Lessons from a Quitter How to stop Emotional Outsourcing with Beatriz Albina
Aug 26, 2025
Beatriz Albina, NP, MPH, SEP, is a somatic life coach and host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast. In this engaging conversation, she explores the detrimental effects of emotional outsourcing, revealing how it leads to codependency and perfectionism. Béa shares powerful strategies for self-regulation and reconnecting with the body to reclaim joy. The discussion delves into overcoming people-pleasing tendencies, the science behind emotional regulation, and the importance of authenticity. Béa also teases her upcoming book, offering listeners a glimpse into transformative techniques for emotional well-being.
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Late-Night Writing Ritual
- Beatriz wrote most of her book between 10 PM and 3 AM while listening to one Pearl Jam song on repeat.
- She jokes that her musical taste hasn't changed since high school.
Emotional Outsourcing Defined
- Emotional outsourcing means sourcing safety, belonging, and worth from outside yourself rather than within.
- Beatriz reframes codependency and people-pleasing as survival skills learned from family and culture, not defects.
Celebrate Survival Strategies
- Labeling people as 'defective' (e.g., "I'm a codependent") traps them in identity and shame.
- Beatriz urges celebrating these strategies as adaptive survival skills formed under systems like patriarchy and capitalism.
