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Jan 2025
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Regulate Your Nervous System & Get out o...

DANIELLE HAMILTON, FNTP
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Victoria Albina (she/her) is a Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping humans socialized as women reconnect with their bodies and minds, so they can break free from codependency, perfectionism and people-pleasing and reclaim their joy. 

She is the host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, is trained in Somatic Experiencing, holds 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 Munsee Lenape territory in New York.

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ON TODAY'S EPISODE

  • What role does the nervous system play in overall health and wellness?
  • How does dysregulation of the nervous system impact both mental and physical health?
  • What is the autonomic nervous system, and why is it important for managing stress?
  • How does sympathetic activation work, and why is it important in the stress response?
  • What is functional freeze, and how does it affect emotional processing?
  • How can childhood experiences and conditioning lead to nervous system dysregulation later in life?
  • What are some common signs of emotional numbness or functional freeze, and how can we recognize them?
  • How does blood sugar influence emotional well-being and nervous system responses?
  • Why is it important to de-pathologize our nervous system and recognize its responses as normal?
  • What steps can we take to heal from nervous system dysregulation and regain emotional balance?

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