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How to Survive Thanksgiving When You’re Healing From Emotional Outsourcing

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / November 19, 2025

It’s that time of year again. American Thanksgiving is next week, and if you’re already feeling that familiar dread in your body, you’re not alone. Every year around this time,…

Why Your Nervous System Craves Closure and Constant Reassurance in Relationships

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / November 18, 2025

Today, we are diving into two powerful questions around heartbreak, healing, and connection: Why do I keep replaying old conversations with my ex and craving closure, even though I know…

Why You Need to Celebrate Your People-Pleasing Habits (Yes, Really)

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / November 13, 2025

The Hidden Genius Behind Your People-Pleasing Patterns Picture this: You’re drowning in sticky notes reminding yourself to “be nice.” You’re replying to emails nobody expected you to answer. You’re RSVPing…

How to Release Suppressed Anger and Stop Overfunctioning at Work

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / November 11, 2025

Two powerful questions came into the Feminist Wellness community this week, and they both speak directly to something so many of us carry every day: the emotional cost of living…

How to Stop Over-Functioning in Relationships and Start Building Real Intimacy

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / November 5, 2025

Are you always the one holding it all together? Do you feel responsible for managing the emotions, choices, and lives of the people around you? If so, you may be…

The Third Arrow: How to Stop Shaming Yourself This Thanksgiving (Buddhist Psychology Guide)

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / November 5, 2025

The Third Arrow: How to Stop Shaming Yourself This Thanksgiving (Buddhist Psychology Guide) by Beatriz Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP Bestselling Author of End Emotional Outsourcing and host of the…

Understanding Seasonal Affective Disorder: Symptoms, Science, and Support That Actually Helps

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / November 4, 2025

Understanding Seasonal Affective Disorder Listen, should we have talked about Seasonal Affective Disorder two months ago when the leaves first started dropping and the sky went gray? Probably. I was…

The Vampire Invitation: Why People Ignore Your Boundaries and How to Hold Your “No” with Power

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / October 29, 2025

The Vampire Invitation: When “No” Becomes a Negotiation You know how vampires can’t come into your house unless you invite them in? The same goes for the emotional vampires in…

How to Set Nervous System Boundaries When You’re Met With Defensiveness

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / October 28, 2025

Welcome back to the Tenderoni Hotline, where I answer your real, beautiful, and brave questions about somatics, the nervous system, emotional outsourcing, and so much more. If you have a…

How to Navigate Life with an Emotionally Immature Partner Without Losing Yourself

By Beatriz Victoria Albina / October 23, 2025

Last week, we talked about what it looks like to be in relationship with an emotionally immature partner. Those confusing conversations where you show up hoping to be heard but…