Sending so much love to all of you affected by the Coronavirus Crisis. To help with keeping things normal in your daily routines, to give you things to do during this extra time we have and most importantly- tools to help with the anxiety of these uncertain times, I wanted to share today’s episode with you. One of probably the most important conversations we have had on the show, in today’s episode we explore how trauma shows up in our lives and in our bodies, and how to use healing modalities such as breathwork and meditation to help heal. Today’s guest on the show, Victoria Albina, will blow you away with her likeability yet nerdy, research driven vibes.   Victoria Albina, NP, MPH is a Certified Life Coach, Certified Breathwork Journey Meditation Facilitator and Holistic Nurse Practitioner who is on a mission to help women raised by alcoholics and codependents to heal their relationship with themselves: mind, body and spirit so they can live confident, healthy lives free from anxiety, stress and overwhelm.   As a Feminist Confidence Coach and host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, Victoria teaches women how to live with confidence and radical, unapologetic self-love. With 20 years in health & wellness, Victoria brings cognitive psychology, somatic healing, neuroscience and feminist theory to her work, providing both a unique framework for understanding the effects of the patriarchy and capitalism on women’s mental and physical health, and an effective yet simple protocol for rewriting harmful old thought patterns to release anxiety and insecurity and to feel confident instead.   A former primary care provider and Functional Medicine expert, Victoria came to understand that the deepest root-cause healing work her patients were seeking was not found in lab work, supplements, prescriptions and restrictive nutrition plans. While all of that is an important part of the healing process, sustainable, long-lasting healing comes when we attend to mind, body and spirit, by healing our nervous systems and learning to manage the thought-patterns that keep us stuck and sick. By learning to look at our childhood wounds, our adult thought patterns, our somatic experience of challenging emotions and our energetics, Victoria guides women to a deeper place of health and healing – healing that lasts a lifetime.   In this episode we discuss: Victoria’s journey to becoming a certified life coach, certified breathwork journey meditation facilitator and holistic nurse practitioner. How trauma impacts our health and wellness and how it shows up physically and mentally How microtraumas still impact your health How to heal trauma so that you can heal your health issues The scientific benefits to breathwork and meditation Victoria’s top tips to beginning a breathing and meditation daily practice What the mind body spirit connection means How Victoria practices wellness without obsession   Learn more about Victoria Albina: Victoria's website Victoria's Instagram  Victoria's podcast Victoria's free breathwork guide   Thank you to today’s podcast sponsors:   Thank you to one of our podcast sponsors, Simple Mills. Simple Mills is on a mission to enrich the lives of their customers by providing simple, delicious food.    Their products are just that. Simple, yet delicious and as a foodie- I love including these delicious goodies in our groceries each week. While I personally eat gluten, these are a great option for those in my community who do need to be gluten free.   I have a love affair with many of their products- don’t even get me started on the crunchy chocolate chip cookies, but today we are going to share one of their newest products you can find at the grocery store, their soft baked almond flour bars. With four flavors available, you must get your hands on these delicious bars, too! Purchase at Simple Mills website, on Amazon and you can find Simple Mills at most health food stores and grocery stores too. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do