Posts by Victoria Albina

Learn why you don’t need to earn your healing or wait for a crisis to change, and why wanting more presence, peace, and pleasure is enough reason to grow.

Learn how healing happens in community, why you can’t overcome relational trauma in isolation, and what it actually feels like to be witnessed, supported, and loved.

Learn how emotional outsourcing develops early, gets reinforced by cultural systems, and shows up in our bodies as chronic anxiety, exhaustion, and disconnection.

Anchored alum Carey Cramer and I dive into the power of community healing and how the group coaching format of Anchored creates a uniquely potent container for transformation.

Learn how emotional outsourcing creates disconnection from what you want, and how to begin reconnecting with your authentic desires.

Learn why asking for consent is a practice that’s especially crucial for those of us working to overcome emotional outsourcing tendencies, and how incorporating conversational consent helps us create genuine connection in our relationships.

Learn how our childhood pain shapes patterns that masquerade as virtues, and a simple tool for dismantling these invisible rebellions.

Abbie Attwood, an anti-diet, fat-positive, and weight-inclusive nutritionist, joins me this week to dive into what I call emotional outsourcing, and how it creates cycles that leave us exhausted and disconnected from our authentic selves.

Hear how Paula’s story demonstrates what’s possible when we commit to our own healing and growth.

Learn what relationship magical realism is, how it manifests in our thoughts and behaviors, and the real cost of staying in these fantasies.