Posts by Beatriz Victoria Albina
How to Shift Your Experience of Resistance (Pt 2)
Often, in the #spiritual and wellness worlds, the term “resistance” is used as a way to blame and often shame folks when our nervous system says no, while our brains say, “Sure, yeah, okay, I’ll do that.” This resistance comes up when we want to make new thought work stick. When we want to start…
Read MoreEp #181: How to Shift Your Experience of Resistance (Part 2)
Last week, we talked in depth about the popular and problematic use of the term resistance, often in the spiritual and wellness world, as a way to blame and often shame folks when our nervous system says, “That sounds terrible…” while our brains say, “Sure, okay, I’ll do that…” So, this week, we’re getting into…
Read MoreEp #180: Understanding the Energy of Resistance (Part 1)
I love bringing you discussions from inside Anchored, and recently, we’ve been talking about a term that has become quite the buzzword these days: resistance. Folks in our community bring this up often when we’re working with our inner children or doing somatic practices, and the truth is we need to rethink our relationship with…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Energy of Resistance (Part 1)
The folks in Anchored bring the term “resistance” up all the time, when we’re working with our inner children, our protector parts, or are doing somatic or body-based practices. Early on in our time together—this kind of language doesn’t last long, don’t worry. I hear them say things like, “I’m feeling stuck. I have resistance…
Read MorePolyvagal 101: Get to Know Your Nervous System
Your nervous system and its regulation and dysregulation can be mysterious buck luckily we love a helpful nerd alert around here. Let’s go over what polyvagal theory is, why we care, how it impacts our lives, and how it can be an important vessel for getting to know ourselves better. Polyvagal theory, as we think…
Read MoreEp #179: Getting Anchored with Roxanne Darrow
I’m so thrilled and grateful to bring you another conversation I had with one of my members of Anchored. This time, I’m speaking to the magnificent Roxanne Darrow. We’ve been working together for a few years, she’s just phenomenal, and I know you’re going to love her. Roxy Darrow is a ghostwriter who specializes in…
Read MoreEp #178: Your Future Self
We talked recently about your past self, and how vital it is to give that version of us love, care, and compassion for doing the darned best we could with the skills and tools we had at that moment of our lives. Beating ourselves up for being who we were taught to be keeps us…
Read MoreEp #177: Getting Anchored with Monica Schrock
I’m back this week with another tale of magnificent transformation from a member of the Anchored community. Monica Schrock was in the very first cohort of Anchored, and they’ve been in the alumni program for the last year and a half. They’re a freelance marketer, copywriter, and basketball superstar, and they’re going to inspire you…
Read MoreShowing Up For Your Nervous System In Tragedy
I’m not here to talk about a specific tragedy, but rather to talk about how we think about process, and sit with this level of grief, this level of tragedy. It starts with this: The purpose of thought-work is not to make us feel better. The purpose of thought-work is not to ignore what’s happening,…
Read MoreEp #176: Loving Your Past Self, Living with Compassion
When we start gaining awareness that it’s possible to ditch our old codependent, perfectionist, and people-pleasing thought habits, and we begin learning and living into new ways of being, it’s super common to get down on ourselves. We have a habit of speaking to and thinking of ourselves in such unkind and even cruel ways,…
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