Your abuelita wasn't being superstitious. She was sharing wisdom, generational, oral and enturies-deep. And somehow, we were convinced to leave it all behind.

En este episodio, nos sentamos con Maribel Robles, LMFT to talk about something that's been sitting in our kitchens, backyards, and family stories all along: the power of plants to heal our minds.

This one is for the daughters and sons who rolled their eyes at the teas. Para las mamás who stopped growing plants when they adapted to life away from the homeland. For anyone who has ever felt disconnected from their own roots, literal and otherwise.

Dale play. Your abuelita would want you to.

To learn more:

https://hijasbellas.com/

https://hijasbellas.com/xicanablogger/

https://www.instagram.com/hijas_bellas/

Si has estado cargando algo heavy lately, un peso que no sabes ni cómo explicar then this episode is for you.

Quizás estás scrolling through your phone and you see another story, another family, another community member y algo en ti se rompe un poco más.

Creciste aquí. You did everything right. You learned both languages, you built the bridge, you carried your family's hopes like they were your own porque lo eran.

Y ahora estás aquí. Safe, technically. Pero watching something happen to your gente that feels wrong at a level you can't quite articulate. Not just sad. Not just stressed. Something deeper. Something que se siente como una traición.

Eso tiene nombre. Se llama moral injury.

Today we talk about this pain, de ese dolor específico que viene de ver algo injusto y no poder pararlo. About the guilt of being "bien" cuando otros no lo están. Del coraje que no sabes dónde poner. De crecer aquí, being told this country was worth it, y ahora no saber qué hacer con lo que estás sintiendo.

No hay fixes aquí. No te voy a dar una lista de cinco cosas. Solo espacio para nombrarlo juntos , because sometimes that is what we need.

"Termínate todo." "¿Por qué estás tan gorda?"

Creciste viendo a las mujeres en tu familia criticarse. Wearing fajas, skipping meals, commenting on each other's bodies before they even said hola. And nobody called it a problem — así eran las cosas.

But what if it wasn't okay? What if we just never had the words for it?

Esta semana, me siento con Nadia Solís, licensed clinical social worker, to talk about something our community rarely says out loud — disordered eating. The mixed messages, the wellness rabbit holes that start with buenas intenciones, the Slim-Fast at 12 years old.

En este episodio vas a aprender the warning signs to watch for — because a lot of us are living with this without even knowing it. We're also getting into the root causes, from generational trauma and family dynamics to anxiety, neurodivergence, and the pressure to just fit in.

Y vamos a hablar about why la comida de tu abuela is NOT the enemy — and what it actually looks like to heal your relationship with food sin perder tu cultura in the process.

Porque la comida es amor en nuestra cultura. So what happens when that relationship breaks?

Para las que se han sentido atrapadas entre "termínate todo" y "ya subiste de peso." Para las que pensaron que era normal — because every woman around them was doing it too.

If you want to learn more check out these resources:

https://www.nadiasolislcsw.com

Food, Culture and Healing resource guide

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gc9wD7s2w6pHPDrp05RkL_I63QiprvMT/view?usp=drive_link

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