the sancocho diaries
welcome to the sancocho diaries. two servings a week, con aguacate y to. a messy, nourishing mix of thoughts, stories, and the parts of me still simmering. for anyone who's ever felt like all their pieces belong somewhere.
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I spent my summer tending to my light (opens the original)
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On the podcast this week I reflected on some of the lessons from the summer. This came from the idea that this summer taught me it was safe to tend to my light. As a recovering people pleaser, eldest daughter, first gen girlie, I was taught and even celebrated encouraged to downplay my light. To tend to everyone’s needs before mine. and that’s come at a cost. in the past the biggest cost was my health. my endometriosis was at it’s peak when I was pouring out to my husband, my first big gi
can we stop pretending (opens the original)
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today on the podcast I went on a little bit of a rant talking about the thoughts that bubbled up to the surface after a conversation with a friend. we were talking about why we’re pretending any of this is normal. and I'm not just talking about the political hellscape that we’re living in, I'm talking about the day abnormalities that we’ve normalized. especially as women. we were talking about how all these expectation are placed on us to be the best. the best wifethe best partner the best mothe
who’s permission are you waiting for? (opens the original)
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This week on the pod I spent some time going over the concept of permission. This elusive thing that we can sometimes wait on, for it to be granted to us by something outside of ourselves, when in reality the only person that can give us permission is us. A hard pill to swallow, I know. But in so many parts of our life it’s true! <a class="button primary" href="https://op
sometimes you just have to do what you said you were going to do (opens the original)
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the alarm goes off and it’s time to do the thing you said, and now you have to decide.answer the call or don’t. the choice is yours, always. but what do you want to do? who do you want to be? you decideto hit snooze. just 10 more minutes and then you'll do it. the time passes and you’re back, hearing the bringgggg of the alarm. “okay, we have to get up” you say. you start getting ready, one thing after the other. taking the steps to actually get up and do what you said you’d do when the time cam
just because you feel stuck doesn't mean you are (opens the original)
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This week on the pod I shared how this notebook I found from 2018. It brought me back to a life so long ago and I flipped through the notebook seeing all the ways it was holding all these different versions of me the grad student, the merch girl - yes i used to sell tshirts and totes, the person trying to figure out her path. All of these things! And when I first flipped through the notebook i felt as
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