120. Break Free from Perfectionism, People-Pleasing, and Emotional Outsourcing with Béa Victoria Albina
Release Date: 08/18/2025
141. Menopause Symptoms No One Warns You About: Hormones, ADHD, Weight Gain, Food Sensitivities, and HRT with Jen Brown
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: This episode is one of those conversations that feels easy, natural, and surprisingly comforting. I’m joined by Jen, the creator behind the popular TikTok and Instagram account @jenopause_midlife, and what happens is an honest, fun, and deeply relatable conversation about midlife, hormones, and everything women were never really taught about this stage of life. We talk about what it’s like to start...
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140. A Simple Meal Prep System That Actually Works in Midlife and Stops the Takeout and Snacking
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: Meal Prep Made Simple In Episode 140 of the Emotional Eats podcast, Kim breaks down the simple system she uses to...
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139. Alcohol and Midlife Women: To Drink or Not to Drink
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: To Drink or Not to Drink in Midlife In today’s episode, we’re talking about alcohol in midlife through a...
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138. Why Anxiety Increases During Menopause and What To Do About It
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: If you are a woman in perimenopause or post-menopause and you’ve noticed more anxiety, restlessness, looping...
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137. The Episodes That Sparked the Biggest Conversations with Women Over 40 in 2025 Around Gut Health, Menopause, Menopause Weight Loss, Vaginal Health, Hormones and Emotional Eating.
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: This special Best of 2025 episode brings together the most listened to, most shared, and most talked about...
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136. How to Set Real Boundaries with Dysfunctional Parents Without Turning to Food
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: This episode is a reminder that you are not “too sensitive” for needing boundaries and that healing does...
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135. Why Midlife Women Can’t Lose the Last Five Pounds with Kim Hynes
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: If you’ve ever felt frustrated, stuck, or conflicted about that last bit of weight, this episode offers...
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134. Why starting in January Backfires for Your Midlife Midsection and Metabolism
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: If you are a woman in your 40s, 50s, or 60s who keeps promising yourself you will “start fresh” on Monday,...
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133. Your Over 40 Guide to Saying No to Nonsense
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: This fun, lighthearted episode has a big dose of truth underneath it. Kim is 59 and officially in her “not...
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132. Post-Menopause Belly Fat? These 5 Fixes Feel Like Cheating Part 2
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: Feeling better in post-menopause isn’t just about food and workouts. In this second half of the series, we...
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What if the reason you feel stuck isn’t because you’re “broken,” but because you’ve been trained to put everyone else first? In this episode, I’m joined by Beatriz (Béa) Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP, to explore her powerful concept of emotional outsourcing—the habit of sourcing our safety, belonging, and worth from others instead of ourselves.
Béa shares how perfectionism, people-pleasing, and codependency are often survival strategies written into our nervous systems by childhood experiences, cultural conditioning, and even systemic forces. She explains the vital role of somatic awareness, why “kitten steps” create safer change than big leaps, and how to begin listening to your body’s needs in the smallest moments—like pausing before your morning coffee.
We also discuss:
- How your nervous system responds to stress, and the three key branches that shape your reactions
- The truth about being “too sensitive” and why big emotions aren’t a flaw
- Practical grounding and orienting tools to stop reactive patterns before they happen
- Why midlife women struggle with authenticity and self-acceptance, and how to reclaim joy at any age
- The connection between feeling unworthy and using food to cope
This conversation is both compassionate and fiercely empowering, offering real-world practices to help you step back into your own worth, safety, and belonging—without guilt or apology.
About Béa:
Beatriz (Béa) Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP, is a UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Master Certified Somatic Life Coach. She helps women break free from codependency, perfectionism, and people-pleasing by reconnecting with their bodies, regulating their nervous systems, and rewiring their minds. Béa is the host of the Feminist Wellness podcast and author of the upcoming End Emotional Outsourcing (Sept 30, Hachette Balance). With over 20 years in health and wellness, she holds a Master’s in Public Health from Boston University and a BA from Oberlin College. Born in Argentina and raised in Rhode Island, she now lives with her wife, Billey, and their beloved black cat, Wade.
Connect with Béa:
Grab your free downloads here: https://beatrizalbina.com/free-meditations/
Website: https://beatrizalbina.com/
Book Website: https://beatrizalbina.com/book/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beatrizvictoriaalbinanp/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feminist-wellness/id1454980022
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