Posts by Victoria Albina

This week, we are reviewing one of my absolute favorite topics to geek out on: polyvagal theory. Polyvagal theory is an incredibly helpful way to better understand our lived experiences and nervous systems, which is why it’s one of the main tenets of all the work I do across my various programs. There is often…

Do you struggle to set boundaries with the people in your life? Are you prone to prioritizing everyone else’s well-being first, often not even realizing you have needs of your own? Are you in constant hyperdrive mode, striving to do more and more, only to eventually burn yourself out? This week’s topic is one I…

Last week, we talked all about feeling our feelings somatically and the myriad of reasons doing so can help us live richer, more fulfilling lives with more connection to ourselves and our loved ones. You heard in detail why we don’t feel our feelings, and in part two today, we’re exploring the how-to of feeling…

This week, we’re talking about feeling our feelings somatically. “Feeling your feelings” is a term you may have seen all over social media, and it can be an incredibly supportive and loving thing to do. However, as we do here on Feminist Wellness, we also need to proceed with caution and care when it comes…

This week, we’re exploring that super-cringe feeling of explaining ourselves, or rather, overexplaining ourselves. Whether you know full well that this is a pattern you find yourself in, or you haven’t quite identified it yet, this tends to be the chronic experience of life for those of us with emotional outsourcing tendencies. How do we…

Codependency, perfectionism, and people pleasing are just a few behaviors we lean on to cope with feelings of criticism, judgment, and shame. They’re survival skills that help us tread the waters when we feel like we’re drowning, but while they’re coping mechanisms that work temporarily, they often leave us totally exhausted. This week, I’m speaking…

I’ve been looking for new and creative ways to revisit the topics I’ve covered here on the podcast, so I asked my Anchored folks what their favorites have been. The winner was an episode from a year and a half ago all about being the cake, and whether this is brand new to you or…

As a birth doula, abortion doula, hospice nurse, and now coach, being able to guide and support those who are transitioning from one way of being into another is an honor. However, with transitions come grief, and whether it relates to death or non-death losses, it’s a topic we don’t talk about enough. That’s why…

Offering unsolicited advice is a habit that can so easily go unnoticed. For me personally, it always stemmed from a genuine desire to help or connect with others, and often felt like I was just bursting at the seams to share everything I knew from a nice, loving, or generous place. However, what we don’t…

Were you raised by emotionally immature parents? Do you have a niggling feeling you might be an emotionally immature parent? Are the challenges that you faced in your childhood coming up in the course of parenting your kiddos or in reparenting yourself?  Even the most emotionally stable among us will have times when we can’t…