June 12, 2025 • 32 mins
What happens when a first-generation Mexicana raised on "echarle ganas" finally stops abandoning herself? When the body breaks down from carrying too much? When ancestral wisdom starts whispering louder than cultural conditioning?
Welcome to the raw, unfiltered journey of Dora Alicia Praxedis—intuitive healer, life coach, and proud first-gen daughter of Tamaulipas immigrants. From growing up as a five-year-old caretaker in Chicago's suburbs to navigating teen pregnancy, perfectionism, and the relentless drive to blend in, Dora Alicia's story mirrors what many children of immigrants experience but rarely discuss.
The turning point came through physical breakdown—a herniated disc at 30 that forced her to stop numbing with 16-hour workdays and truly feel. This physical crisis, followed by her father's passing and the pandemic, initiated a profound spiritual awakening. Through working with life coaches, shamans, and reconnecting with practices reminiscent of her grandmother's limpias, Dora Alicia discovered that healing isn't just about fixing what's broken—it's about reclaiming what was always there.
"Ay Mijita" exists as a love letter to first-gen personas carrying invisible weight, those asking "why am I like this?" and seeking connection beyond survival. Future episodes will explore boundaries, generational trauma, ancestral healing, and the spiritual tools that help us return home to ourselves. Whether you're struggling with people-pleasing, perfectionism, or the complex dance between cultures, this podcast offers both medicine and mirror.
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Dora (00:07):
Hola, hola, welcome to Ay Mijita.
Embrace your Raices, reclaimyour Essencia.
I'm your host, Dora AliciaPraxedis, intuitive healer,
first-gen Latina and life coach,here to walk with you on this
healing journey.
This podcast is a sacred spaceto unpack generational wounds,
reclaim your voice and reconnectwith your inner wisdom.
In today's first episode, Iwant to share my own story, the
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real, raw moments that shaped mypath and why this podcast
exists for personas like you.
I'm so glad you're here and Ican't wait to embark on this
journey together.
Hola, hola, and welcome to I MiHijita, embracing your Roots.
I'm your host, Dor AliciaPraxedis, intuitive healer, life
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coach, mama, hija hermana andproud first- gen Mexicana doing
the deeper inner work to breakgenerational cycles and
reconnect with my true self.
This podcast is for you.
Who's ever asked yourself whyam I like this?
Because deep down, you knowthere's more to your story than
just survival.
Here we dive into the messy,the magical, the medicine of
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healing, from inner child workto energetic limpias, astrology
to ancestral wisdom, humandesign to hard boundaries.
I share my lived experiences tohard boundaries.
I share my lived experiences,spiritual tools and teachable
moments, all with corazón yhonestidad.
So grab your cafecito tecito orthat bubbly drink you love.
And let's get into today'sepisode, porque tu historia, tu
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voz y tu healing matter.
Well, where do we start?
Well, from my early childhood,I was born as a first generation
Mexicana daughter in Chicago,and my parents came from
Tamaulipas, Mexico, so shout outto all the fam.
And my mom was actuallypregnant with me when she was
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seven months, and that's wherewe they migrated over here and
came to live with the tios, andthat was something that, for me,
was such a story because, forthe number of years my mom
always told me they came in aplane.
And so, growing up in theChicago West suburbs, in
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Schaumburg area Des Plaines, welived in a trailer park for a
number of years and then wemoved over to Schaumburg where I
went to kindergarten, andthat's when I started realizing
I needed to blend in.
There was majority of whiteclassmates and so for me, being
the only Mexicana there orLatina for that matter Growing
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up in Roselle, after I switchedschools in first grade, I was
able to then get into the groove, let's say, of school, and my
parents always worked all thetime, so it was something to get
used to.
I am the oldest of threesiblings, all girls, and so my
poor dad growing up with allgirls, his whole life in one
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bathroom, was not easy.
At one point we did have quitea bit of families living with us
in a three-bedroom, one-bathhouse in Roselle on Irving Park
and growing up we always knewthat for me it was very embedded
that I needed to speak Englishand no accent.
So I do speak Spanish.
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Me encanta más el españolporque es el lenguaje del amor,
I say.
And ever since I was younger wealways had like this revolving
door of babysitters, becausewhoever was home that's the
person that would feed you.
And so at a very young age,like around five, my parents
since they always worked Ibecame the babysitter for my
younger sisters.
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So can you imagine afive-year-old going to
kindergarten but then takingcare of her younger sisters?
And so we were very tight-knitand it was such a pressure to be
responsible, right Like toprotect my sisters, to make sure
that the other people were kindof keeping their line and I was
keeping our line.
I remember there was this onebabysitter that we fought over
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chips and someone ended updragging one of my sisters
through the living room by herhair.
That was not cool.
So again, there was a lot ofthings that happened during
childhood that made me andshaped me into realizing I had
to be responsible, I had to belike this grown person when in
reality, I was just wanting tolive my childhood, growing up.
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My parents were always fearfulof the outside world.
I think my dad instilled thatin us, that you don't trust
anybody.
The only people that you trustis your family, your blood, and
so there was a lot of pressurearound being perfect for me.
So there was a lot of pressurearound being perfect for me.
I think it was instilled that Ihad to perform like do the
grades be smart, because that'sall that was my job.
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I had to go to school and comeback home, take care of my
sisters, and I didn't really doany extracurricular activities
such as sports, and that becauseof the childhood that I had,
because of the childhood that Ihad, I just felt that was enough
and I didn't know better.
And so for me, emotionally,when I would feel down, my
parents would probably say justsuck it up and go to your room,
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kind of thing, and composeyourself.
For me, one method of myreleasing is crying.
So I would just cryunconsolably.
And if I knew I was getting introuble.
That was the other thing.
I did not want to disappoint myparents.
That was such a big thing forme growing up and don't get me
wrong, my parents, they're veryhardworking people.
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I remember my dad would get upat four in the morning, go to do
this breakfast gig in themorning, then go to work his
full-time job and then get outof work like around later in the
day and then go to work anotherjob and then come home late at
night and there were probablytimes I never saw him because he
worked second shift for such along time and I did miss that.
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My mom same thing.
She would go to work in themorning, come home, do something
quick and then go straight outthe door to work her second job,
and that was to make ends meet.
So we had the life you wouldsay the perfect life.
We had the cars, we had thehouse, we had the everything,
the clothes, but for me I reallymissed out on having that
family unit.
We did not eat meals together.
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I don't remember ever eatingsomething together.
Everybody was kind of come andgo and my dad was a very
hardworking man and so for me,just when I would go to school I
would code switch, like try tofit in, and then coming back
home it was finally I would berelaxed.
But then when people werearound, I felt like I had to
perform, like I had to be thisresponsible person, especially
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when it came down to my sisters.
Like everybody was kind ofdoing their own thing, so we
didn't really have that much ofa bond growing up, so if I was
feeling sad, I don't feel like Ihad the opportunity to actually
voice that or there wasn't anyspace for that because, again,
everybody was kind of doingtheir own thing and we spent
very limited time together,having this mentality that I
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always had to perform, pleaseothers, especially when it came
to my parents, I didn't reallyhave friends, I didn't hang out
with them after school, and sofor me, family was everything.
I did look forward to theweekends, though, because I got
to admit like the primos, thetios, like the whole extended
family would come over, we wouldgo to someone's house for a
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cookout and I could see my youknow play around with my cousins
and that sing around, dokaraoke, and that was so fun and
so nurturing to have that as afamily growing up.
When I got to high school,that's when things really
started to change.
I became a rebel, in a way thatfreshman year in high school,
because I wanted to go out and Iwanted to not live such a
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strict life with my parents athome.
And fortunately I was able tosneak out and go to the movies,
do the things that normal kidsmy age did.
And over the summer of myfreshman year, that's when I
found my boyfriend and I haddated before, so I kind of knew
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what I was looking for anotherperson, I guess, but at 16
you're really not thinking.
But over that summer we wereable to hang out, really bond,
and about six months later,that's when I became pregnant,
mid through my sophomore year,with my oldest daughter, and
telling my parents was a very,very difficult thing.
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When they finally did realizethat I was pregnant, I had run
away and they made me come backhome, because it's illegal to
leave your house just like thatbecause I was underage.
And I came back home and that'swhen I realized it gave me a
second opportunity that mostteen parents don't get, and I
did not realize it at the time.
But I was living at home and Ifinished high school.
I was very smart kid but notsmart enough to know like the
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unintended consequences of myactions and how they affected
everyone.
So that was a really big dealat home and that's when I feel
like my family started fallingapart.
All the things that wereunknown and been known to us as
kids my parents' marriage that'swhen things started going
really, really south and for thelongest time I blamed myself.
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But having that relationshipwith my mom eventually talking
about these things, that's whenI realized it wasn't me, it was
actually the parents.
My mom just never really hadthat connection with my dad.
On the love on a romantic leveland this was really hard to hear
because I always thought peoplegot married because they love
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each other I actually thought Iwas going to live out my fairy
tale princess story, but with mymom I was able to grow and over
this podcast I'll talk aboutdifferent things, different
stories around that, andespecially like suffering that
teen pregnancy at a young age,how that shaped my life.
But for the purposes of todayI'll keep it kind of simple.
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I did graduate high school andthen I went on to college and
then I'm still married to my nowhusband.
So this year we'll be togetherfor 23 years and it sounds
beyond me that we've spent thatmuch time together over half my
life.
And so there's all thesedifferent things that I had to
learn along the way.
So, feeling the shame, theguilt, the I'm less than, the
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worthlessness, the depression,that anxiety that everybody's
looking at me, that really didhappen, and so those are the
things that we'll definitelytouch upon this podcast and all
that journey that I went throughto uncover some of those things
and how I was able to shiftthat mindset.
Well, eventually I got a job andI went to school for accounting
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and I thought I had to go toschool for something that I
really needed to excel at, andmath is my jam and I fortunately
did internships in that andaccounting and I knew, like in
high school and over my college,when I landed my first real job
, I say I was very fortunatebecause I've been there for over
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15 years now and I wanted toperform and all these things
that I was suffering, let's say,at home, or encountering at
home this conditioning that youneed to do your best, you need
to hustle, you need to work hard, and those are the strong work
ethic that my parents instilledin us, which I appreciate, but
it does have its flaws.
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It's always was like echarleganas, tienes que siempre
hacerlo mejor.
But it was more of like thisreprimanding thing if you didn't
perform, if you're notperforming, it comes across as
oh es flojo, no te gustatrabajar.
And so I didn't want to be likethat.
So when I would go to work,there was this point in time in
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my life where I would work nojoke like 16 hours a day.
I would wake up at five in themorning, go to sleep like at two
or three in the morning just tobe able to get my work done.
And at work, I didn't realizeoh well, if Dora is doing all
this stuff, let's just give hermore.
And it was great.
But I was pretty much likegnawing at myself.
I wasn't spending time with myfamily, and I later realized
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that what I was doing wasactually numbing with work.
I wanted to keep busy, anduntil I suffered this back
injury in 2018, when I turned 30, I feel like when you turn 30,
everything breaks down.
O sea, ya, no, es lo mismo.
And that's when my back wentout.
I actually had a herniated disc,so I used to work out all the
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time and I worked out six days aweek and I did Zumba, which was
my favorite, and jumping aroundand doing all these thingsumba,
which was my favorite, andjumping around and doing all
these things, and you knowtwisting and turning, and I
stopped doing it for about two,three months because of the
holidays and whatnot happeningsat home.
Personally, I went back toZumba with that same intensity
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and guess what my body was likeuh-uh, girl, you're not going to
do that.
And I ended up in the hospitalfor about three days and that's
when I took my mental break.
Let's just say I startedrealizing that life does not
revolve only around work and forme, I thought I was work like
being the accountant.
That's my identification,that's my like.
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My whole world revolved aroundthat, instead of asking myself
what do I like, what do I liketo do on my free time.
So during that back injury,obviously I couldn't even walk
for two weeks.
It was that's how intense itwas and I was in so much
excruciating pain, me dolia,todo mi cintura, everything, and
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I needed to slow down.
And that's the first time Iactually began to feel like,
feel what was happening.
And I knew intuitively therewas some sort of shift happening
with myself, that I wasstarting to realize how I needed
to mature and I was not goingto be immortal, like one day I
was actually going to die.
So, having all these deepthoughts and thinking I'm going
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to be paralyzed my whole life,like what, what am I going to do
with myself?
And I didn't realize that atthe time.
But now I know that when you'reabout 28 to 31 in life, you go
through this moment where youhave like an existential crisis,
like you're trying to figureout what do you want to do for
the rest of your life.
Is this where you see yourselflike your trajectory of life?
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And sitting with all those likeall that, all those thoughts
with painkillers and feelingthat much pain, all the
emotional and spiritual healingthat would be happening and it
would unfold in the coming years.
It wasn't only my pain, but itwas also our family pain and
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over the course of this podcastI'll definitely get into some of
those things that have happenedand transpired.
But one of the biggest thingswas my dad.
He ended up passing away in2019 from heart disease and that
was really hard to endurePhysically.
I was realizing that my bodywas holding on to a lot of
unprocessed trauma pain that Ihad on my body.
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I was also, let's just say, alittle overweight and I've also
struggled with that all my lifeand that's why I would hit the
gym so hard, because I thought,okay, I'm just going to go to
the gym and I'm going to be ableto all my life.
And that's why I would hit thegym so hard, because I thought,
okay, I'm just going to go tothe gym and I'm going to be able
to maintain my weight.
But every time I would yo-yobetween like 170 pounds to 220
was my max, and I'm not going tolie, food is my comfort.
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I love food, like my husband,my kids and I are foodies, so we
love to eat, we love everythingfor the most part, and it's
become something that we bondover.
So, for my body, obviously,there are certain things that
don't agree.
Now, as you get older, youstart learning like hmm, maybe
the chorizo is not so good foryou, right, because me, da
gruras and I'm paying for itlater.
And knowing these differentthings like about yourself,
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you're learning, right, you'reembracing yourself.
You, about yourself, you'relearning, right, you're you're
embracing yourself, you'relearning that you know this is
the norm and when we go to mymom's house to eat, like
everybody has that huevito conchorizo, but I actually hold off
on it because I know I'm goingto be paying for it later,
especially that spicy salsa thatshe makes my gosh it's.
You know, that thing will cleanyou out.
Eso en si es una limpia andvery sacred, definitely on the
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potty.
So that's where listening to thebody was one of the biggest
lessons that I've learned withespecially my back pain.
Recovering from that took me 18months.
I did a lot of physical therapy, saw a lot of doctors, got the
injections, did a minor likeprocedure there that burned all
the nerves around that area andI was able to recover slowly but
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surely.
And I was able to recoverslowly but surely and I do keep
up with it.
I go to my chiropractors.
There's other things that havecome up medically that I go out
to the doctor and just make surethat everything's checked out.
I want to keep that longevity,I want to see my kids grow up
and I one day want to see mygrandkids, if they so choose, to
have kids, and those are allthe different things that kind
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of crossed my mind.
So, thinking about the futureright, and that was something
for the past eight years.
I've embarked on this journeyof like.
Why am I the way?
Why am I the way I am?
Or what are my limiting beliefs?
What holds me back?
Why do I want to be thisperfectionist, you know, like I
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always call it my Beyoncesyndrome, because I want to be
perfect and I care for whatother people think, even though
I say I don't, but I really do.
And most people tell me that,oh, tienes una confianza y todo.
But that confidence doesn'tcome on easy.
I do have to try in the way oflike, pep myself, you know, pep
myself up, and I realized that Iwould beat myself up with words
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Like, you know, it is anappendage, like all these things
like from childhood kind ofcoming up in my mind.
I thought that's what I amright, that's what I identify
myself as.
But no, like, in the mornings Iactually have my rituals, I do
talk to myself and I'm like no,you did a good job, you're doing
the best you can.
And that's what kept me going.
And with this back injury,that's when I realized that I
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had lost my connection with God.
So every time I feel like and Iam like.
When I was clinically depressedduring my pregnancies, I
realized that I just lost myselfcompletely in that darkness,
that I lost God.
I didn't find him.
I thought I was alone.
But actually I was just goingthrough a season in my life that
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I needed to kind of do it on myown, to know and realize how
love and compassion work, causeI was definitely not loving
compassionate with myself.
I am with others.
Like, ask yourself thisquestion Would you treat others
the same way you treat yourselfLike?
Would you actually say some ofthose things that you say in
your head to yourself?
Would you call someone elselike, say, your best friend, a
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pendejo?
Like seriously, if you know, oryour nephew or niece?
Would you actually say thosethings to them?
I probably most likely than not, no, because those are very
hurtful things, but we actuallydo it to ourselves.
So that was one of the biggestlessons as well, that I would
sit with myself and think outloud.
So on a day to day, we carry somuch weight just with our
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thoughts, our emotions, ourfeelings, and sometimes I would
just say, oh, I'm too busy, Idon't have time to think about
that right now, or I don't havetime to be sad right now.
I need to work, I need to getthis done, and life should not
be that way.
You should take a moment if youcan right.
Obviously, if you have meetingsor if you have commitments, you
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have to probably get throughthose first, but it takes you
about five minutes.
Go to the bathroom, sit on thatpotty, calm yourself down,
breathe four in four counts in,hold it for four, four counts
out and regulate your system,your nervous system, emotional
regulation and intelligence,I've learned, is an actual thing
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, so we'll dive into that inthis podcast Now.
Following the thread on thathealing journey of mine, that's
when I started realizing readingthe Bible, following spirit,
being more in tune with my body.
Then I had some intuition and Istarted listening to a podcast
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that talked about, like,emotionally, what's going on
there.
And then, of course, in 2020,covid hit and that's when I
started really delving deep intosome of these things.
I started geeking out onastrology, human design, and
there was something that I wouldremember my mom and my grandma
would do of a limpia with an egg, and that's how I was able to
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find my shaman and go to someclasses, but then also go
through the motions of findingother mentors, teachers, about
just following my intuition, andthat's when I started tapping
into the Akashic Records.
I did a program for about 18months that I could tap in and
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open those records and have thislike limitless space and have
spirit come through, and it'ssuch a sacred practice for me to
sit with myself but then alsoconnect with higher self and the
divine.
One of the biggest investments Idid was hire a life coach and I
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thought maybe I want to be alife coach in the future and I
obviously have to kind ofpractice what you preach.
So I hired a life coach and shewas super spiritual.
She taught me so much,especially when it came to
handling and managing myemotions, especially when it
came to handling and managing myemotions, and this happened
like a year before my dad passedaway.
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So uncovering and unearthingsome of those things, being able
to be at peace with my dad,being able to forgive so much
and talk about things on my side, but not necessarily with him
is that forgiveness right?
The accepting my dad for who hewas and how he was, and also
home life, like being that momshowing up as a mom that I
wanted to be, be present insteadof working so much.
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And then with my husband, Iwanted to be a better wife.
I wanted to be able to connectwith him.
We would fight constantly.
There was a lot of things thatwe wouldn't be able to resolve.
I would always be worried aboutmoney.
I was worried about being fatand my medical conditions as
well, because it didn't reallyhelp my back injury, and so I
wanted to become and I wanted toget back to it.
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And having a life coach wassomething was a biggest
investment for me on all levels,not only financially.
It ended up starting to switchover my life because I started
changing as a mom.
I started changing as a wifewith my husband, because I was
starting to pay attention.
I became like active listenerversus trying to figure out what
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I'm going to say next.
So essentially, my relationshipwith others completely changed.
There was a lot of turbulentmoments, let's say, with my
sisters as well, and workingwith all these mentors, coaches,
shaman, therapists andcuranderos, I was able to start
tapping into a gift that I havethat I didn't realize that I had
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.
Which we all do have, isintuition and connection to that
divine, to God, to spirit, tothe universe, and being able to
manifest and focus, likewherever your mind focuses.
That's what you're going tomanifest more of, and I didn't
realize how powerful that was.
Some people call it the law ofattraction and they identify it
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as that, but there's just howwe're all interconnected in a
way and how your actions matter,like you don't know who's
watching, but someone's watchingyou, someone is looks up to you
and someone wants to be likeyou, and not that everything you
do.
But if somebody copies you, it'sactually a good thing.
I was taught growing up it'slike oh, you're such a poser,
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you know eres bien copion, andyou know it's actually a good
thing.
I was taught growing up it'slike oh, you're such a poser,
you know eres bien copión.
And you know, quieres hacertodo como yo.
But that competitiveness,that's actually a good thing,
that's healthy competition,because we're all elevating,
we're all celebrating ourselves.
And some people don't see itthat way and, to be honest, I
really cared what other peoplethought, especially in high
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school when you know so-and-so,had like this nice looking purse
or whatnot, and I wanted it too.
But that's where in after allthis like journeying through,
finding and learning so muchmore to life than just the
material, that's what reallycaused me to stop abandoning
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myself and started coming hometo myself.
Like who am I?
Like who?
What do I feel?
Why am I feeling this?
And like digging into it alittle deeper?
Because, essentially, we wantto be able to live in this
duality of darkness and light,the good and the bad, the
positive and the negative.
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There always has to be somebalance, and so my goal on a
daily is to be back to neutral,because, essentially, you don't
want to be muy up there, muy,muy, ni tan tan, right Back down
in the low.
You want to go back to neutralbecause you want to be able to
celebrate and you want to alsofeel those emotions that are
negative, because there isbalance in this world.
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So, essentially, covid made melook more into myself, right,
sit with myself, look inward andreally understand why I am the
way I am.
Why am I wired through humandesign and astrology?
Those are all indicators andjust gives me more information.
But it's confirmation of who Iam and claiming myself and where
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I'm coming from.
And if I'm able to understandmyself, I'm also able to
understand others, and that wasprobably another lesson in
epiphany that I learned wasaccepting myself gives others
permission to accept themselvesas well.
So why this podcast?
I created this podcast becauseI wish there was somebody out
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there that I could bond withover in my story, and I also
would love this to be a loveletter to those first-gen
personas carrying this invisibleweight, to know that there's
more to life than just goingthrough the motions and living
like a zombie, that, instead ofsuppressing all the different
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emotions, that we are able toprocess them and live a healthy
life for all, for the wellnessand longevity.
And so, as a mujer wearingvarious hats in my life all for
the wellness and longevity.
And so, as a mujer wearingvarious hats in my life, there's
a lot to unpack there, and so,hopefully, through my stories
and the different tools that Iuse, either you're able to walk
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away with this with so much moreknowledge and wisdom, and or we
work together, maybe in thefuture and that would be amazing
too.
And so this is a space toexplore your roots, reclaim your
truth and reconnect with youressence, and that's something
that I want to push forward.
I want it to be a movement.
I want you to be the bestversion of yourself every day,
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and so you'll hear solo episodes, guest stories, tools for
emotional healing, spiritualinsights and, of course, chisme
de corazon, and so these topicswill definitely include
boundaries, generational trauma,ancestral healing relationships
, spiritual tools and personalpower.
So hopefully, you definitelystay tuned, because there's so
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much more that we're going toembark on this journey together.
Now, something I love to doevery day, or when I think of it
as a practice, is pull a cardfrom one of my oracle decks, and
so this one is from Guides ofthe Hidden Realms, oracle from
Colette Barron-Reed, and thismorning and this message is
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probably for someone listeningand for myself included is card
number 30, enough for now andalways.
The key concepts here are youare enough, worthiness, having
what you need, faith in needsbeing met, our need for
emotional and intellectualnourishment, and asking for help
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and getting it.
So this card speaks on.
It's an amazing feeling totruly understand your needs in
life and trust they will be met.
When you have healthyself-esteem, you know you are
worthy of the gifts the universehas bestowed on you and you
comfortably hold space for yoursuccess.
Your hard work, focus andenergy are leading you to a
fulfilling, abundant experience.
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This is also a reminder that noone person can meet all of
another's needs.
A romantic partner may meetcertain needs, while friends and
family are needed for others tobe fulfilled.
Reflect on how much you'regiving to others and whether you
may be depleting yourself.
You are not the unlimitedsource of someone's be depleting
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yourself.
You are not the unlimitedsource of someone's, of anyone's
supply.
It is okay to ask for help, infact, expect to receive it.
You are worthy and help isalways available.
You are in a time of a win-win.
Focus on nourishing yourselfwith experiences that bring you
joy.
Doing so will give you theenergy and knowledge to then
nourish others.
So for me, this card justrepresents that having the
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attitude of being able toreceive is such a big gift,
having that help, because wecan't do it on ourselves or by
ourselves.
We need to go through thisjourney of life together and
collectively.
We are all helping and liftingeach other up, and so work on.
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If you have issues or trouble,kind of receiving, like I have
in the past.
I thought I had to be thechingona right, the one that
needed to keep going and do itall on my own, but not knowing
that you have a whole tribebehind you, all these people
that love you and nurture youJust déjate querer, déjate amar.
You have a whole tribe behindyou, all these people that love
you and nurture you.
Just déjate querer, déjate amarand love yourself in the
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process too.
So just learn to accept allthose things that are coming
your way.
Everybody has a blessing, andsometimes it's really crappy
blessing, like it's a veryshitty situation, but it could
be very beautiful as well.
So learn to accept and embraceit all and definitely going to
sit with this card a little bitmore and see how it unfolds for
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me today and how it unfolds foryou.
I'm kind of curious.
Gracias for being here with me.
If my story resonated, I inviteyou to keep tuning in.
This is just the beginning.
We're diving deep into healingculture and reclaiming who we
are.
Hit the follow button, sharethis with your comadres and DM
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Next week's episode is all aboutthe generational wounds we
carry as first gen personitas ineste mundo and how they show up
in our daily lives.
Te veo pronto, cariño yrecuerda.
Embrace your raices, reclaimyour esencia.
Gracias por acompañarme, cariño.
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I hope this episode offered youa moment of connection with
your story, your ancestors, ormaybe even a part of yourself
you've forgotten connection withyour story, your ancestors, or
maybe even a part of yourselfyou've forgotten.
Remember, healing isn't linear.
Sometimes it's a whisper, aboundary, a quiet no mas.
Other times it's a breakthroughthat shifts everything.
Whatever it is for you today,honor it.
You're not alone on this path.
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Till next time, keep embracingyour raices, reclaiming your
esencia and walking your path Padentro y pa fuera.
Hola, hola, welcome to Ay Mijita.
Embrace your Raices, reclaimyour Essencia.
I'm your host, Dora AliciaPraxedis, intuitive healer,
first-gen Latina and life coach,here to walk with you on this
healing journey.
This podcast is a sacred spaceto unpack generational wounds,
reclaim your voice and reconnectwith your inner wisdom.
In today's first episode, Iwant to share my own story, the
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real, raw moments that shaped mypath and why this podcast
exists for personas like you.
I'm so glad you're here and Ican't wait to embark on this
journey together.
Hola, hola, and welcome to I MiHijita, embracing your Roots.
I'm your host, Dor AliciaPraxedis, intuitive healer, life
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coach, mama, hija hermana andproud first- gen Mexicana doing
the deeper inner work to breakgenerational cycles and
reconnect with my true self.
This podcast is for you.
Who's ever asked yourself whyam I like this?
Because deep down, you knowthere's more to your story than
just survival.
Here we dive into the messy,the magical, the medicine of
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healing, from inner child workto energetic limpias, astrology
to ancestral wisdom, humandesign to hard boundaries.
I share my lived experiences tohard boundaries.
I share my lived experiences,spiritual tools and teachable
moments, all with corazón yhonestidad.
So grab your cafecito tecito orthat bubbly drink you love.
And let's get into today'sepisode, porque tu historia, tu
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voz y tu healing matter.
Well, where do we start?
Well, from my early childhood,I was born as a first generation
Mexicana daughter in Chicago,and my parents came from
Tamaulipas, Mexico, so shout outto all the fam.
And my mom was actuallypregnant with me when she was
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seven months, and that's wherewe they migrated over here and
came to live with the tios, andthat was something that, for me,
was such a story because, forthe number of years my mom
always told me they came in aplane.
And so, growing up in theChicago West suburbs, in
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Schaumburg area Des Plaines, welived in a trailer park for a
number of years and then wemoved over to Schaumburg where I
went to kindergarten, andthat's when I started realizing
I needed to blend in.
There was majority of whiteclassmates and so for me, being
the only Mexicana there orLatina for that matter Growing
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up in Roselle, after I switchedschools in first grade, I was
able to then get into the groove, let's say, of school, and my
parents always worked all thetime, so it was something to get
used to.
I am the oldest of threesiblings, all girls, and so my
poor dad growing up with allgirls, his whole life in one
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bathroom, was not easy.
At one point we did have quitea bit of families living with us
in a three-bedroom, one-bathhouse in Roselle on Irving Park
and growing up we always knewthat for me it was very embedded
that I needed to speak Englishand no accent.
So I do speak Spanish.
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Me encanta más el españolporque es el lenguaje del amor,
I say.
And ever since I was younger wealways had like this revolving
door of babysitters, becausewhoever was home that's the
person that would feed you.
And so at a very young age,like around five, my parents
since they always worked Ibecame the babysitter for my
younger sisters.
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So can you imagine afive-year-old going to
kindergarten but then takingcare of her younger sisters?
And so we were very tight-knitand it was such a pressure to be
responsible, right Like toprotect my sisters, to make sure
that the other people were kindof keeping their line and I was
keeping our line.
I remember there was this onebabysitter that we fought over
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chips and someone ended updragging one of my sisters
through the living room by herhair.
That was not cool.
So again, there was a lot ofthings that happened during
childhood that made me andshaped me into realizing I had
to be responsible, I had to belike this grown person when in
reality, I was just wanting tolive my childhood, growing up.
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My parents were always fearfulof the outside world.
I think my dad instilled thatin us, that you don't trust
anybody.
The only people that you trustis your family, your blood, and
so there was a lot of pressurearound being perfect for me.
So there was a lot of pressurearound being perfect for me.
I think it was instilled that Ihad to perform like do the
grades be smart, because that'sall that was my job.
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I had to go to school and comeback home, take care of my
sisters, and I didn't really doany extracurricular activities
such as sports, and that becauseof the childhood that I had,
because of the childhood that Ihad, I just felt that was enough
and I didn't know better.
And so for me, emotionally,when I would feel down, my
parents would probably say justsuck it up and go to your room,
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kind of thing, and composeyourself.
For me, one method of myreleasing is crying.
So I would just cryunconsolably.
And if I knew I was getting introuble.
That was the other thing.
I did not want to disappoint myparents.
That was such a big thing forme growing up and don't get me
wrong, my parents, they're veryhardworking people.
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I remember my dad would get upat four in the morning, go to do
this breakfast gig in themorning, then go to work his
full-time job and then get outof work like around later in the
day and then go to work anotherjob and then come home late at
night and there were probablytimes I never saw him because he
worked second shift for such along time and I did miss that.
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My mom same thing.
She would go to work in themorning, come home, do something
quick and then go straight outthe door to work her second job,
and that was to make ends meet.
So we had the life you wouldsay the perfect life.
We had the cars, we had thehouse, we had the everything,
the clothes, but for me I reallymissed out on having that
family unit.
We did not eat meals together.
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I don't remember ever eatingsomething together.
Everybody was kind of come andgo and my dad was a very
hardworking man and so for me,just when I would go to school I
would code switch, like try tofit in, and then coming back
home it was finally I would berelaxed.
But then when people werearound, I felt like I had to
perform, like I had to be thisresponsible person, especially
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when it came down to my sisters.
Like everybody was kind ofdoing their own thing, so we
didn't really have that much ofa bond growing up, so if I was
feeling sad, I don't feel like Ihad the opportunity to actually
voice that or there wasn't anyspace for that because, again,
everybody was kind of doingtheir own thing and we spent
very limited time together,having this mentality that I
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always had to perform, pleaseothers, especially when it came
to my parents, I didn't reallyhave friends, I didn't hang out
with them after school, and sofor me, family was everything.
I did look forward to theweekends, though, because I got
to admit like the primos, thetios, like the whole extended
family would come over, we wouldgo to someone's house for a
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cookout and I could see my youknow play around with my cousins
and that sing around, dokaraoke, and that was so fun and
so nurturing to have that as afamily growing up.
When I got to high school,that's when things really
started to change.
I became a rebel, in a way thatfreshman year in high school,
because I wanted to go out and Iwanted to not live such a
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strict life with my parents athome.
And fortunately I was able tosneak out and go to the movies,
do the things that normal kidsmy age did.
And over the summer of myfreshman year, that's when I
found my boyfriend and I haddated before, so I kind of knew
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what I was looking for anotherperson, I guess, but at 16
you're really not thinking.
But over that summer we wereable to hang out, really bond,
and about six months later,that's when I became pregnant,
mid through my sophomore year,with my oldest daughter, and
telling my parents was a very,very difficult thing.
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When they finally did realizethat I was pregnant, I had run
away and they made me come backhome, because it's illegal to
leave your house just like thatbecause I was underage.
And I came back home and that'swhen I realized it gave me a
second opportunity that mostteen parents don't get, and I
did not realize it at the time.
But I was living at home and Ifinished high school.
I was very smart kid but notsmart enough to know like the
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unintended consequences of myactions and how they affected
everyone.
So that was a really big dealat home and that's when I feel
like my family started fallingapart.
All the things that wereunknown and been known to us as
kids my parents' marriage that'swhen things started going
really, really south and for thelongest time I blamed myself.
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But having that relationshipwith my mom eventually talking
about these things, that's whenI realized it wasn't me, it was
actually the parents.
My mom just never really hadthat connection with my dad.
On the love on a romantic leveland this was really hard to hear
because I always thought peoplegot married because they love
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each other I actually thought Iwas going to live out my fairy
tale princess story, but with mymom I was able to grow and over
this podcast I'll talk aboutdifferent things, different
stories around that, andespecially like suffering that
teen pregnancy at a young age,how that shaped my life.
But for the purposes of todayI'll keep it kind of simple.
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I did graduate high school andthen I went on to college and
then I'm still married to my nowhusband.
So this year we'll be togetherfor 23 years and it sounds
beyond me that we've spent thatmuch time together over half my
life.
And so there's all thesedifferent things that I had to
learn along the way.
So, feeling the shame, theguilt, the I'm less than, the
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worthlessness, the depression,that anxiety that everybody's
looking at me, that really didhappen, and so those are the
things that we'll definitelytouch upon this podcast and all
that journey that I went throughto uncover some of those things
and how I was able to shiftthat mindset.
Well, eventually I got a job andI went to school for accounting
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and I thought I had to go toschool for something that I
really needed to excel at, andmath is my jam and I fortunately
did internships in that andaccounting and I knew, like in
high school and over my college,when I landed my first real job
, I say I was very fortunatebecause I've been there for over
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15 years now and I wanted toperform and all these things
that I was suffering, let's say,at home, or encountering at
home this conditioning that youneed to do your best, you need
to hustle, you need to work hard, and those are the strong work
ethic that my parents instilledin us, which I appreciate, but
it does have its flaws.
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It's always was like echarleganas, tienes que siempre
hacerlo mejor.
But it was more of like thisreprimanding thing if you didn't
perform, if you're notperforming, it comes across as
oh es flojo, no te gustatrabajar.
And so I didn't want to be likethat.
So when I would go to work,there was this point in time in
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my life where I would work nojoke like 16 hours a day.
I would wake up at five in themorning, go to sleep like at two
or three in the morning just tobe able to get my work done.
And at work, I didn't realizeoh well, if Dora is doing all
this stuff, let's just give hermore.
And it was great.
But I was pretty much likegnawing at myself.
I wasn't spending time with myfamily, and I later realized
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that what I was doing wasactually numbing with work.
I wanted to keep busy, anduntil I suffered this back
injury in 2018, when I turned 30, I feel like when you turn 30,
everything breaks down.
O sea, ya, no, es lo mismo.
And that's when my back wentout.
I actually had a herniated disc,so I used to work out all the
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time and I worked out six days aweek and I did Zumba, which was
my favorite, and jumping aroundand doing all these thingsumba,
which was my favorite, andjumping around and doing all
these things, and you knowtwisting and turning, and I
stopped doing it for about two,three months because of the
holidays and whatnot happeningsat home.
Personally, I went back toZumba with that same intensity
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and guess what my body was likeuh-uh, girl, you're not going to
do that.
And I ended up in the hospitalfor about three days and that's
when I took my mental break.
Let's just say I startedrealizing that life does not
revolve only around work and forme, I thought I was work like
being the accountant.
That's my identification,that's my like.
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My whole world revolved aroundthat, instead of asking myself
what do I like, what do I liketo do on my free time.
So during that back injury,obviously I couldn't even walk
for two weeks.
It was that's how intense itwas and I was in so much
excruciating pain, me dolia,todo mi cintura, everything, and
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I needed to slow down.
And that's the first time Iactually began to feel like,
feel what was happening.
And I knew intuitively therewas some sort of shift happening
with myself, that I wasstarting to realize how I needed
to mature and I was not goingto be immortal, like one day I
was actually going to die.
So, having all these deepthoughts and thinking I'm going
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to be paralyzed my whole life,like what, what am I going to do
with myself?
And I didn't realize that atthe time.
But now I know that when you'reabout 28 to 31 in life, you go
through this moment where youhave like an existential crisis,
like you're trying to figureout what do you want to do for
the rest of your life.
Is this where you see yourselflike your trajectory of life?
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And sitting with all those likeall that, all those thoughts
with painkillers and feelingthat much pain, all the
emotional and spiritual healingthat would be happening and it
would unfold in the coming years.
It wasn't only my pain, but itwas also our family pain and
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over the course of this podcastI'll definitely get into some of
those things that have happenedand transpired.
But one of the biggest thingswas my dad.
He ended up passing away in2019 from heart disease and that
was really hard to endurePhysically.
I was realizing that my bodywas holding on to a lot of
unprocessed trauma pain that Ihad on my body.
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I was also, let's just say, alittle overweight and I've also
struggled with that all my lifeand that's why I would hit the
gym so hard, because I thought,okay, I'm just going to go to
the gym and I'm going to be ableto all my life.
And that's why I would hit thegym so hard, because I thought,
okay, I'm just going to go tothe gym and I'm going to be able
to maintain my weight.
But every time I would yo-yobetween like 170 pounds to 220
was my max, and I'm not going tolie, food is my comfort.
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I love food, like my husband,my kids and I are foodies, so we
love to eat, we love everythingfor the most part, and it's
become something that we bondover.
So, for my body, obviously,there are certain things that
don't agree.
Now, as you get older, youstart learning like hmm, maybe
the chorizo is not so good foryou, right, because me, da
gruras and I'm paying for itlater.
And knowing these differentthings like about yourself,
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you're learning, right, you'reembracing yourself.
You, about yourself, you'relearning, right, you're you're
embracing yourself, you'relearning that you know this is
the norm and when we go to mymom's house to eat, like
everybody has that huevito conchorizo, but I actually hold off
on it because I know I'm goingto be paying for it later,
especially that spicy salsa thatshe makes my gosh it's.
You know, that thing will cleanyou out.
Eso en si es una limpia andvery sacred, definitely on the
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potty.
So that's where listening to thebody was one of the biggest
lessons that I've learned withespecially my back pain.
Recovering from that took me 18months.
I did a lot of physical therapy, saw a lot of doctors, got the
injections, did a minor likeprocedure there that burned all
the nerves around that area andI was able to recover slowly but
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surely.
And I was able to recoverslowly but surely and I do keep
up with it.
I go to my chiropractors.
There's other things that havecome up medically that I go out
to the doctor and just make surethat everything's checked out.
I want to keep that longevity,I want to see my kids grow up
and I one day want to see mygrandkids, if they so choose, to
have kids, and those are allthe different things that kind
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of crossed my mind.
So, thinking about the futureright, and that was something
for the past eight years.
I've embarked on this journeyof like.
Why am I the way?
Why am I the way I am?
Or what are my limiting beliefs?
What holds me back?
Why do I want to be thisperfectionist, you know, like I
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always call it my Beyoncesyndrome, because I want to be
perfect and I care for whatother people think, even though
I say I don't, but I really do.
And most people tell me that,oh, tienes una confianza y todo.
But that confidence doesn'tcome on easy.
I do have to try in the way oflike, pep myself, you know, pep
myself up, and I realized that Iwould beat myself up with words
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Like, you know, it is anappendage, like all these things
like from childhood kind ofcoming up in my mind.
I thought that's what I amright, that's what I identify
myself as.
But no, like, in the mornings Iactually have my rituals, I do
talk to myself and I'm like no,you did a good job, you're doing
the best you can.
And that's what kept me going.
And with this back injury,that's when I realized that I
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had lost my connection with God.
So every time I feel like and Iam like.
When I was clinically depressedduring my pregnancies, I
realized that I just lost myselfcompletely in that darkness,
that I lost God.
I didn't find him.
I thought I was alone.
But actually I was just goingthrough a season in my life that
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I needed to kind of do it on myown, to know and realize how
love and compassion work, causeI was definitely not loving
compassionate with myself.
I am with others.
Like, ask yourself thisquestion Would you treat others
the same way you treat yourselfLike?
Would you actually say some ofthose things that you say in
your head to yourself?
Would you call someone elselike, say, your best friend, a
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pendejo?
Like seriously, if you know, oryour nephew or niece?
Would you actually say thosethings to them?
I probably most likely than not, no, because those are very
hurtful things, but we actuallydo it to ourselves.
So that was one of the biggestlessons as well, that I would
sit with myself and think outloud.
So on a day to day, we carry somuch weight just with our
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thoughts, our emotions, ourfeelings, and sometimes I would
just say, oh, I'm too busy, Idon't have time to think about
that right now, or I don't havetime to be sad right now.
I need to work, I need to getthis done, and life should not
be that way.
You should take a moment if youcan right.
Obviously, if you have meetingsor if you have commitments, you
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have to probably get throughthose first, but it takes you
about five minutes.
Go to the bathroom, sit on thatpotty, calm yourself down,
breathe four in four counts in,hold it for four, four counts
out and regulate your system,your nervous system, emotional
regulation and intelligence,I've learned, is an actual thing
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, so we'll dive into that inthis podcast Now.
Following the thread on thathealing journey of mine, that's
when I started realizing readingthe Bible, following spirit,
being more in tune with my body.
Then I had some intuition and Istarted listening to a podcast
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that talked about, like,emotionally, what's going on
there.
And then, of course, in 2020,covid hit and that's when I
started really delving deep intosome of these things.
I started geeking out onastrology, human design, and
there was something that I wouldremember my mom and my grandma
would do of a limpia with an egg, and that's how I was able to
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find my shaman and go to someclasses, but then also go
through the motions of findingother mentors, teachers, about
just following my intuition, andthat's when I started tapping
into the Akashic Records.
I did a program for about 18months that I could tap in and
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open those records and have thislike limitless space and have
spirit come through, and it'ssuch a sacred practice for me to
sit with myself but then alsoconnect with higher self and the
divine.
One of the biggest investments Idid was hire a life coach and I
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thought maybe I want to be alife coach in the future and I
obviously have to kind ofpractice what you preach.
So I hired a life coach and shewas super spiritual.
She taught me so much,especially when it came to
handling and managing myemotions, especially when it
came to handling and managing myemotions, and this happened
like a year before my dad passedaway.
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So uncovering and unearthingsome of those things, being able
to be at peace with my dad,being able to forgive so much
and talk about things on my side, but not necessarily with him
is that forgiveness right?
The accepting my dad for who hewas and how he was, and also
home life, like being that momshowing up as a mom that I
wanted to be, be present insteadof working so much.
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And then with my husband, Iwanted to be a better wife.
I wanted to be able to connectwith him.
We would fight constantly.
There was a lot of things thatwe wouldn't be able to resolve.
I would always be worried aboutmoney.
I was worried about being fatand my medical conditions as
well, because it didn't reallyhelp my back injury, and so I
wanted to become and I wanted toget back to it.
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And having a life coach wassomething was a biggest
investment for me on all levels,not only financially.
It ended up starting to switchover my life because I started
changing as a mom.
I started changing as a wifewith my husband, because I was
starting to pay attention.
I became like active listenerversus trying to figure out what
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I'm going to say next.
So essentially, my relationshipwith others completely changed.
There was a lot of turbulentmoments, let's say, with my
sisters as well, and workingwith all these mentors, coaches,
shaman, therapists andcuranderos, I was able to start
tapping into a gift that I havethat I didn't realize that I had
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.
Which we all do have, isintuition and connection to that
divine, to God, to spirit, tothe universe, and being able to
manifest and focus, likewherever your mind focuses.
That's what you're going tomanifest more of, and I didn't
realize how powerful that was.
Some people call it the law ofattraction and they identify it
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as that, but there's just howwe're all interconnected in a
way and how your actions matter,like you don't know who's
watching, but someone's watchingyou, someone is looks up to you
and someone wants to be likeyou, and not that everything you
do.
But if somebody copies you, it'sactually a good thing.
I was taught growing up it'slike oh, you're such a poser,
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you know eres bien copion, andyou know it's actually a good
thing.
I was taught growing up it'slike oh, you're such a poser,
you know eres bien copión.
And you know, quieres hacertodo como yo.
But that competitiveness,that's actually a good thing,
that's healthy competition,because we're all elevating,
we're all celebrating ourselves.
And some people don't see itthat way and, to be honest, I
really cared what other peoplethought, especially in high
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school when you know so-and-so,had like this nice looking purse
or whatnot, and I wanted it too.
But that's where in after allthis like journeying through,
finding and learning so muchmore to life than just the
material, that's what reallycaused me to stop abandoning
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myself and started coming hometo myself.
Like who am I?
Like who?
What do I feel?
Why am I feeling this?
And like digging into it alittle deeper?
Because, essentially, we wantto be able to live in this
duality of darkness and light,the good and the bad, the
positive and the negative.
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There always has to be somebalance, and so my goal on a
daily is to be back to neutral,because, essentially, you don't
want to be muy up there, muy,muy, ni tan tan, right Back down
in the low.
You want to go back to neutralbecause you want to be able to
celebrate and you want to alsofeel those emotions that are
negative, because there isbalance in this world.
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So, essentially, covid made melook more into myself, right,
sit with myself, look inward andreally understand why I am the
way I am.
Why am I wired through humandesign and astrology?
Those are all indicators andjust gives me more information.
But it's confirmation of who Iam and claiming myself and where
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I'm coming from.
And if I'm able to understandmyself, I'm also able to
understand others, and that wasprobably another lesson in
epiphany that I learned wasaccepting myself gives others
permission to accept themselvesas well.
So why this podcast?
I created this podcast becauseI wish there was somebody out
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there that I could bond withover in my story, and I also
would love this to be a loveletter to those first-gen
personas carrying this invisibleweight, to know that there's
more to life than just goingthrough the motions and living
like a zombie, that, instead ofsuppressing all the different
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emotions, that we are able toprocess them and live a healthy
life for all, for the wellnessand longevity.
And so, as a mujer wearingvarious hats in my life all for
the wellness and longevity.
And so, as a mujer wearingvarious hats in my life, there's
a lot to unpack there, and so,hopefully, through my stories
and the different tools that Iuse, either you're able to walk
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away with this with so much moreknowledge and wisdom, and or we
work together, maybe in thefuture and that would be amazing
too.
And so this is a space toexplore your roots, reclaim your
truth and reconnect with youressence, and that's something
that I want to push forward.
I want it to be a movement.
I want you to be the bestversion of yourself every day,
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and so you'll hear solo episodes, guest stories, tools for
emotional healing, spiritualinsights and, of course, chisme
de corazon, and so these topicswill definitely include
boundaries, generational trauma,ancestral healing relationships
, spiritual tools and personalpower.
So hopefully, you definitelystay tuned, because there's so
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much more that we're going toembark on this journey together.
Now, something I love to doevery day, or when I think of it
as a practice, is pull a cardfrom one of my oracle decks, and
so this one is from Guides ofthe Hidden Realms, oracle from
Colette Barron-Reed, and thismorning and this message is
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probably for someone listeningand for myself included is card
number 30, enough for now andalways.
The key concepts here are youare enough, worthiness, having
what you need, faith in needsbeing met, our need for
emotional and intellectualnourishment, and asking for help
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and getting it.
So this card speaks on.
It's an amazing feeling totruly understand your needs in
life and trust they will be met.
When you have healthyself-esteem, you know you are
worthy of the gifts the universehas bestowed on you and you
comfortably hold space for yoursuccess.
Your hard work, focus andenergy are leading you to a
fulfilling, abundant experience.
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This is also a reminder that noone person can meet all of
another's needs.
A romantic partner may meetcertain needs, while friends and
family are needed for others tobe fulfilled.
Reflect on how much you'regiving to others and whether you
may be depleting yourself.
You are not the unlimitedsource of someone's be depleting
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yourself.
You are not the unlimitedsource of someone's, of anyone's
supply.
It is okay to ask for help, infact, expect to receive it.
You are worthy and help isalways available.
You are in a time of a win-win.
Focus on nourishing yourselfwith experiences that bring you
joy.
Doing so will give you theenergy and knowledge to then
nourish others.
So for me, this card justrepresents that having the
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attitude of being able toreceive is such a big gift,
having that help, because wecan't do it on ourselves or by
ourselves.
We need to go through thisjourney of life together and
collectively.
We are all helping and liftingeach other up, and so work on.
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If you have issues or trouble,kind of receiving, like I have
in the past.
I thought I had to be thechingona right, the one that
needed to keep going and do itall on my own, but not knowing
that you have a whole tribebehind you, all these people
that love you and nurture youJust déjate querer, déjate amar.
You have a whole tribe behindyou, all these people that love
you and nurture you.
Just déjate querer, déjate amarand love yourself in the
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process too.
So just learn to accept allthose things that are coming
your way.
Everybody has a blessing, andsometimes it's really crappy
blessing, like it's a veryshitty situation, but it could
be very beautiful as well.
So learn to accept and embraceit all and definitely going to
sit with this card a little bitmore and see how it unfolds for
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me today and how it unfolds foryou.
I'm kind of curious.
Gracias for being here with me.
If my story resonated, I inviteyou to keep tuning in.
This is just the beginning.
We're diving deep into healingculture and reclaiming who we
are.
Hit the follow button, sharethis with your comadres and DM
me what part of the story landedfor you on Instagram at
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dpraxedis.
Next week's episode is all aboutthe generational wounds we
carry as first gen personitas ineste mundo and how they show up
in our daily lives.
Te veo pronto, cariño yrecuerda.
Embrace your raices, reclaimyour esencia.
Gracias por acompañarme, cariño.
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I hope this episode offered youa moment of connection with
your story, your ancestors, ormaybe even a part of yourself
you've forgotten connection withyour story, your ancestors, or
maybe even a part of yourselfyou've forgotten.
Remember, healing isn't linear.
Sometimes it's a whisper, aboundary, a quiet no mas.
Other times it's a breakthroughthat shifts everything.
Whatever it is for you today,honor it.
You're not alone on this path.
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If this episode resonated,please share it with an hermana
hermano, a prima primo or acomadre who needs to hear it too
.
Leave a review, hit, subscribeand let's keep building this
healing comunidad together.
Till next time, keep embracingyour raices, reclaiming your
esencia and walking your path Padentro y pa fuera.
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