Posts by Victoria Albina
Feel All Your Feels – Give It All Equal Air Time (COVID-19 quarantine bonus)
Hello hello my love. Welcome to another special COVID-19 episode. Today we’re going to be talking about a simple strategy for managing all the feelings that are up right now – the pressure to DO and Accomplish and Produce right now, the pressure to deep clean your closet while working from home while…
Read MoreThe Nervous System & Your Health and Wellness
We’re going to be geeking out all about the nervous system with a focus on what you need to know to live your most intentional life, and why all this nervous system talk matters for your mental and physical health. This is a topic that is very much top of mind for me because, well,…
Read MoreExpectations and the “How-To” Guide to Other Humans
Most of us run around this world all day with a thousand thoughts about how other people should be behaving. It’s so common to have a long list of things we expect from others, and it’s just as common to not tell them about the expectations we secretly have for them in our minds. We…
Read MoreBonus Podcast Episode 3: COVID-19/Corona – Feeling All Your Feelings – Equal Air Time
As this pandemic quarantine stretches out into a second month, you may be struggling to find your footing. To find the balance between “doing” and “being.” Between being “lazy” and “productive.” In this episode I offer a remedy: giving it all Equal Air Time in your mind. Holding the fact that yes, sometimes you are…
Read MoreEp #61: The Nervous System & Your Health and Wellness
Something I bring up often on the podcast is that it is vital to understand your nervous system so that you can have awareness and name what’s going on for you. Without knowing what is going on, you can’t actively support yourself and it’s much more challenging to know what the next right thing to…
Read MoreCoping Mechanisms and Obsessive Thoughts
Functional medicine is so much more than choking down a fistful of supplements every day or doing a dozen lab tests. I believe deeply in root cause medicine. And the longer I do this work, the more clarity I have that self-love is the key to healing. It is only from a place of true…
Read MoreEp #60: Antidotes to Control
Last week, we dove into the concept of control and why we, as humans, have the desire to control what is ultimately uncontrollable. On the podcast today, I’m offering some antidotes and remedies to help you move through that desire to control, to help you feel better by attending to what you can control: you.…
Read MoreAntidotes to Control: Focus on What You Can Choose
It’s alluring to think we can control anything other than ourselves, that telling others what to do, how to do it, when, where, and why will help you to feel less out of control. But nothing could be farther from the truth, my love. Seeking control leaves you feeling out of control. There are ways…
Read MoreNegative Self-Talk
We’ve all done it. we’ve all heard ourselves say, “Oh, I’m the kind of person who doesn’t eat vegetables, who doesn’t work out, who doesn’t finish what I started, whose always late, who doesn’t drink water, who always procrastinates, who gets angry at the drop of a hat, who’s always anxious, who is a workaholic,…
Read MoreEp #59: Understanding Your Desire to Control
This week, we’re talking about control, the cousin of uncertain thinking, which we discussed in the last episode. I’m not here to tell you that your negative thoughts aren’t valid, but being able to take a challenging situation and pause to look at your individual thoughts is going to stop you from turning it into…
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