Listen in today as I invite you to make becoming anti-racist a practice, and encourage you to come to this work with self-compassion and gentleness for yourself. Shame and guilt are never useful, and showing up however you can will help you bring consciousness to your internal biases, push you out of your comfort zone, and take action. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/69
Jun 11, 2020•40 min
The work that you have to start doing to interrupt the vicious people-pleasing cycles that we get stuck in, and why embracing discomfort is such a vital part of this process. I also address how the tools I share on the podcast will hopefully be helpful in the fight to address racism and dismantle white supremacy in our current climate. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/68
Jun 04, 2020•29 min
Join me this week as I show you why people-pleasing leaves you overwhelmed, exhausted, and ultimately, displeased. I’m inviting you to cultivate awareness this week about how you’re living these habits out in your life, where they came from, and how they’re impacting you in your day-to-day. And make sure to tune in next week where I’ll be sharing the remedies to help you shift through this thought habit! Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/67...
May 28, 2020•34 min
Join me on the podcast this week as I share how evolution, the patriarchy, capitalism, and the way you’ve been socialized all play a part in the compare and despair thought habit, and some remedies to help you shift through them. The key here is to prioritize your opinion of your own beautiful self over anyone else’s, and I’m sharing some ways for you to do that today. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/66...
May 21, 2020•34 min
Listen in this week as I show you how it’s totally possible for you to be kind, loving, and accepting of yourself, and why this is the key to building lasting and sustainable self-confidence. Imagining the regret, disappointment, or other people’s judgments of their endeavors stops most from going after their dreams, but this doesn’t have to be you. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/65
May 14, 2020•48 min
Join me on the podcast this week to discover how resentment makes it impossible for you to operate from a place of power, and why it’s so problematic. While resentment can feel like the easy response in the short-term, I’m showing you why letting go of it is so life-changing, and the remedy to release it. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/64
May 07, 2020•43 min
Join me on the podcast today to discover how codependency and perfectionist thought habits keep you stuck in confusion and worry, how to start the process of trusting yourself and having your own back, and why you need to get comfortable with the discomfort of making decisions. I’m also outlining a set of prompts and questions you can use to help you make decisions in your best interest, with less confusion, stress, and more clarity. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victori...
Apr 30, 2020•51 min
Join me today as I show you what glimmers are, and how they can act as an antidote or remedy to your triggers. It’s going to get nerdy, as usual, and I’ll be diving into polyvagal theory to show you how triggers play out in our bodies and minds, and how glimmers can be such a gift in response to them. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/62
Apr 23, 2020•24 min
In this special episode Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, life coach and nurse practitioner, shares a simple tool to help you give all of your feelings the Equal Air Time they deserve: the grief, the anger, the disappointment and the moments of joy and peace. If you’re struggling to find balance between your competing feelings, the messaging about being “productive” vs resting, this one is for you.
Apr 18, 2020•26 min
Join me this week as I show you how our current experiences of safety and danger are particularly poignant in relation to our nervous system responses. I’m sharing various remedies and antidotes that you can start practicing when you notice yourself getting activated. You’ll be able to use this framework to unpack your experiences, to shift them with more intention, love, and gentleness for yourself. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/61...
Apr 16, 2020•51 min
Join me this week as I break down the thought work protocol and show you how to use it to create an intentional protocol, to decide ahead time how you want to feel and what actions you’ll take from there. You’ll be able to see how grasping at false control is causing you so much pain and suffering, and I’m offering a set of guiding questions you can use to start releasing your desire to control the uncontrollable. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/60...
Apr 09, 2020•40 min
Join me this week as I show you why we want things to feel certain and within our control. During times like these, when our physical state is being threatened, it especially makes sense to find yourself feeling a whole spectrum of emotions about wanting other people to behave in a specific way. That said, practicing the tools and thought work protocol that I teach here on the podcast will help you bring gentleness and love to your brain’s immediate desire to control what you can’t. Get full sho...
Apr 02, 2020•41 min
The thought work protocol that I use to stay grounded and in control of my own mind, and that you can use in your own life too, regardless of the circumstances. Panicking and letting your brain freak out has negative consequences on your body, so learning to get comfortable with the fact that life is uncertain will help you bring more peace to yourself and the people around you. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/58...
Mar 26, 2020•51 min
Join me this week to slowly, gently heal your perfectionist thinking, to start creating a new relationship with yourself. We’re always going to encounter situations where our inner perfectionists are screaming at us with deafening criticisms, but I’m showing you how to start to bring awareness to your thinking and change your story to, maybe, even meet your perfectionist thoughts with love. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/57...
Mar 19, 2020•40 min
Join Victoria for a special episode in which she addresses the ways to shift your thinking to reflect the way you want to show up in the world in this moment of worldwide stress and panic. Find easy tools that you can use right away to help you feel less worry and more alignment. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/bonus-podcast-episode-1-covid-19-corona-regulating-your-stress-response/...
Mar 16, 2020•21 min
In this moment of global anxiety and worry about the novel Coronavirus, Victoria Albina, NP, MPH talks about how to support your nervous system to keep stress and sympathetic activation/fight or flight at bay and to keep your immune system working optimally by giving your body the love it needs. Tune in for helpful advice, simple breathing techniques and the grounding you need in this complex moment. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/bonus-podcast-episodes...
Mar 15, 2020•36 min
Join me this week to finally get off the perpetual hamster wheel that perfectionist thinking keeps us on, to distinguish this habit from being goal-oriented and ambitious, and to know if this is something that’s driving you in your day-to-day life. Make sure to tune in next week as I give you my top tips to start healing from these paralyzing thought patterns! Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/56
Mar 12, 2020•32 min•Ep. 56
To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the show, Victoria will be giving away FOUR sets of her organic essential oil rollers! Visit victoriaalbina.com/giveaway to enter!
Mar 08, 2020•6 min
Listen in this week to discover how you can start to undo and unravel the cycle of intergenerational codependency, to start the process of loving yourself unconditionally, and to know there is no moral failing or shame in having these experiences. I’m sharing the tools and tips that I used so that you can start practicing them too. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/55
Mar 05, 2020•46 min
I’ve talked about codependent behaviors in terms of autonomy and interdependency here, but today I’m taking a slightly different approach. This tendency is really sneaky and can be so subtle that it’s hard to see in yourself, so I’m here to get nerdy, as always, to define terms and help you identify if you’re showing some of these signs so you can start working through them and shift your thinking. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/54...
Feb 27, 2020•48 min
Today, I’m sharing the secret key to having the best relationships for you , why giving big love to and embracing your ‘shadow side’ is so crucial to your healing, and how working through difficult relationships is the way out of unhealthy relationship cycles. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/53
Feb 20, 2020•39 min
Why would you want to feel love towards someone who has wronged or failed you? This week, I want to show you the power of choosing unconditional love to thrive and to empower yourself , because the science proves that ruminating on upsetting thoughts negatively affects not only your mental wellness, but your physical body too. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/52
Feb 13, 2020•42 min
Join me this week to discover how you can show up as your own best friend, best ally, and best accomplice by building more self-compassion into your life. This process is key to your deep and lasting healing, to understand the habitual thoughts that are driven by your nervous system, and to live with intention. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/51
Feb 06, 2020•32 min
We’re often too quick to jump over any negative feeling that comes up because we’re human, and that’s okay, my love. My goal today is to remind you that bypassing these feelings can’t bring you the changes you want for your life and to, instead, give you a powerful way to start the healing process with love and compassion for yourself. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/50
Jan 30, 2020•42 min
Join me this week to start living into your fullest expression of your highest self, which will require discomfort in the short-term, but guaranteed joy and growth in the long-term. I’m sharing how you can start using these tools to start seeking ways to understand where you might be holding onto beliefs that aren’t serving you, so you can start living your life intentionally. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/49...
Jan 23, 2020•38 min
Lots of clients come to me for help in finding their passion or purpose, and I know this perpetual search can feel exhausting. Too many of you aren’t living on your own terms, having been taught to do what your parents think is right, or what society has told you is acceptable. This leaves you stressed, lost, confused, and most of all, it’s affecting your body. My goal this week is to help you find your why so you can start building the life you want. Get full show notes and more information her...
Jan 16, 2020•48 min
This week, I’m showing you how to set and meet your goals for 2020, while identifying and letting go of the stories that are acting as barriers to your dream life. We can’t erase our inner scripts from childhood or traumas, but we can change our relationship to them with thought work. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/47
Jan 09, 2020•33 min
This world needs you: not the person that you are when you’re putting everyone else first, but the unapologetic you. So I’m here to share the wish I have for you in 2020 and beyond, and to remind you of the wonderful human being that you are. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/46
Jan 02, 2020•21 min
Join me on the podcast this week for some help in bringing your “I wish” statements to the forefront of your consciousness, and to discover where they’re holding you back. Once we are clear on our unhelpful thought patterns, then we can begin to offer our brains something more useful. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/45
Dec 26, 2019•25 min
Join me on the podcast this week to discover how to break the cycle of viewing everything on the horizon through a negative lens and stop worrying for good. I’m sharing the tools to help you gain awareness of how worry is affecting the quality of your life in the present, as well as a step-by-step process to rationalize the circumstances of your life and take the effective action required to feel at ease. Get full show notes and more information here: https://victoriaalbina.com/44...
Dec 19, 2019•34 min
