Posts by Victoria Albina
Ep #66: Compare and Despair
Most of us are at home right now with a lot of time on our hands. You’re most likely buffering in a few ways, but one that’s common is using things like social media, scrolling Instagram, and seeing that other people seem to be doing so much and being so productive. Your heart might sink…
Read MoreEmotional Childhood
As children, we have limited capacity to control our emotions, and even less ability to take ownership over our behavior. Because we’re kiddos – and developmentally, we just aren’t there yet. As physical adults, we can easily slip back into an emotionally childlike state where our inner child is calling the shots, keeping us from…
Read MoreEp #65: Self-Confidence
It’s pretty common for most people to think that self-confidence is either something someone is born with or repeatedly taught in their childhood or something that comes with achieving external success. My love, no one is just born with self-confidence. It’s something that everyone can have, and my goal today is to show you how…
Read MoreInner Child
In childhood, we learned to survive, to please our parents, our teachers, to label our behavior internally as either all good or all bad and to make it mean something about us as beings. We learned to think in black and white ways because that’s what children do, and to judge ourselves where we fell…
Read MoreEp #64: Letting Go of Resentment
If you’re like most humans who are moving through life with codependent or perfectionist thought habits, you’re most likely no stranger to resentment. Whether it comes up for you when your partner keeps forgetting to take out the trash, or when a parent says something that upsets you, choosing resentment and holding onto it is…
Read MoreEp #63: How to Make the Right Decision
Something I hear a lot from my clients is this struggle to make decisions, that there’s this air of nervousness around worrying about making the right decision, or even small ones in their day-to-day lives. If you resonate with this and find yourself often avoiding decision-making, this episode is for you. Codependency and perfectionism both…
Read MoreYou’re a Human Being Not a Human Doing
Self-love and self-care are such common buzzwords right now. If your social media feed is anything like mine, it’s full up on posts about self-care and the best ways to do it. And it often seems to involve lying on some perfect Grecian island with cucumbers on your eyes wrapped in seaweed as your…
Read MoreEp #62: Glimmers
Your world right now might be full of triggers as you’re quarantining at home with other people or by yourself. If you’re experiencing challenging thoughts or relationship patterns right now, this can feel like it’s negatively impacting your emotional and physical wellness, and so today, I’m sharing a concept that will act as an antidote…
Read MoreFeel All Your Feels – Give It All Equal Air Time (COVID-19 quarantine bonus)
Hello hello my love. Welcome to another special COVID-19 episode. Today we’re going to be talking about a simple strategy for managing all the feelings that are up right now – the pressure to DO and Accomplish and Produce right now, the pressure to deep clean your closet while working from home while…
Read MoreExpectations and the “How-To” Guide to Other Humans
Most of us run around this world all day with a thousand thoughts about how other people should be behaving. It’s so common to have a long list of things we expect from others, and it’s just as common to not tell them about the expectations we secretly have for them in our minds. We…
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