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September 9, 2023 49 mins
Join me in discussing how I got where I currently am. You can expect to hear about:
  • How I came to forget the majority of my childhood alongside my father and why this happens to many children who undergo trauma
  • Growing up sensitive and empathetic in a home environment that was unpredictable
  • Understanding the motivations behind my parents’ actions by observing their own dysfunctional upbringings in Mexico
  • Living in Compton with parents who worked factory jobs, we struggled financially
  • Emotional and verbal abuse in the home; domestic violence; constant threats and gaslighting of our calls for change; walking on eggshells; dissociation
  • Achievement as a coping mechanism and the collapse of this in college, led to crippling impostor syndrome
  • Inability to find a pathway after graduating from college
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