Mel Robbins is a former social justice lawyer, host of her own daytime syndicated talk show, and best-selling author. Her work includes the global phenomenon, The 5 Second Rule, four number one best-selling audiobooks, as well as signature online courses that have changed the lives of more than half a million students worldwide.
As a scholar and student of my own brain, relentlessly committed to evolving my mind so I can live an extremely examined and intentional life, something fascinating has been happening that hasn’t occurred for me in a long time. I’ve been completely puzzled and perplexed about a feeling that keeps flaring up, seemingly out of nowhere, and I don’t know what the fuck is going on with my brain.
Coaching is like magic when you’ve identified a “problem” and want help creating something new in your life. I can’t seem to speak up in meetings without having a panic attack. Every time my mother speaks I want to scream. I want to make a million dollars but I’m afraid
Victoria Albina is a health and life coach who trained as a family nurse practitioner. In her coaching practice, she specializes in helping women take their lives back from codependent, perfectionist, and people-pleasing thought habits, and she’s here this week to show us why codependency is a feminist issue, and how it relates to our nervous systems.
Learning to love yourself as you are and believing you are deserving of compassion, care and support is no joke. We all have wounded parts and primitive instincts or patterns of dysfunction that we carry with us, and committing to the process we call self-development to heal often feels terrible. To talk us through what happens when we become radically truthful with ourselves, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Shefali Tsabary.
Women especially waste so much time and energy being obsessed with imagining what other people are thinking, trying to change what they’re thinking, feeling, or doing, and adapting our behaviors based on what we think is going on for them. As usual, there’s nothing wrong with you if you notice this happening in your life, but it’s a losing game that we can learn to turn around.