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							<title>Dismantling the Damaging Beauty Ideals Latinas Face</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<title>The Mental Health Struggles that Immigrants Face</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[This adjustment period is challenging as immigrants strive to integrate into American society while preserving their cultural identity. ]]></description>
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							<title>Mexican American Therapist Cynthia Perez Talks Decolonizing Mental Health for BIPOC</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sofía Aguilar]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Perez is an Indigenous Xicana therapist dedicated to inner child healing and ancestral wisdom. ]]></description>
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							<title>14 Latinx Mental Health Portrayals in TV and Film</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laysha Macedo]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 23:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA["One Day at a Time", "Gentefied", "With Love" are some of the Latinx series that featured authentic mental health struggles. ]]></description>
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							<title>Digame: Yanira Hernandez is a First Gen Latina Destigmatizing Therapy for BIPOC</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Yanira Hernandez is a First Generation Mexican American, daughter of undocumented immigrants, bilingual trauma-focused  therapist. ]]></description>
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							<title>Navigating Difficult Conversations with Familia During the Holidays</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Family time is around the corner and with that, the overwhelm of uncomfortable questions is beginning to set in.]]></description>
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							<title>Being an Indigenous Therapist Allows me to Empower My Community to Break Trauma Cycles</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[My experience as a first-generation Oaxacan daughter guided me toward becoming a therapist. ]]></description>
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							<title>Confronting the Boricua &#8216;Superwoman&#8217; Resilience Mindset</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lola Rosario]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Like many of our hermanas caribeñas and otras Latinas around the globe, Puerto Rican women wear the term resilience as a badge of honor. We’re taught at a young age to avoid complaining because la vida is unfair and we ‘best get used to it.’ While many might agree that being tough in the face]]></description>
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							<title>Grieving My Abuela Has Been Messy and Healing All at Once</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sofía Aguilar]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[For the rest of my life, February 19th will always be a hard day for me. It was the day my abuela passed away in 2021, a week after her 99th birthday, and everything that led up to the moment she was gone will always live clearly in my memory: her headache that turned out]]></description>
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							<title>Mental Health Guide for Being the Only Latina in the Room</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Alvarado]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Imagine this — you landed your dream job in your home city. The pay is great, the location is perfect, and you are feeling excited and motivated.]]></description>
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							<title>Cultural Practices that Help Cultivate Resilience in the Latinx Community</title>
							<link>https://hiplatina.com/cultural-practices-latinx-resilience/</link>
							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Lisette Sanchez]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[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. Throughout my life, the term &#8220;resilient&#8221; has been used to describe myself and many members of my fellow Latinx and larger BIPOC (Black, Indigenous,]]></description>
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							<title>How to Begin to Destigmatize Mental Health in the Latinx Community</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Saklein Smith]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Patricia Alvarado is a psychotherapist and owner and director of the group practice, Alvarado Therapy  &#38; co-founder of Latinx Healthy Minds providing mental health programs for Latinx professionals. I recently had the opportunity to visit Colombia, specifically a small town called Filandia. It is said that this small town was part of the inspiration for the movie Encanto. As]]></description>
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