Embodiment, Agency, and Choicefulness with María-Victoria Albina

Labels like co-dependent, perfectionist, and people-pleaser get used constantly. We’re told we shouldn’t be those things.

But for many of us, those labels stem from survival skills we learned in our early lives. And reliance on labels can actually undermine our ability to heal from these behavioral patterns.

María-Victoria Albina joins Erica for a discussion of survival skills, authenticity, embodiment, agency, and choicefulness within the systems of white supremacist patriarchy, colonization, and capitalism.

 

In this discussion:

• How labels like codependent, perfectionist, and people-pleaser undermine healing

• Why problematizing the survival skills many of us learned as children is problematic in itself

• How white wellness’s emphasis on authenticity diminishes the multi-faceted nature of being human

• How our nervous systems impact embodiment, agency, and choicefulness 

Connect with María-Victoria Albina:

• Website

• Instagram: @victoriaalbinawellness

• Feminist Wellness Podcast

• Anchored: Overcoming Codependency

Resources:

• Download María-Victoria’s Free Meditations and Exercises

Ready to dive deeper?

Joy and connection can provide powerful counterbalances to the systems of white supremacy. We need reminders that it is possible to recenter, repair, and restore what has been stolen, damaged, or degraded by white supremacy.

Counterbalances that remind us that we never have to allow our humanity to be on the table for negotiation provide us access to action that move us further away from white supremacy.

We are addressing these counterbalances and navigating change together in The Pause on the Play® Community.

If you’re looking for a supportive, centering space on your journey, learn more about The Community at pauseontheplay.com/community