Centering our Home is Centering our Humanity- featuring Nikolai Pizarro of Raising Readers
I want to say now that what I love about my decision to be vulnerable and curious, is it has led me to wonderful conversations and collective love. Someone who comes to mind is Nikolai Pizarro the mastermind behind more than an IG handle, Raising Readers is a movement. Nikolai captures my inner child’s heart […]
Bibliotherapy is Inner Child Healing with Literapy_NYC
Should I just start this blog post off with a mini title called, “I’m not crying, YOU’RE Crying?!” because that is how my conversations with Emely Rumble feel. Whether I am catching her up on an IG voice notes while frying a tortilla, or reading her posts in her Fable book club, being in Emely’s […]
I am a #LegacyResource
Listen to Confetti All Around Season 2 Episode 11 “Legacy Burdens and Legacy Resources” In this solo episode Cynthia highlights her latest workbook The ABC’s to Protecting Your Inner Child’s Peace using the current active aggression in Gaza and the trauma endured as the example of legacy burdens and legacy resources throughout lineages. What ARE […]
Marianismo is our Glamour Magic and ours to unburden from
This title is enticing on purpose, because Latinidad is often an invisible burden we are faced to carry alone, and no complaining. When thinking of how to move beyond these intergenerational feelings of guilt and longing, I love to bring Marianismo as a big legacy burden many Latinos carry and don’t quite label or pathologize […]
Marianismo and Epigenetics, a love letter to those who came before me
It was May of 2020, 10 years after I received my B.A. in Chicano/Latino Studies from Cal State Long Beach. I was pacing the halls of my house after reading a passage about “epigenetics” in the book “It Didn’t Start with You” by Mark Wolynn. I couldn’t stop thinking beyond it. In the book Mark […]
