THE FEMINIST WELLNESS PODCAST
Empowering wellness advice with a lot of science and a lot of heart.
If you’re stuck in an emotional pattern and feel like you can’t get free, if you’re still feeling frustrated, scared or anxious, despite all the self-help books you’ve read...this is the podcast for you. The Feminist Wellness podcast offers practical tools and advice to reconnect with that spark of passion in your life, to identify the thought patterns that serve you, and to say a long-time coming goodbye to the ones that hold you back.
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Ep #251: Thought Work & Somatics: Taking Back Your Brain with Kara Loewentheil
By Victoria Albina |
Expletive warning: This episode contains swearing. If you’re someone who has been socialized as a woman, you have absorbed a lifetime of sexist social messaging that says your worth is determined by your looks, accomplishments, and what other people think of you. You’re here because you want to break free from all of it, but…
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Ep #250: The Beauty/Power of Ritual with Jaguar Mary X
By Victoria Albina |
This week, you’re hearing a conversation about interdependence and the practice of connecting with ritual through the ages. My guest is Jaguar Mary X: a glossolalia vocalist, ritual performance artist and mover, and creator of Midday and Midnight Medicine Journey, who is making work informed by queer and Black feminist discourse, afro-futurisms, plant sentience, and…
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Ep #249: Food, Weight & Diet Talk: How to Find Greater Peace and Joy During the Holidays with Dana Monsees
By Victoria Albina |
Turkey Day is upon us once again, which means food, weight, and diet talk is about to become rife. This is a time when people feel they have free rein to comment on how we look and what we’re eating or not eating, which can be particularly challenging for those of us with emotional outsourcing…
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Ep #248: Functional Freeze (Part 3): The Remedies
By Victoria Albina |
Functional freeze is a very painful nervous system experience familiar to those of us living in emotional outsourcing. In the first two episodes of this series, we’ve looked at the how and why of functional freeze, as well as real-life experiences that can lead to functional freeze. Even though the mixed nervous system state of…
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Ep #247: Functional Freeze (Part 2): Real-Life Stories of How It Came to Be This Way
By Victoria Albina |
Last week, we began a vital conversation about the mixed nervous system state of functional freeze. We defined it, talked about what it looks like in practice, and learned that it’s a super common experience for those of us prone to emotional outsourcing. This week in part two, we’re asking the question: how did it…
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Ep #246: Functional Freeze (Part 1)
By Victoria Albina |
This week, we’re taking a deep dive into a topic I can’t believe I haven’t already discussed on the show! The nervous system state of functional freeze, which I also like to call somatic self-disconnection, is what I’m most passionate about in my work. It’s part and parcel of the emotional outsourcing experience. So what…
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