Tenderoni Hotline #21: Are Emotions Really Stored in the Hips?
Feminist Wellness
Béa Victoria Albina
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Tenderoni Hotline #21: Hello my love, and welcome back to the Tenderoni Hotline, our soft and spacious corner of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, where we explore your most tender questions about healing, nervous system care, and returning home to yourself.
In today’s episode, we’re unpacking a question that comes up all the time in somatic spaces, yoga classes, and Instagram infographics: Are emotions really stored in the hips? Together, we’ll get curious about where this idea comes from, how it gets flattened into oversimplified slogans, and what’s actually happening in your body when those hips feel tight, tender, or tear-filled.
We’ll talk about the difference between emotional release and emotional resolution, what the nervous system has to do with chronic muscle bracing, and why fascia, stress, and safety are central to understanding what your body is trying to tell you.
And because you know I love the science and the woo, we’ll explore the origins of this concept across different systems, from somatic psychology to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and Indigenous frameworks, with care, nuance, and zero appropriation.
You’ll walk away with a clearer understanding of why this myth persists, how your body actually processes emotional pain, and why healing isn’t about “extracting” emotion but expanding your capacity to feel, soften, and stay present with yourself.
So go ahead and get cozy. I’m so glad you’re here.
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| 0:00.0 | This is feminist wellness, and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, somatics and nervous system nerd, and life coach, Baya Victoria Albina. |
| 0:18.9 | I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, |
| 0:21.7 | perfectionism, and codependency so you can live from your beautiful heart. Welcome, |
| 0:26.4 | my love. Let's get started. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so well. This week's question here on the Tenderoni hotline is such a good one. And it's one I asked often very early in my own somatic training. So if you're new to my world, I come from medicine. I am a UCSF trade family nurse practitioner. |
| 0:54.4 | I hold a master's degree in public health. All the science and all the woo is like one of my |
| 0:59.3 | taglines because I love science. I love the evidence base. And I believe in magic. I believe in |
| 1:08.9 | the ethereal, unknowable magic of being a human mammal. Because this is |
| 1:15.7 | kind of wild, right? That we're like a lie. And like, just being a lie. It throws me sometimes. |
| 1:28.2 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:28.7 | I'm just like, whoa. |
| 1:30.9 | There's that unfemeral, ephemeral, unknowableness. |
| 1:36.1 | Like, what is this? |
| 1:38.2 | Incredible life. |
| 1:39.8 | And what do you mean? |
| 1:40.4 | There's narwhals and there's birds. |
| 1:42.9 | And there's Wade Elizabeth Albina, my cat. |
| 1:45.8 | And that Billy exists and that like I'm wearing clothes and I have skin and nails. |
| 1:51.0 | Like there's bones outside my body. |
| 1:52.3 | Like I can really trip out on it, which I think is really important to do every once in a while |
| 1:57.5 | because wow, the fact that we're alive is just so frigging incredible. |
| 2:02.7 | Anyway, how that applies to my study of the nervous system, somatic, psychology, all of that |
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