Posts by Victoria Albina
Perfectionism: Keeping Your Enemy Close
Perfectionism is a mindset, a thought habit, often informed by your childhood and societal lessons. A belief that you are anything other than completely perfect and worthy of love exactly as you are. This thought habit can keep you chasing your proverbial tail, always trying to prove your worth to the world and to yourself.…
Read MoreBonus Podcast Episode 2: COVID-19/Corona – Anxiety, Stress & Thought Work for Healing
My beautiful perfect love. This is a time of global freak out. The air is full with panic, worry, stress, anxiety… but that doesn’t mean you need to be. You have the skills and resources within you to calm and soothe your perfect mind, body and spirit. I’ve made two special bonus episodes of the…
Read MoreBonus Podcast Episode 1: COVID-19/Corona – Regulating Your Stress Response
My beautiful perfect love. This is a time of global freak out. The air is full with panic, worry, stress, anxiety… but that doesn’t mean you need to be. You have the skills and resources within you to calm and soothe your perfect mind, body and spirit. I’ve made two special bonus episodes of the…
Read MoreHow to Stop Worrying for Good
Few things are as ubiquitous as worry. We all say it. We all do it. And it steals your joy, my darling. Worry takes you out of the present moment and keeps you from taking action to make your life the intentional thoughtful life you dream of living. Today, I’ll be detailing the steps you…
Read MoreWorry and Your Nervous System
Do you find yourself rolling around in worry, not taking action in your life or spinning in your thoughts about what a symptom or a situation could mean, feeling paralyzed by not knowing the future, spending your time now worrying about something that might happen, or might not? Worry is so common and it keeps…
Read MorePerfectionism: Why B+ Work is Key to Healing
Perfectionism is a sneaky little thought habit indeed. It keeps us running in a perpetual hamster wheel of self-doubt, self-loathing, and never enoughness. So what is perfectionism? And how do we know if perfectionist thinking is what’s driving us? How can we distinguish goal- setting, ambition, desire, passion for our work, from perfectionism? Perfectionist thought…
Read MoreEp #56: Perfectionism
Today, we’re talking about perfectionist thought habits, which is something I coach pretty much all my clients through, and something that was very much a part of my everyday life for a long time too. Perfectionist thinking is sneaky and insidious and can be extremely challenging to identify in yourself, so on this episode, I’m…
Read MoreBuffering
Our society teaches us, in so many direct and insidious ways, that there is no need to sit with painful feelings. That you can pop a pill, have a drink, eat an indulgent food, fire off an email or a comment online and all those challenging feelings will just melt away. But the truth is,…
Read MoreOne Year of the Feminist Wellness Podcast!
HELLO HELLO MY LOVE! I’m thrilled to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the Feminist Wellness podcast! It’s been such an exciting year and I’ve been so honored to be able to share the show with you every week. And because I love you sooooo much, I have a special treat for 4 lucky listeners….…
Read MoreBegin to Heal Intergenerational Codependency
Codependent thinking habits can be so ingrained in us that we don’t even recognize when we’re having them. Putting others before ourselves and caring more about what other people think of us than what we think of ourselves are classic signs of codependency. And while codependent thinking is so often thought to be the product…
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