Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, both integrative medicine physicians, are building the Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi, a weekly audio prescription for women in perimenopause and menopause. It’s physician-led, science-backed, built around your biology and your mind-body constitution, your dosha.

Weekly Health Rx just wrapped a five-week series on metabolic health, discussing how hormone shifts in midlife affect your metabolism: your energy, your weight, your inflammation.

Here's a small piece from week one of the metabolic health series. Head to the Weekly Health Rx and subscribe for more.

Connect with Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh:

• Get Dr. Kumar-Singh’s Weekly Newsletter: https://avantikumarsingh.substack.com
• Follow Dr. Kumar-Singh on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
• Order Dr. Kumar-Singh’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
• Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

More Resources:

• Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you.
• Visit and Subscribe to the Weekly Health Rx
• Explore more at myarvasi.com

Explore More of The Healing Catalyst Podcast:

• Leave a voice message for Dr. Kumar-Singh
• Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
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• Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

Originally published 9/9/25.

In this episode of The Healing Catalyst, Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh sits down with world-renowned sleep expert Dr. Michael Breus—better known as The Sleep Doctor—for a deep dive into the science of sleep. Together, they unpack the power of what Dr. Breus calls sleep chronotypes: your genetic “sleep personality” that reveals whether you thrive as an early-rising lion, a steady bear, a creative night-owl wolf, or a restless dolphin. These chronotypes, hardwired by your genes and hormones, offer a blueprint for aligning your lifestyle with your natural rhythm—transforming everything from your energy and productivity to your mental health. Much like Ayurveda’s doshas, they mirror the unique mind-body patterns that shape how we move through the world and what we need to stay in balance.

This conversation goes beyond theory, sharing practical, real-life strategies for better sleep—from setting consistent wake times and managing caffeine and alcohol, to leveraging the power of daily movement. Along the way, Dr. Breus and Dr. Kumar-Singh explore the surprising connections between sleep, anxiety, and hormonal shifts—and why understanding your unique chronotype may be the ultimate key to unlocking deeper rest and a more vibrant life.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• (01:37) Introduction to Sleep Hygiene
• (07:51)What is a Chronotype
• (16:11) How Your Hormones Impact Sleep Quality
• (16:56) Understanding Your Hormones to Have Optimal Sex
• (18:53) How to Create a Routine That Cues Your Body to Go to Sleep
• (26:11) How Ayurveda Aligns so Closely with the Chronotype Methodology
• (35:46) Dr. Breus’ Five Step Plan to Improve Sleep Quality
• (37:17) How Alcohol Affects Sleep and Best Practices For Sleep When You Drink
• (40:00) How Consistent Exercise Improves Sleep
• (40:51) Morning Routine Recommendation: The Three 15’s
• (43:19) Sex and Sleep
• (46:20) How to Best Use Sleep Trackers
• (52:58) Dr. Breus’ One Tip: Wake Up At The Same Time Seven Days A Week

About Dr. Micheal Breus:

Michael J. Breus, Ph.D., is a double board certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist. He’s the founder of sleepdoctor.com and the author of four books. His most recent book Energize! was named one of the top books of 2021 by The Today Show. He is an expert resource for many major publications, doing more than 400 interviews per year. He’s appeared on Oprah, The Doctors, and in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and more. Dr. Breus has been in private practice for 23 years and was named the Top Sleep Doctor of Los Angeles by Reader’s Digest.

Connect with Dr. Michael Breus:

• Instagram: @thesleepdoctor
• Website: https://sleepdoctor.com/
• YouTube: @TheSleepDoctor
• Book: Sleep Drink Breathe
• Chronotypes quiz: https://chronoquiz.com/

Connect with Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh:

• Get Dr. Kumar-Singh’s Weekly Newsletter: https://avantikumarsingh.substack.com
• Follow Dr. Kumar-Singh on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
• Order Dr. Kumar-Singh’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
• Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

More Resources:

• Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you.
• Visit and Subscribe to the Weekly Health Rx.
• Explore more at myarvasi.com

Explore More of The Healing Catalyst Podcast:

• Leave a voice message for Dr. Kumar-Singh
• Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
• Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
• Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

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Most of us think grief only happens when someone dies. But what about the loss of a body that doesn’t feel like yours anymore? A relationship that quietly became something different? A future you had counted on that is not coming? The uncertainty of the world right now, the instability, the feeling that something has shifted and nobody asked if you were okay with that? That’s grief too and most of us have never let ourselves call it that.

Most of us are walking around carrying grief we have never named. And we can’t move through something we can’t see.

In this episode, Dr. Avanti sits down with David Kessler, one of the world's foremost experts on grief and loss. He spent years working alongside Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and has since helped millions of people understand what grief really is. His definition is simple: grief is a change we did not want. And when you look at it that way, so many things you have been quietly carrying finally have a name.

Together they explore why grief lives in the body, not just the mind. Why what so many of us are feeling about the world right now is real grief and deserves to be treated as such. What it actually means when people say grief is love with nowhere to go. And how meaning begins to emerge inside grief, not after it.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• (07:56)What is grief and why is it far more common than you think
• (13:18) What "grief is love with nowhere to go" means in real life
• (15:39) How grief shows up in the body and where you might be holding it
• (21:11) Why the heaviness you feel about the world right now is grief
• (41:03) What being stuck is actually telling you
• (44:45) How to find meaning inside grief, not just after it
• (47:40) One practice to start moving through what you are carrying today

If you have been carrying something heavy and never had the words for it, this episode will change that.

About David Kessler:

David Kessler is one of the world's foremost experts on grief and loss. He spent years working alongside Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and is the author of seven books, including his latest bestseller Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief and its companion workbook. His first book, The Needs of the Dying, received praise from Mother Teresa. He runs Tender Hearts, an online grief support community with more than twenty-five grief groups, leads one of the most respected Grief Educator Certification programs in the world, and is the founder of grief.com.

Connect with David Kessler:

• Website: grief.com
• Instagram: @IAmDavidKessler
• Facebook: @IAmDavidKessler
• Tender Hearts: davidkesslertraining.com/tenderhearts
• Traumatic Loss and Grief course: davidkesslertraining.com/traumatic-loss-grief

Connect with Dr. Avanti:

• Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
• Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
• Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube
• Follow Dr. Avanti on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
• Get Dr. Avanti’s Weekly Letter: avantikumarsingh.com/join-my-newsletter
• Leave a voice message for Dr. Avanti

Resources:

• Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you. myarvasi.com
• Order Dr. Avanti’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
• Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

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You're tired. Not sleepy tired, bone tired. The kind where you woke up feeling like you didn't sleep at all. You're foggy by lunch. You're craving sugar by 3pm. Your body is changing in ways that don't make sense. And maybe your doctor ran your labs and said everything looks "normal", but nothing about how you feel is normal.

And here's the part that really doesn't get talked about: some of you are trying to get pregnant in your late 30s or early 40s while also starting to feel perimenopausal symptoms. Hot flashes, irregular periods, anxiety, weight gain around the middle. Two things happening at the same time and everyone treats them as separate problems.

They're not. And the root cause connecting both might surprise you because it's not your estrogen. It's not your progesterone. It's your metabolic health.

In this episode I sit down with Rachel Swanson, a Registered Dietitian, Nutrition Director at LifeSpan Medicine, and author of the new book Trying, to talk about why metabolic health is the upstream driver of everything from egg quality to hot flashes to cardiovascular risk. And we get really practical about what to do about it.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• (05:56) Why metabolic health is a root cause that affects fertility, perimenopause/menopause
• (07:59) How poor metabolic health shows up in your daily life
• (11:25) Three labs every woman should know
• (17:20) What your plate should look like at every meal
• (21:13) The gut-hormone connection most people miss
• (25:45) Environmental toxins: where to start, what to skip
• (26:00) Why high toxin exposure = menopause four years earlier

By the end of this episode, you'll understand the threads that connect metabolism with fertility, perimenopause, and menopause, and learn simple lifestyle shifts that can improve your metabolic health.

About Rachel Swanson:

Rachel Swanson, MS, RD, LDN, is a Registered Dietitian and one of America's most sought-after nutritionists. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition from NYU, completed clinical rotations at Mount Sinai Hospital, and is the Nutrition Director at LifeSpan Medicine and founder of Diet Doctors, LLC. She works with professional athletes, celebrities, C-suite executives, and physicians, specializing in metabolic health, fertility optimization, and personalized preventative care. Her new book, Trying: A Nutritionist's Guide to Fertility, Metabolic Health, and Whole-Body Healing, brings clinical-grade strategies previously available only through elite concierge practices to every woman navigating her reproductive health.

Connect with Rachel Swanson:

• Website: rachelswanson.com
• Book: Trying!: A Science-Backed Plan to Optimize Your Fertility
• Instagram: @rachelsrx

Connect with Dr. Avanti:

• Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
• Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
• Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube
• Follow Dr. Avanti on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
• Get Dr. Avanti’s Weekly Letter: avantikumarsingh.com/join-my-newsletter
• Leave a voice message for Dr. Avanti

Resources:

• Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you. myarvasi.com
• Order Dr. Avanti’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
• Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

Mentioned in this episode:

Come join us at the Weekly Health Rx at weeklyhealthrx.substack.com

You open your phone to check one thing. Thirty minutes later, you've read about six different crises, your chest is tight, your jaw is clenched, and you can't remember what you originally opened the phone to do. You know the scrolling is making you feel worse. And you do it anyway.

Here's what no one is talking about: that's not a willpower problem. It's a nervous system problem. The same pattern that kept you safe as a child—the scanning, the absorbing, the holding—is now being hijacked by your phone. And it's compounding the inflammation that's already living in your tissues.

In this solo episode, Dr. Avanti goes deeper than ever before, connecting the dots between emotional outsourcing, childhood patterns, media consumption, and the inflammation showing up in your body right now. Building on her recent conversation with Béa Albina, she shares her own story as a first-generation daughter and breast cancer survivor, and reveals why your inflammation has two sources, not one.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• (00:00) Why your inflammation has two sources—and you've probably only been addressing one
• (07:16) The science of neuroception: how your body detects threat before your mind knows
• (10:07) Why scrolling is a nervous system problem, not a willpower problem
• (11:49) How doomscrolling symptoms mirror perimenopause symptoms
• (16:26) Why women are 2-3x more likely to develop autoimmune conditions
• (21:15) The difference between being informed and being consumed
• (21:45) Why healing yourself is one of the most generous things you can do
• (23:18) Five specific protocols to start today

This episode will change how you think about your health, your scrolling habits, and your role in the collective healing we all need.

Connect with Dr. Avanti:

• Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
• Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
• Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube
• Follow Dr. Avanti on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
• Get Dr. Avanti’s Weekly Letter: avantikumarsingh.com/join-my-newsletter
• Leave a voice message for Dr. Avanti

Resources:

• Listen to Ep. 170: Emotional Outsourcing with Béa Albina
• Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you. myarvasi.com
• Order Dr. Avanti’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
• Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

Mentioned in this episode:

Come join us at the Weekly Health Rx at weeklyhealthrx.substack.com

You're not fighting. There's no big blowout. You just… stopped reaching for each other. The conversations are about logistics. The evenings are parallel screens. And lately you're more irritable, more reactive and snapping over nothing and then lying awake wondering what's wrong with you.

Here's what nobody tells you: when you avoid conflict instead of repairing, it doesn't just hurt your relationship. It hurts your health because your nervous system stays stuck in threat because it never got the signal that it's safe again.

In this episode, Dr. Avanti sits down with Baya Voce, one of the leading experts on relationship repair. Baya holds an MSW from Columbia University, is mentored by Esther Perel, and is a Co-Investigator on groundbreaking research with MAPS and Columbia University studying MDMA-assisted couples therapy. Her TEDx talk on loneliness has over 5 million views, and her core belief is that repair, done well, is the antidote to loneliness and disconnection.

Together they explore why repair is a nervous system response, not the communication skill we've been told it is. They also discuss why the power struggle phase of relationships isn't a sign that something is wrong, how loneliness shows up inside partnerships even when you're not alone, and one simple practice you can start tonight that can shift any relationship in your life.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

1. (06:33) Why avoiding conflict destroys relationships
2. (17:25) Why repair is a nervous system response, not a communication skill
3. (23:10) Why a real boundary requires nothing of the other person
4. (​​35:46) How relational loneliness shows up even when you're not alone
5. (42:06) How MDMA-assisted couples therapy works
6. (53:44) One simple relationship practice you can use today: “complaint to request”

If you've been wondering whether your relationship is broken, it's probably not. You just never learned how to come back to each other.

About Baya Voce:

Baya Voce is a relationship repair expert helping couples come back together after conflict. She holds an MSW from Columbia University, with advanced training in Relational Life Therapy under Terry Real, and is in ongoing supervision with Esther Perel. She collaborates with Rick Doblin, MAPS, and Columbia University on pioneering research into MDMA-assisted couples therapy. Her TEDx talk "The Simple Cure for Loneliness" has over 5 million views. Her core belief is that repair, done well, is the antidote to loneliness and disconnection.

Connect with Baya Voce:

1. Website: bayavoce.com
2. Instagram: @bayavoce
3. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bayavoce
4. The Repair Lab: repair.bayavoce.com/repair-lab-ai-a

Connect with Dr. Avanti:

1. Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
2. Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
3. Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube
4. Follow Dr. Avanti on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
5. Get Dr. Avanti’s Weekly Letter: avantikumarsingh.com/join-my-newsletter
6. Leave a voice message for Dr. Avanti

Resources:

1. Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you. myarvasi.com
2. Order Dr. Avanti’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
3. Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

Mentioned in this episode:

Come join us at the Weekly Health Rx at weeklyhealthrx.substack.com

"It works in the moment but twenty minutes later the anxiety is right back." "Breathing exercises aren't going to fix what's wrong with the world." "I actually felt something — genuine sadness — and then the heaviness came back."

These are the real questions you sent us this month. And they deserve real answers — not generic FAQ responses, but answers from two physicians who understand your constitution, your biology, and what perimenopause is actually doing to your anxiety.

This week, Dr. Kumar-Singh and Dr. Sethi answer the three biggest questions from the mood series on anxiety — starting with the dosha who asked each one, then breaking down how the same struggle shows up completely differently across all five constitutions.

In this episode:

• Why "the anxiety comes right back" doesn't mean you're doing it wrong — and the specific change that stretches your window of calm from minutes to hours
• The honest answer to "this feels like a band-aid on a bullet wound" — why the doctors agree that breathing won't fix the world, and what it actually fixes that matters more than you think
• What it means when you feel something for the first time in months and then the heaviness returns — and why that moment is actually the most important sign the work is landing
• Why every dosha's anxiety hits the same wall for completely different reasons — and what to do about it for YOUR constitution
• What to keep from this series, what to let go of, and why listening to your episodes again will hit differently the second time

Plus two announcements:

• Live sessions with Dr. Kumar-Singh and Dr. Sethi over the next two weeks — real-time support for your anxiety and nervous system, real-time answers, together
• The FOCUS series is coming — concentration, memory, cognitive clarity — and why you can't fix attention without first addressing the anxiety underneath it

This is the final week of our four-week MOOD series on anxiety. Starting this week, all doshas are in one conversation — same science, same personalized prescriptions, together.

Take the free Dosha Data Assessment at myarvasi.com and subscribe at @weeklyhealthrx.

Finally — medicine that fits you.

Follow Arvasi:

• Substack: @weeklyhealthrx
• Instagram: @myarvasi
• Website: myarvasi.com

Connect with your hosts:

• Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh | Instagram
• Dr. Tanmeet Sethi | Instagram

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You open your phone to check one thing. Thirty minutes later, you've read about six different crises, your chest is tight, and you can't remember what you originally opened the phone to do.

You're not weak. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it's designed to do—scanning for threats that never stop coming. And in perimenopause, the scrolling isn't soothing your anxiety. It's compounding it.

In this week's Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi, Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi reveal why doomscrolling is a nervous system problem, not a willpower problem, and why the symptoms of perimenopause may be amplified by what you're feeding your body through a screen.

Listen now to learn:

• Why every scroll re-triggers your stress cascade before the last one has cleared
• The Ayurvedic concept that reframes everything you take in through your senses as "food" and what happens when that food is toxic
• The difference between being informed and being consumed and why staying “resourced” with a regulated nervous system is so important
• Why your dosha determines your specific media vulnerability

This is Week 3 of our four-week MOOD series.

Your dosha-specific episode, with YOUR media prescription and the specific protocol for how your constitution should consume information, is for paid subscribers. Take the free Dosha Data Assessment at myarvasi.com and subscribe at @weeklyhealthrx.

Finally—medicine that fits you.

Take the Dosha Data Assessment: myarvasi.com

Follow Arvasi:

• Substack: @weeklyhealthrx
• Instagram: @myarvasi
• Website: myarvasi.com

Connect with your hosts:

• Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh | Instagram
• Dr. Tanmeet Sethi | Instagram

The gym membership you signed up for on January 2nd? You haven't been in weeks. The meal prep containers are still sitting in the cabinet, clean and unused. The habit tracker, the gratitude journal, the app that was going to change everything—blank. For weeks.

And now you're not just disappointed. You're starting to wonder if something is wrong with you. Because everyone else seems to be able to do this. And you can't figure out why you can't.

Nothing is wrong with you. You were set up to fail—and the science proves it.

In this solo "Spark This" episode, Dr. Avanti gets personal about her own 8-week crash—one year after finishing breast cancer treatment—when she demanded her body bounce back and it said no. She breaks down the science of why resolutions collapse by late February (hint: only 8% of people ever achieve them), why your willpower isn't broken—it's depleted, and why trying to overhaul your life in the dead of winter is like trying to grow a garden in February and blaming yourself when nothing blooms.

Drawing on Ayurveda, modern psychology, and circadian biology, she explains why the way you crashed is actually predictable based on your dosha—your unique mind-body constitution—and shares one specific thing each dosha type can do right now to stop the cycle and start working with their nature instead of against it.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• (05:56) Why 92% of people are exactly where you are right now
• (08:21) Dr. Avanti's personal story of crashing after breast cancer treatment
• (13:20) The science of ego depletion and why willpower runs out after eight weeks
• (14:06) How your rest deficit is sabotaging your ability to change
• (15:23) Why winter is the worst time to push for transformation
• (17:21) The Ayurvedic perspective on late winter and working with the season
• (19:19) How each dosha crashes differently—and one thing your type needs right now

If this episode made you exhale for the first time in weeks—you're not behind. You're not broken. You were just following the wrong prescription for your body. And now you have a better way forward.

Connect with Dr. Avanti:

• Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
• Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
• Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube
• Follow Dr. Avanti on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
• Get Dr. Avanti’s Weekly Letter: avantikumarsingh.com/join-my-newsletter
• Leave a voice message for Dr. Avanti

Resources:

• Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you. myarvasi.com
• Order Dr. Avanti’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
• Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

Mentioned in this episode:

Come join us at the Weekly Health Rx at weeklyhealthrx.substack.com

You've tried the affirmations. The gratitude journal. The boundary-setting advice you read about online. Maybe you even set the boundary—and then felt so guilty you took it back five minutes later.

You know what you "should" do. You've read the books. You've done the therapy. So why does nothing stick? Why do you still say yes when you mean no? Why do you still feel responsible for everyone else's emotions? Why are you exhausted, resentful, and wondering if this is just how life is now?

Here's the truth no one talks about: You can't think your way out of a body that doesn't feel safe. Mindset work, boundaries, self-care—none of it works until your nervous system is on board. And for women who grew up learning to read the room, anticipate everyone's needs, and keep the peace at any cost, the nervous system has been running a survival program for decades.

In this episode, Dr. Avanti sits down with Béa Albina, NP, MPH, SEP—a UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, and author of the bestselling End Emotional Outsourcing: A Guide to Overcoming Codependent, Perfectionist and People Pleasing Habits. Béa's work is grounded in somatics and polyvagal theory—and she breaks down exactly why so many high-functioning women feel stuck, what's actually happening in the body, and the surprisingly simple first step to changing it.

Together, they explore what emotional outsourcing really is—the pattern underneath codependency, perfectionism, and people-pleasing—and why these aren't character flaws but brilliant childhood survival strategies that no longer serve you. They dig into how these patterns get wired into the nervous system, the real health consequences of living in chronic hypervigilance, and how to start unwinding it all—one small, body-based practice at a time.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• (08:38) What emotional outsourcing is and how it drives codependency, perfectionism, and people-pleasing
• (18:01) Why you can't decide what to have for dinner after a day of managing everyone else
• (26:28) How these patterns get wired into the nervous system in childhood
• (31:17) The real health consequences of chronic hypervigilance
• (34:15) Why affirmations and boundaries don't work until your nervous system feels safe
• (41:58) A simple daily practice that starts to rewire the pattern
• (52:32) How to find your "why" so the changes actually stick

If this episode felt like someone was reading your diary—you're not broken. You developed a brilliant survival strategy that got you this far. And now you finally have a roadmap to choose something different.

About Béa Albina:

Beatriz (Béa) Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP is a UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, author of the bestselling End Emotional Outsourcing: A Guide to Overcoming Codependent, Perfectionist and People Pleasing Habits (Hachette Balance, 2025), and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping humans socialized as women to reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and rewire their minds—so they can break free from codependency, perfectionism, and people pleasing and reclaim their joy.

She is the host of the Feminist Wellness podcast and holds a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health and a BA in Latin American Studies from Oberlin College. Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Béa grew up in Rhode Island and has been working in health and wellness for over 20 years.

Connect with Béa Albina:

• Website: https://beatrizalbina.com/
• Podcast: Feminist Wellness
• Instagram: @victoriaalbinawellness
• Book: End Emotional Outsourcing: A Guide to Overcoming Codependent, Perfectionist and People Pleasing Habits
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beatrizvictoriaalbinanp
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beatrizvictoriaalbina/

Connect with Dr. Avanti:

• Subscribe, Rate & Review The Healing Catalyst podcast
• Listen to more episodes on your favorite platform
• Watch clips and past episodes on YouTube
• Follow Dr. Avanti on Instagram at @avantikumarsingh
• Get Dr. Avanti’s Weekly Letter: avantikumarsingh.com/join-my-newsletter
• Leave a voice message for Dr. Avanti

Resources:

• Take the free Dosha Data Assessment to get your personalized Weekly Health Rx by Arvasi. Rooted in tradition. Backed by science. Personalized for you. myarvasi.com
• New Year’s Reframe Podcast Episode
• Order Dr. Avanti’s books: The Longevity Formula, The Health Catalyst
• Explore more at avantikumarsingh.com

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Podcast episode production by Dante32.

Mentioned in this episode:

Come join us at the Weekly Health Rx at weeklyhealthrx.substack.com