{"podcast":{"title":"Feminist Wellness","slug":"feminist-wellness-15519","podcast_index_feed_id":15519,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/feminist-wellness/","website_url":"https://beatrizalbina.com/podcast/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/a7586ad9-3301-41e7-82b3-5666835690fe/-hV1YQpPtas-bb50LBxFAVDp.jpg","author":"Béa Victoria Albina","episode_count":444,"summary":"You weren't born anxious, depleted, and second-guessing yourself. You were taught to be. The Feminist Wellness podcast is where nervous system science meets the truth nobody wants to say out loud: most of what you think is \"self-care\" is just performing wellness while your body stays stuck in survival mode. Host Béa Victoria Albina - NP, life coach, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner - breaks down the codependent, perfectionist, and people-pleasing habits that keep you trapped in what she calls Emotional Outsourcing™: constantly looking outside yourself for permission, validation, and proof that you're enough. This isn't another show about bubble baths and boundaries. It's about understanding why your body says yes when you mean no, why rest feels impossible, and how to stop treating your own needs like an inconvenience. If you're done white-knuckling your way through life, performing okayness while feeling like you're constantly failing some invisible test, this show will help you see what's actually happening - and what becomes possible when you stop abandoning yourself to please everyone else. New episodes weekly. Start anywhere.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T14:21:04.766597+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/feminist-wellness-15519"},"episode":{"title":"Ep #377: The Story of Overwhelm","slug":"ep-377-the-story-of-overwhelm","published_at":"2026-05-07T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/feminist-wellness-15519/ep-377-the-story-of-overwhelm","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/feminist-wellness-15519","url":"https://beatrizalbina.com/the-story-of-overwhelm/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9d5f69c7-ca9f-4f42-90a9-aed9870ba6d5.mp3","summary":"#377: What if saying “I’m overwhelmed” is sometimes about more than just naming your exhaustion? If you’ve been living in chronic overdrive, collapsing under endless demands, or feeling trapped between doing too much and shutting down completely, this episode invites you to look beneath the surface of overwhelm itself. In this episode, I unpack how overwhelm is not only a real nervous system state, but can also become a protective story that shields us from the vulnerability of directly claiming our limits, needs, and boundaries. I explore how perfectionism, emotional outsourcing, and fear of being perceived as selfish can keep us performing overwhelm instead of consciously choosing what truly aligns with our capacity. Join me today to learn how overwhelm can become a hidden strategy for preserving innocence and avoiding discomfort, why this pattern disconnects you from your real needs, and how to start questioning the deeper story beneath your overwhelm. Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://beatrizalbina.com/377 Order your copy of End Emotional Outsourcing here: https://beatrizalbina.com/book/ Follow me here: https://www.instagram.com/beatrizvictoriaalbinanp/?hl=en Mentioned in this episode: Join Nervous System Signals and Safety! You understand your anxiety. You can name your triggers, trace them back, explain the whole thing. And your body still does what it does - the freeze, the brace, the exhaustion that has nothing to do with how much you slept. Working at the level where the pattern actually lives - your nervous system, your physiology - is what changes it. Signals & Safety is 12 weeks of somatic education and practice built from 20+ years of clinical training. You come out knowing why your body responds the way it does, and with…","meta_description":"#377: What if saying “I’m overwhelmed” is sometimes about more than just naming your exhaustion? If you’ve been living in chronic overdrive, collapsing un…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1176,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/feminist-wellness-15519/episodes/ep-377-the-story-of-overwhelm/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/feminist-wellness-15519/ep-377-the-story-of-overwhelm.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}