Your Thoughts Create Your Physiologic Reality with Victoria Albina

The Simplicity Sessions

Today, I am excited to share a great talk I had with Victoria Albina during which we discussed very common themes in women’s lives. From what it’s like being “the good girl”, “the fixer” and taking on other people’s burdens and emotions. We talk about how to get ourselves out of these patterns while also becoming more observant rather than reactive.

Victoria Albina is a Certified Life Coach and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping women realize that they are their own best healers, so they can break free from codependency, perfectionism, and people-pleasing and reclaim their joy.

She is a UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner, has a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health, and a BA in Latin American Studies from Oberlin College. Victoria has been working in health & wellness for over 20 years and lives on occupied Lenape territory in New York's Hudson Valley.

Here are the main topics of this amazing conversation:

• Victoria talks about her own healing journey.
• Victoria shares how she leads her practice.
• Expectations, obligations, and conceptualization of self can become patterns that deregultate the nervous system.
• The state of your nervous systems dictates the story that you feed into your body.
• What is the polyvagal system?
• How do you begin the work after you raise your awareness?
• Acceptance can be really challenging.
• Working on your balance.
• How we use distractions to get away from certain feelings.
• The role of dopamine in your body.
• Choose your actions intentionally.
• Learn to separate the circumstances of life and our thoughts.
• Victoria gives advice to those women who are ready to make the mindset shift but struggle with the consequences that this might bring to their relationships.
• Trust yourself to love yourself.
• Victoria shares her favorite tool against personal criticism.

Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!

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Quotes:

“People who are struggling with their digestion are the meanest to themselves, thinking that their bodies are working against them.”

“The thoughts we keep feeding into our nervous system create our physiologic reality.”

“Awareness, acceptance, and action.”

“We can let ourselves feel off balance while telling our bodies that we are safe.”

“Honor your impulses and urges, keep the conversation with them.”

“Learn to separate the circumstances of life and our thoughts.”

“Ask yourself, is this a fact or a thought? Choose your own version of reality”

“A lot of thyroid imbalances are a result of not speaking your truth.”

“The more you trust yourself, the less it matters what everyone else thinks, does or says.”

“With self-trust we build self-love.”

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.