What happens when your body forgets how to feel safe? In this episode, Erin is talking to Beatriz Victoria Albina, a Family Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and author of End Emotional Outsourcing – to explore the link between codependency, perfectionism, and chronic stress.
“Emotional outsourcing” develops as a survival strategy for safety, belonging, and worth, and it can leave us feeling completely disconnected from our bodies and unable to regulate our nervous systems.
Bea explains how somatic awareness helps rebuild interoception, restore digestion, and rebalance the body’s stress response and HOW these patterns show up in everything from poor boundaries to physical symptoms like constipation and fatigue. If you’ve ever struggled with people-pleasing, burnout, or the pressure to hold it all together, this powerful framework will help you return home to yourself.
In this episode:
- How emotional outsourcing shows up as “brilliant survival strategies” like perfectionism, people-pleasing, and codependency
- Why we jump away from imagined cobras as self-protection, and how somatic awareness can help
- How chronic stress rewires your nervous system and literally halts digestion (THIS could be why you feel constipated or constantly run down!)
- The rise of “therapy-speak” and rigid boundary-setting, and why it has left many of us disconnected
- Why you need to stop outsourcing your safety, worth, and validation and begin the lifelong work of self-sourcing your own power, clarity, and calm
Resources mentioned:
Check out Beatriz’s book, End Emotional Outsourcing
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