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.

My love, today is the day, publication day. The day this book I have poured my heart, my science, nerdy brain, my story,

and my whole self into is officially out in the world. And I need you with me. Not later,

not someday, but today. Here's how it really works. What happens this week matters. Whether a book gets printed

in large numbers or not depends on pre-orders. Publishers look at those first week numbers to decide

if this book matters enough to keep printing, and that decision ripples out. It impacts whether

your local family-owned independent bookstore can keep it in stock,

whether your library carries it, whether it's on the shelf when someone who desperately needs

these words goes looking. And I want to be clear, my love. Listen, I am not pushing for pre-orders

because it makes me any money. Let me tell you the truth. Writing a book

these days is actually a profound money-losing proposition. That's just the reality of publishing.

You do it because the subject matter matters. So no, this isn't about putting dollars in my pocket.

What your pre-order does is help get these life-changing words into more hands.

It makes sure that someone out there who feels broken and unseen, the way I once did,

can walk into a bookstore or a public library and find this book waiting there for them.

That's what matters. Because cruelty is the norm right now. You know it, I know it, we're steeped in

anti-love, anti-care messages all day long. Grind harder, toughen up. Prove yourself endlessly. Don't

need anyone. Don't take care of your neighbor. Don't trust science. Don't trust yourself.

Don't feel. That's a soup we're swimming in.

And what this book says, what you and I are saying together is enough.

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