Tag: mental health
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Stretching My Manager Muscles: Learning to Lead Myself First
When most people hear the word “manager,” they think of job titles, corporate offices, or leading a team. But lately, I’ve been learning something powerful: Before you can manage others, you have to learn to manage yourself. This season of life—full of transitions, healing, and self-discovery, has stretched what I call my “manager muscles.” But…
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The Soft Girl Era That Saved Me After Years of Just Surviving
How Pretty Princess Pilates, Somatic Healing, and Breathwork Helped Me “Did you lose weight?” That’s what my friends notice first. And yeah, I do feel lighter—but not so much in my jeans. For me, it’s more like… less bloated, more breathing room. I feel lighter in my belly, in my breath, in how I carry…
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What I Buried With My Grandmother
For my grandmother, whose fire lives on in me. I know she would have wanted me to speak my truth. And I’ll keep doing just that. En memoria de mi abuela—quien me enseñó a ser fuerte, valiente, atrevida y auténtica. When we buried my grandmother, I didn’t just say goodbye to her—I said goodbye to…
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Breaking the Cycle: Choosing Peace Over Survival
For a long time, I thought survival was strength. I thought being strong meant enduring, sticking it out, holding it together no matter what. That’s what the women before me did. That’s what I saw. But one day I realized: survival is not the same as peace, and I wanted peace—for me and for my…
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33, Unmet Expectations & Becoming Super Mom
This month, I turned 33.And honestly? Life looks nothing like I expected it to. I’ve been in the job market, like so many others, applying one role at a time, sending one message at a time, taking one brave conversation at a time. It’s discouraging sometimes. I’ve spent years in communications and brand marketing, telling…
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suicidal ideation: my story as a survivor
As September comes to a close so does National Suicide Prevention Month. But the work to raise awareness on this topic does not end. This is my story as a survivor.
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Incase no one warned you: healing comes with exhaustion
Rupture comes from the Old Latin word rumpere, which means to break. And broken is exactly how we feel when we rupture. – Regena Thomashauer “Tired.” For weeks, that had been my answer almost every time my therapist, Rachel, asked how I was doing, as I walked over to her couch and moved one of…
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Thirty, healing and surviving
A lot of people freak out about turning 30. Yes, turning 30 is major, but it’s not the end of the world. Trust me.
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Emotional intelligence for effective ministry and leadership
I’d heard of “church hurt,” but I had never personally experienced it until some time ago. If you’ve never heard the term “church hurt,” it’s a term that is often used to refer to pain caused by religious institutions. Whether church hurt Is intentional or not, the wound still hurts. For months, I was in…
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‘Tis the season to set boundaries
Hey friend, The holidays are here, and I hope that in the middle of the madness, you are taking care of yourself. Believe it or not, I am writing this while getting a pedicure, and I am so relaxed I’m trying not to fall asleep on this massage chair. I started putting up Christmas decorations…
Mommy Finger, Baby Finger 