In this free 60-minute training, I share how historical and cultural patterns show up in your nervous system. You’ll learn why:
❤︎ Understanding Marianismo: The cultural expectations that shape how women from Spanish-colonized cultures move through the world
❤︎ The Science of Inheritance: How epigenetics influences our nervous system responses
❤︎ Your Body's Wisdom: The connection between ancestral protection and present-day behaviors
❤︎ Practical Tools: Somatic approaches for working with inherited patterns
Marianismo is a complex legacy born from colonialism – a set of rules that taught our grandmothers and mothers to survive through sacrifice. Their bodies learned these lessons so well that the pattern lives in our cells today.
This inheritance shows up in ways we’ve never connected: The constant drive to care for others before ourselves. The guilt that comes with rest. The feeling that our bodies aren’t quite our own.
Epigenetics shows us how trauma and survival strategies pass through generations at a cellular level. Understanding this helps explain why certain family patterns feel impossible to break, and why healing needs to happen at the level of body, not just mind.
Cynthia on Epigenetics and Why it matters in understanding our own wounds and healing:
“We have learned that Epigentics is how you show up.
Our Epigentics is a marker in our genetic code that heightens some subconscious driven behaviors over others.
It activates our autonomic nervous system based on the genes expressed most in your ancestral DNA.
The hopeful thing about EPIGENETICS is that it goes both ways! We can start NOW and flip other switches within us for peace.
Flip your switches from anxious, angry, rageful, scared, passive, flighty, to JOYFUL, ABUNDANT, WELL RESTED, SOFT, COMFORTING, STURDY.
Consider,
If your genes are conditioned to stand out because they are used so much, start conditioning, training, your JOYFUL genes!!
This work is changing your evolutionary genes!! You are literally being a change-maker when you embody RADICAL JOY!! ” –Cynthia Alonzo, LCSW
Cynthia Alonzo, LCSW, transforms how we understand cultural inheritance and healing. As a first-generation daughter of immigrants from Yucatan, Mexico, she spent years exploring why productivity felt safer than stillness, and why helping others came easily while receiving help felt impossible.
Her deepening came at the intersection of neuroscience and ancestral wisdom. Through her practice, Rooted in Reflection, she guides others in understanding their inherited patterns, blending modern psychology with cultural healing practices.
With 15 years of experience across Tongva Land in the field throughout the freeways of Los Angele, in the web of healthcare systems, Cynthia brings both clinical expertise and lived understanding to her work. She’s the creator of the “Confetti All Around” podcast, author of multiple books including “My Marianismo: Nurturing Myself from Root to Bloom,” and was nominated as “Visionary Therapist” by Latinx Therapy in 2023.
Her framework emerges from both her professional training and personal journey, offering a path for transforming generational patterns into sources of strength. Through therapy, courses, and trainings, she helps others decode the stories their bodies carry and access wisdom that’s older than words.
Map how colonization shaped your inheritance and choose what to carry forward.
For daughters breaking cycles.
