Episode 531: Navigating Triggers and Calming the Nervous System with Maria-Victoria Albina

“Trust that you can feel any feeling and not perish,” says Maria-Victoria Albina. Yes, we are talking about big emotions in this week’s episode. Maria-Victoria joins me for a conversation about calming the nervous system and expanding emotional capacity. We also explore how small acts of self-love help you build self-trust and feel emotionally safe. 

María-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 realize that they are their own best healers by reconnecting with their bodies and minds, so they can break free from codependency, perfectionism and people-pleasing and reclaim their joy.

Featured topics: 

• Emotional outsourcing and what it has to do with co-dependent, perfectionist, and people-pleasing thinking (4:28)
• Signs and symptoms that let you know when you are being triggered and how to feel safe when our nervous system is activated (6:43)
• Bottling up big emotions impacts our bodies, and how we can expand our capacity to feel our big feelings (22:34)
• Collective healing: what it looks like and how can we shift our thinking away from the patriarchal model of individual healing (38:37)

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