and host of the podcast |
| 1:21.0 | Feminist Wellness, Beatrice Alina. Welcome, Beatrice. Thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be here. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm so excited to have you and really excited to dig into this discussion. |
| 1:42.5 | Beatrice Alvina is a functional medicine nurse practitioner, an herbalist, a certified breathwork meditation practitioner, and the host of the podcast, Feminist Wellness. |
| 1:49.8 | Her work explores the connection between trauma, the nervous system, and healing our bodies through somatic practices. |
| 1:57.8 | And so, yes, as I said, I'm so excited because I feel like, especially right now, we were just talking before we hopped on the recording. |
| 2:02.6 | We're recording in mid-January of 2025 right after the Trump inauguration. And I think a lot of people are experiencing a lot of dysregulation, a lot of |
| 2:10.0 | physical symptoms of anxiety coming from the changing landscape of the world. We're living in. So |
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