Posts by Victoria Albina
Ep #55: Intergenerational Codependency
I’m so excited to spend another week with you talking about a topic I’m so passionate about. Codependent habits and behaviors were such a big part of my life for so long, and so many of the folks I coach are also working on healing their own patterns, so I know this will be helpful…
Read MoreFuture Tripping
I’ve been thinking a lot about future-tripping, also called anticipatory anxiety. Those times when we get so lost in worrying about the future and playing out different future scenarios, often the most doom and gloom filled ones, that we lose out on today. This used to be my brain’s favorite distraction technique, to keep…
Read MoreEp #54: 6 Surprising Codependent Habits
This week, I’m bringing back a topic that I’ve talked about before on the show: codependency. This is one of my absolute favorite subjects to talk about and I find it so fascinating, especially having had these tendencies myself and having done the work – and, let’s be real, still doing it occasionally because I’m…
Read MoreSix Surprising Codependent Habits
I lived the first 30 years or so of my life rolling around in codependent thought patterns and habits, until I realized how deeply this way of thinking and showing up in the world had seeped into my mind, into my thoughts and feelings, leading me to act in ways that I now see as…
Read MoreSleep
Sleep, and lack thereof, is a major issue for our mental and physical wellness. When we don’t get enough sleep, it’s hard to show up with our best selves. To not be irritable, sad, angry, and brain fogged. If sleep is elusive in your beautiful life, if you’re getting in bed for enough hours but…
Read MoreEp #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…
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