Posts by Victoria Albina

I love having and sharing brilliant conversations here on the podcast, and I recently had one with Emma and Cass; the hosts of the Honeydew Me Podcast. This is a show all about sex, love, and relationships that I’m on monthly as a regular guest, and I can’t wait for you to hear our discussion…

It’s not uncommon for us emotional outsourcers to have unintentional and unconscious behaviors in relation to others that we learned as part of our survival. We tend to re-enact painful ways of relating, and we don’t realize how these old thoughts, feelings, and actions are harming us until we wake up to these patterns.  We…

It’s amazing to be able to step out of the life we’ve been living to take time, go on retreat, and step into deep inquiry about the experience of being human. There’s enormous value in holding our experience at arm’s length to meditate on our everyday lives so we can give ourselves space to hear…

A sense of belonging is so core to the human experience. Our human psyche is always seeking out belonging and connection, but for us folks living in codependent, perfectionist, and people-pleasing mindsets, we unwittingly hold on to stories that often work against our human endeavor of belonging.  If you find that you don’t like being…

  This week, I’m delighted to introduce you to Charlene Lam. Charlene is a certified grief coach, curator, speaker, and founder of The Grief Gallery. She does amazing work in the world to support her clients around the theme of grief, and she’ll be back on the podcast soon to speak specifically about grief. On…

  In our multi-part deep dive into healthy anger, I introduced you to the mixed nervous system response of fawning. I unpacked the science behind it and highlighted why it’s essential for us to step out of the habit of fawning, and this week, we’re getting super practical.  If you’re tired of spending another day…

  For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been taking a deep dive into healthy anger and why this is an energy that deserves to be processed and released through our bodies. Instead of holding anger at bay, we need to find a way to let that energy complete, but the reality is, very often,…

  Last week, we spoke about the beautiful experience of healthy anger, where I explored why it’s your birthright to feel and express anger. This week, I’m taking it a step further by diving into what happens when we’re cut off from the self-protective response that anger is, and how to begin reclaiming our healthy…

  As my Anchored community sets sail on learning to feel their feelings, connect with and bring healing to their inner children, and process their past and present lived experiences as folks with emotional sourcing habits, anger and even rage have been coming up for many of them. As they start loving and accepting all…

  As I embrace winter in the northern hemisphere and take this opportunity to slow down, reflect, and meditate on all the change that’s afoot, this is the perfect time to think about what no longer serves us and what might need to die, both in nature and in us, so that we can make…