There are Latina therapists out there waiting for you ❤️🩹 Welcome back, everyone! To 8 days of Latina-owned businesses! Today, we’re talking about … Mental Health wooooooooo (the crowd goes wild, 🗣️📢🔊yhhaaaaaa!) This listicle is near and dear to mi corazon (my heart). So, it is with great pleasure that I get to share it with you. […]
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If I were an apple, would you have picked me? Pick me, I’ll show you I’m good enough.Pick me, I’ll be better.Pick me, I’ll save the day. Pick me, I’ll be the best for the job. Whatever job it is. Pick me, I’ll be the BEST at whatever you need … for like four years. Then, I’ll
The professionals aren’t wrong about the calming properties of water … I love being in nature — especially near bodies of water. It grounds me just like the professionals suggest. I am by no means a strong swimmer. At best, I’d go as far as I could in a pool and practice treading water right
PROCESSING MY CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IN THE SWIMMING POOL Read More »
A Mother’s Day memory forever burned in my soul. Waking up with gratitude Mother’s Day, a very tender day for the majority of my adult life. Anxiety, nightmares, panic attacks, and depression filled my life. Accompanied by multiple problematic learned coping mechanisms, each filling up an expandable carry-on of their own. Needless to say, I
A MOTHER’S DAY I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER HAVE Read More »
Backyard Tales – Chapter 2 Processing Emotions and Doing the Work Another late night in my sanctuary, a few hours before dawn, awaiting the rain and sitting in my swing lightly bundled up. I was listening to music, but my thoughts overshadowed my peace. Trying hard not to beat myself up over a comment a
I BECAME THE PERSON I NEEDED AS A CHILD Read More »
When the day comes, will I hate myself? Will I immediately stop and think of all that I did causing me to miss out on better memories with her? As a teenager I would get so enraged with her that I envisioned myself sitting at the edge of her deathbed, whispering all the things I
WHEN THE DAY COMES Read More »
I’ve come to kill time with you again. Here I am again. A feeling all too familiar. Stuck. Body heavy. Indifferent, not sad. Mind telling me lies. Me believing them. This time, no guilt … that’s a lie, there’s guilt. But I am really enjoying these constant hits of dopamine. My week has consisted of
HELLO PROCRASTINATION, MY OLD FRIEND Read More »
This is going to be a long read. 17 ish minutes to be exact. And we’re in a society of 5 second TikTok’s, IG reels, commercials, and everything else geared to grab our society created short spanned attention. If I’m lucky, I might still capture the attention of more Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials than
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LEARNING ABOUT DRAGONS IN therapy In my therapy journey of learning how to understand Mami, why she does what she does, and where I fit in her world, I have slowly been learning to tame the inner dragon that fiercely protects little Doña. The inner dragon who spits fire, lashes her tongue, whips her heavy
NOTHING HURTS LIKE YOUR MOUTH: WEREWOLF MAMIS AND DRAGON DAUGHTERS Read More »
A Little Ditty About Meds Everyone sing with me now, to absolutely no set tune … Youuuu haaaave Klonopin, Citalopram, Ativan, Prozac, Lexapro, Wellbutrin, Hydroxyzine, aaaanndd trazodone … No, no, don’t hang up the phone … You don’t want your chance at sanity to be blown! via GIPHY Raise your hand 🙋🏻♀️ if any of
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