Victoria Albina (she/her/ella) a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner, an herbalist, and a nervous system expert.
In this episode, Eryn and Victoria discuss:
- Her journey with health and healing
- How the stories we tell about ourselves and the world impact our somatic experience of life
- Vagus nerve and polyvagal theory!
- Different nervous system states
- Perceiving threat
- Finding safety in the nervous system slowly and steadily
- Allowing your body to complete the energy of what it wanted to do in a challenging moment
- Hypervigilance after trauma
- Self-love
- The fawn response, codependence, and people pleasing
- Attachment theory
- All of this existing in context of oppressive systems
Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/maria-victoria-albina
Connect with Eryn on their substack, Joy Notes. Explore the Religious Trauma Support workbook.
Download Victoria's free suite of meditations and nervous system orienting exercises.
Tune into Victoria's Feminist Wellness podcast and connect with her on Instagram @victoriaalbinawellness.
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