Category: Posts
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Healing Isn’t a Straight Line
Healing is not a straight line; it’s an uneven path through peaks and valleys, highs and lows, light and darkness. It’s a journey that demands courage, resilience, and a fierce determination to reclaim what was lost. When trauma shatters our world, it’s not just our bodies that need healing; it’s…
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2023 ends…God, I made it.
“Adversity does not build character, it reveals it.” James Lane Allen God, I made it through. Thank you for walking beside me every step of the way, for your compassion and sending your angels to fight alongside me and for me. For fighting those battles I didn’t even know about,…
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Finding Calm in Life’s Storms
Read original Spanish version here: Encontrando Calma en las Tormentas de la Vida One day, a friend told me: “Find that center within you (placing her hand on her chest and closing her eyes) where you can be fully calm. That even if a storm is raging around you, it…
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A Crumbling Façade
By Grecia Figueroa Click below to listen -Podcast style -English: En Español – Para leer, entra aquí: “Fachadas Que Se Derrumban” “If you stand for nothing, Burr, what will you fall for?” -Hamilton- The Musical- Lin-Manuel Miranda It’s frustrating. How do we expect to make progress and find common ground…
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International Women’s Day- March 8, 2023 Edit
Click below to listen -Podcast style- “I come as one, but I stand as 10,000” Maya Angelou. This is a phrase I like to repeat to myself whenever I’m about to face a challenging situation and when strength is my only source of courage to stand up on my own…
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Trials and Tribulations
“Behind every strong woman is a story that gave her no choice” Nakeia Homer Listen below- Podcast style- In the trials and tribulations of life, there are cards you will be dealt with that simply…you never saw coming. They are events and circumstances that give you no choice but to…
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Colorism in Latinx Families- My Experience
col·or·ism: prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a darker skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group. I’ve been aware of my skin color since I was four years old. It happened at my grandma’s house when my aunt looked at my arm and said with…
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Taking Back Control in Times of COVID
Click below to listen to the article in English or Spanish (Podcast style) “What will this disorder re-order for you?” I think there are two kinds of people in this COVID-19 world: The ones who kept it together the first couple of months and are now feeling kind of lost,…
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Adiós 2019, Bienvenido 2020!
SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH VERSION Se va el 2019, y con este, también una década más. Antes que se termine el año me gustaría que pienses, no en el 2019, pero en el 2029. Quiero que te proyectes, y te imagines a ti mismo cerrando ese ciclo, y empezando una…
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The Cuban Diaries
The Cuban Diaries- BLOGS: WAITING – 1/6 What happens if the embargo ends?”- I asked a friend who lives in Cuba. “We will finally know what we are capable of.” She replied. — In Cuba, I sensed a common theme of waiting, whether you casually talked about the embargo,…
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Transformation
You can’t let a hard lesson harden your soul. As I finished another trip around the sun, I kept thinking of what this past year was for me, and one word kept coming up in my mind: Transformation. This past year was one that “transformed” me in many ways. Who…
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Love and Loss
During a trip to Lima, Peru. January, 2015 Today, I talked to a 72-year-old man who lost his wife to cancer 10 years ago. This couple lived close to my family’s house, and I had been to their home many times for lunch while growing up. I remembered her the…
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Let Him Fill in The Blanks
A very wise person once said: “Don’t believe everything you hear, and only half of what you see” For all my friends out there currently dating there is one thing I beg you to do: Let him fill in the blanks with actions. Let me explain what this means. A…
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Understand Your Reality, But Do Not Let It Restrain You
“Understand your reality, but do not let it restrain you”- G.F. Click here to read Spanish version One of the most important things in life is simply that, to understand your reality, but not let it restrain you. This entry goes specifically for those people who have, or are going…
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Some People Are Light (in your life)
I am convinced that some people come into our lives and you just feel it, they are light in your path. Those people heal you, their presence makes you smile, their advice makes you better. You vibe with them in ways that just feels right. And even when their light…
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I Come As One But I Stand As 10,000
“I come as one, but I stand as 10,000” – Maya Angelou. This is a phrase I like to repeat to myself whenever I’m about to face a challenging situation and when strength is my only source of courage to stand up on my own two feet. I come as…
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A Feeling Before the Result
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear. -Michelle Obama. Click here to read the original Spanish version What would become of us if we simply decided to not risk anything? This goes for…
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Why I Created This Page
This is my take. Sometimes when I write here, it feels like the three languages I speak merge together, which is why I don’t aim to be perfect, but aim to let my words flow in the truest way they can. Yes, I can choose to write in Spanish, or…