Have you ever felt like you betrayed yourself?

We live in a culture that teaches us to forsake our own wants in favor of serving others. We operate from a place of “I’m fine,” and get stuck in functional freeze, even when from the outside it appears we’re successful.

María-Victoria Albina joins Erica for a discussion about resentment and obligation, setting and holding standards, and tending to your nervous system as you pursue embodiment and change.

In this discussion:

• Changing the narrative on obligation
• Why setting standards and boundaries is a part of a self-reclamation
• How our nervous systems get stuck in functional freeze
• Why pushing too hard for ourselves to change can backfire

Connect with María Victoria Albina:

• Website
• Instagram: @victoriaalbinawellness
• Feminist Wellness Podcast
• Anchored: Overcoming Codependency

Resources:
Embodiment, Agency, and Choicefulness with María-Victoria Albina

• Download María-Victoria’s Free Meditations and Exercises
• Ratchet and Respectable Podcast
• Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, Susan Cain

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