Breaking Cycles & Healing
The one doing the hard, beautiful work of healing what was never talked about.
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Familismo: When Family Love Outweighs Stigma
Reading Time: 6 minutesBreaking the Stigma: How Familismo Can Be a Source of Healing, Not Silence In the Latinx community, familismo — our deep loyalty, love, and interconnectedness with family — is often painted as both our greatest strength and…
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Breaking the Silence: Growing Up as the Oveja Negra in a Latino Household
Reading Time: 4 minutesBreaking the Silence: Growing Up as the Oveja Negra in a Latino Household In so many Latino families, silence is tradition passed down like assembly lines for tamales on Christmas Eve and the infamaous 30 minute long…
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Healing Loudly in a Culture That Told Me to Stay Silent
Reading Time: 4 minutesI grew up in a culture where mental health wasn’t just misunderstood—it was silenced. If you struggled, you stayed quiet. If you cried, you wiped your tears and keep moving. And if you broke down? You did…
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Unlearning Toxic Love: A First-Gen Latina’s Inner Child Healing Journey
Reading Time: 7 minutesGrowing up, I thought love meant staying quiet, being needed, and never making anyone uncomfortable. But I’m unlearning the kind of love that hurt—and learning how to model a softer kind, for my inner niña and the two little hearts who made me a mom.
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Healing Isn’t Linear: A Love Letter to My Inner Niña
Reading Time: 4 minutesHealing Isn’t Linear: A Love Letter to My Inner Niña For the ones who learned to stay quiet, even when their hearts were screaming Growing up, I thought healing would look like forgetting. Like eventually, if enough…
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Mental Health in the Latinx Community: It’s Not Shameful, It’s Human
Reading Time: 3 minutesDestigmatizing Mental Health in the Latinx Community For too long, conversations about mental health have been silenced in Latinx communities. If you cried “too much,” eras dramatica. If you got quiet, they asked annoyed qué te pasa…
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