A New Mirror

✨ A Letter to the Part of Us That Keeps Saying Yes When We Want to Scream “No Gracias” ✨ We weren’t born doing this — saying yes when our spirit was begging us to say no. We inherited it. From abuelas, from tired mothers, from cultures and churches that called it love to burn out in silence. 🔥 But something in us is waking up. And it’s not rage — it’s truth. It’s the nervous system saying: I MATTER. We’re not just tired — we’re Exhaustapated. (Yes, that’s a word now.) Nobody posted this on the fridge growing up — but let’s post it in our souls now: 💠 We can care about others without abandoning ourselves. 🪶 We can step back without being cruel. 🎯 We can say no — kindly, clearly, and without apology. We’ve answered texts with sugar-coated sí when our gut whispered, “por favor, no más.” 🫠 We’ve shape-shifted into human churros to avoid other people’s guilt. We’ve managed drama that didn’t start with...

🔥 Burned, Healed, and Now Holding a Lantern for Others (A real talk post for the beauty, wellness, and bilingual healing worlds) 🇵🇷 Let’s start here: every 9 weeks, another 20+ esthetics students get told a glossy story. “You’ll open a spa.” “Get scooped up by a medspa.” “Be rich, booked, and build a celeb brand.” What they don’t say? That they’re paying thousands of dólares to be sold a mentira — one that’s marketed as a career path, but smells like performance and is padded with evasive words. I've worked with instructors faking credentials, with fake lágrimas tattooed on their face, driving borrowed cars , making comentarios about students they should’ve been mentoring — not mocking, just saying. 🥁 I’ve seen nail techs “turned instructors” talking trash about students behind their backs. I’ve been in rooms with “leaders” who never went to instructor school, who shamed anyone with a backbone or a boundary. When I stopped...

🗣️ Let’s Talk About What We’re *Not* Saying Sometimes we don’t even realize we’re doing it — we slide into slippery words, phrases, or polished performances instead of just naming what’s real. Not because we’re fake. Because we’ve learned to survive this way. 🐾 Here are some of the ways we (yes, *we*) can end up avoiding clarity. They’re not sins — they’re survival scripts. But once we see them, we can shift them. 💬 Filter-speak — Filtro emocional: When we say “I’m sending love” 😇 instead of “I’m hurt” 💔 or “I don’t want to talk right now.” We clean it up so it sounds sweet — even if we’re silently screaming inside. 🥗 Word salad — Ensalada de palabras: Fancy, scattered phrases that *feel* deep... but leave people squinting like, “Huh?” 🤷‍♀️ Often rooted in nervous energy or trying to impress — not connection. 🔄 Spin language — Giro verbal: “I wasn’t avoiding you, I was... aligning my vibration.” ✨👻 Aka, spiritua...

💌 Follow Me — Intimate Strangersss 🥣 Post-Combat Childhood: The Sequel Nobody Asked For 🇵🇷 Some of us didn’t come home from a war. We came home to one. 🪖🛋️ Not everyone had a chancleta thrown at them with Olympic precision, but if that rings a bell… bienvenido. This doesn’t read like a guide — more like a mirror. The kind that didn’t hang in our homes. Just a small flashlight in a hallway nobody walked down with us. This one’s for the kids who became bodyguards without signing up. 🧃🫠 Maybe papá yelled at things no one could control. 🌪️ Maybe mamá cried while stirring arroz and said, “I’m fine.” 😭🍚 Maybe everyone around us kept performing as if nothing happened — even when everything did. 🤡 We didn’t put on armor. We turned into it. 🛡️ So yeah, there’s flinching when someone slams a drawer. Guilt for saying “I’m tired,” even when the exhaustion is l...