Posts by Victoria Albina
Ep #53: The Secret Sauce to Healthy Relationships
As we continue discussing the topic of love here on the podcast this week, we’re diving into the world of healthy relationships. You might have an idea of what that constitutes, depending on what you’ve learned in childhood and into early adulthood, or what was modeled for you. But what I’ve learned about what makes…
Read MoreUnconditional Love: Because it Feels Good
One of the most important things I can share with you, my darling, is the power of unconditional love for yourself and all the people in your life. Unconditional love doesn’t mean self-sacrifice, or condoning, or approving of behaviors or beliefs that are in line with your own. Unconditional love is a gift you give…
Read MoreIntuitive Eating
As modern humans with access to food on-demand, 24/7 supermarkets, and delivery services, there are endless options of foods to eat. There are also thousands of experts out there proposing their own ideas of the perfect diet for the average human. And those recommendations are often conflicting. Are nitrates good or bad these days? What…
Read MoreEp #52: Unconditional Love
Unconditional love can be a tricky feeling state to harness at first, especially when you think that someone has caused you hurt in the past. Or if you’ve lived your life expecting the world to do you wrong. Though it can be hard to imagine now, this is how I used to go about my…
Read MoreSelf-Compassion and Dead-End Thinking
Self-compassion. How many times have you heard that term and kind of rushed on by it? I know it took me years to truly understand what it means to have compassion for myself and to act with self-compassion, to see my own pain and to attend to it deeply and with care, the way I…
Read MoreHypothyroid Is a Feminist Issue
. As a functional medicine practitioner, I work with so many people who are beyond fatigued. Perhaps your energy is low, your zest for life is waning. Your memory feels less than dependable, brain fog is a daily drain. You’ve been to your primary care provider, maybe even endocrinologist and were told that everything was…
Read MoreEp #51: Self-Compassion, Dead-End Thinking and the Emotional U-Turn
We’re diving into our topic for the month of February, which is going to be all around self-love and unconditional love for the world. To start off, today, we’re turning our attention towards self-compassion. I know it took me years, if not decades, to truly understand what it meant to have compassion for myself and…
Read MoreThe Secret Sauce to Healthy Relationships
What does it mean to have a healthy relationship with other humans? Does it mean putting up with all their foibles? Does it mean putting your own needs last? Taking care of them first and making sure they’re happy? While all of that may be what you learned or what was modeled for you growing up,…
Read MoreFuture Self Planning
One of the lessons that has been life-changing for me comes from cognitive-behavioral science. It’s that we have thoughts based on our history, our experiences, our socialization, our fears, worries, and our thoughts create our feelings. We take action based on our feelings and those actions create our lived experience in this world. It is…
Read MorePositive Self-Regard: Believe in Your Inherent Worth
Your thoughts create your feelings, my darling. And if your brain is used to thinking that you are anything less than amazing and magical, then you will feel that same way. The truth is you get to decide what you think about you. No one else’s opinion matters. And when you think the very best…
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