My Story (Part I): Traumatic Childhoods, Being Highly Sensitive, Economic Instability, Immigrant Parents & More

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