There’s no doubt that staying healthy and preventing germs during the holidays has a different meaning after the past few years. From keeping your distance in the check-out line to the permanent hand sanitizer in your purse, we’re all extra...
Family
On being a Latina mom, breaking the cycle of generational trauma, and celebrating familia.Â
Chances are, if there’s a mami in your life, you’re tasked with picking out the perfect gift for her multiple times a year. Whether she’s your own mamá, your bestie, your sister or your prima, with all that gift giving,...
The tragic shooting at Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022 at Robb Elementary School left 19 children and 2 teachers dead and the community is still reeling from the loss. In the wake of the massacre, parents were left asking...
I didn’t know I had Latinx roots until I was in my pre-teens. My older sister always told me that my biological father was Puerto Rican, but I thought she was making fun of me because I was light skinned....
Dr. Lisette Sanchez is a bilingual licensed psychologist and founder of Calathea Wellness, a virtual practice providing individual therapy in California. She has a passion for working with BIPOC folxs and first-generation professionals. Generational trauma has been a hot topic in mental...
Sponsored by It’s always been important to me to have items around my home that bring me joy, rather than filling my home with loads of things just for the sake of it. Ultimately, I want to be surrounded by...
Sponsored by Becoming a homeowner is an unexpectedly emotional process. I wasn’t raised in a house my parents owned, so purchasing my first home felt like a huge accomplishment. I felt so much pride when this dream finally came true,...
Andrea Beatriz Arango’s ‘Iveliz Explains It All’ Spotlights Mental Health in Latinx Kids
As a middle-grade educator and English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, it came as no surprise when Boricua author Andrea Beatriz Arango decided to pen her debut novel-in-verse Iveliz Explains It All, which just released on Sept. 13. Aimed at...
Sponsored by When my husband and I bought our first home, it was a major fixer upper. We had already looked at dozens of houses, but none felt quite right. The minute I saw pictures of the house we ended...
During the second half of my third year of college, my mental health was at its lowest. My anxiety and depressed moods came and went too often that I was concerned as to why it was happening. I had experienced...
It is common knowledge Latinx parents, conservative ones at least, do not let their children, especially women, move out until marriage. I am the child of two Mexican parents who were not married for most of my life, however, having...
Certified Parent Coach Leslie Priscilla is a first-generation non-Black Chicana and the founder of Latinx Parenting, a bilingual organization, and the #EndChanclaCulture movement. Latinx Parenting is rooted in children’s rights, nonviolence, reparenting, intergenerational healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization...
