This is a vulnerable solo episode with Cynthia, who while working as a medical social worker by day, and experiencing fertility issues, miscarriages with shame, and a post partum journey through her depression, anxiety and the rituals she did to move into her joy and ancestral wisdom. After the dark season Cynthia found books like “The Pain We Carry” by Natalie Gutierrez, LMFT and could start to make words for the shame she still feels in her body for the numbness and fear she came into motherhood with.Cynthia talks about Marianismo and how her Epigenetics of abandonment has been a lighthouse sign for her intergenerational healing from her abuelas to her babies. This is a very intimate episode from the narrative of a 1st generation Chicana and daughter of immigrants. It was through this understanding of her own postpartum connection to Marianismo is what motivated her to create mental health trainings to better understand Latina mothers and their postpartum experience or motherhood expectations due to Marianismo.
Find more of Cynthia’s trainings and speaking engagements at rootedinreflection.org
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Confetti All Around on IG. Intro song by DJ PeopleMover
