Notes on Healing and Liberation


A blog exploring somatic healing, emotional resilience, identity, liberation and embodied creativity. Written for purpose-driven, queer and BIPOC adults seeking deeper connection to themselves, their bodies and their communities —inside and beyond the therapy room.

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Dreaming of the You: How Selena Brought Me Home to Myself

Growing up brown in a white community, I felt an intangible sense that something about me was unlovable, though I couldn’t articulate what that thing was. This is the story about how revisiting my favorite childhood song, Dreaming of You, and learning more about Selena’s history and legacy, transformed my Chicana identity from an unnamed source of shame to pride and celebration.

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