This is feminist wellness, and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, somatics, and nervous system nerd, and life coach, Bea Victoria Albina.

I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism,

and codependency so you can live from your beautiful heart. Welcome, my love. Let's get started.

Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. Listen, I am beyond delighted this

week to share a conversation I recently had with Monica Silva. She was in the most recent

anchored cohort, and we met to talk about her experience. I'd love to have these conversations

with folks and to share them with you here on feminist wellness,

because back when I was in the depths, like the deep, dark pit of despair that is emotional outsourcing,

our codependent perfectionist and people-pleasing habits, and all the survival pattern skills that come with them,

I didn't know anybody who had been in the pit and climbed their way out of it.

I didn't know it was possible. All I knew was that everyone around me seemed to be swimming in the

same soup I was swimming in. And so when I think back, if that I had had, the subjunctive tense is so much sexier in Spanish,

if that I had had models for what was possible, who knows, maybe things would have been different.

But that is neither here nor there. What's different now is that Anchored exists, is that you've found my work,

and you can listen to the incredible, heartwarming, inspiring stories of people who've been through Anchored

and are living differently. And Monica is a beautiful example of just that. And I am thrilled

to share her story with you. Take it away us. Oh, thank you so much for

joining us. Thank you for having me. I'm really excited to be here. Yay. So would you start by telling us

your name, your pronouns, where you live, sharing a land acknowledgement if you know whose land you're on?

My name is Monica Silva. I use she and they pronouns. I live on Tihona Odom and Paskwaiyaki land,

also known as Tucson, Arizona. Right on. And my darling, what lights you up? Like,

what are you most passionate about?

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