Victoria Albina
Victoria Albina is a Certified Life Coach and Certified Breathwork Meditation Facilitator with a passion for helping women with their most important relationship: the one with themselves. She’s also a nurse practitioner and functional medicine expert with a Master’s degree in Public Health as well as a certified breathwork facilitator, an herbalist, a life coach, and the host of the Feminist Wellness podcast.
She is 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. She has been working in health & wellness for over 20 years and has a passion for helping women to heal mind, body and spirit.
Victoria shares her journey coming to this work after a lifetime of being sick, and her realization that her mindset, thoughts, and sense of self were all at the core of her health issues. After a lifetime of co-dependent and perfectionist thinking, she decided it was time to make a change. Keeping others happy with her, and approving of her, was more important than her joy. She kept coming up short, because she wasn’t in alignment with her own authentic self. She was living for other people, and it showed in her physical and mental health. It wasn’t until she learned to listen deeply to her body, to feel her feelings, which she had been expertly avoiding for decades, how to understand and give love to her nervous system responses, and that her thoughts create her feelings, that everything began to shift.
“I came to realize just how much my patients mindset, their sense of self, their stories about themselves and their health, their identity as sick people, as broken, as people in need of healing, was holding them back. What they really needed was to know in their bones that they are their own medicine, that each of us has the power to heal ourselves from the inside out. There is no physical health without mental health, and if you’re not your number one priority, you’re no one’s number one priority.”
Tune in on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bZHrtjAzbksbLWNaak1NM
Tune in on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-of-inspiring-joy/id1510488632
To learn more about Victoria, her free meditations, and her work visit her website https://victoriaalbina.com and on Instagram @victoriaalbinawellness and on Facebook @VictoriaAlbinaWellness
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