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My mom caught the sweetest of moments between Cora

My mom caught the sweetest of moments between Cora and I today. She enjoys feeding me the way I feed her sometimes, and we happened to be FaceTiming with nana, who took a screenshot at the perfect moment. What a great memory 💜 Thanks mom!

I rarely jump onto these trends, but I decided to

I rarely jump onto these trends, but I decided to give it a whirl!

ChatGPT called me a “Mystic embodied entrepreneur” 🤭

Check out my new project @worldschoolmexico 💚🌻🌎

I’m not sure if this is just teething or the sta

I’m not sure if this is just teething or the start of reciprocal affection. She’s laughs meanwhile though, so I’m happy if she’s happy!

I binge watched Emily in Paris when Cora was a new

I binge watched Emily in Paris when Cora was a newborn. I watched every episode within two weeks time while nursing and napping her. What did women when they were nap trapped or cluster feeding when binge watching shows wasn’t an option? I never felt more grateful for a screen/Netflix in my life.

Now she’s interactive, playful, talkative and fun in addition to demanding, so I have even less reason to stare at a screen.

The other day we took her to the pool on a warm afternoon and dipped her toes in. The water was cold so it gave her the impulse to take steps out of the water and towards me as I held her with stretched arms.

Now her legs are moving even more and she’s getting her third tooth!

Crawling is on the horizon now that she’s seven months.

Being a mama is mostly fun, although I am experiencing that deep desire to get back to work and create in the adult world even more again.

🫶🏼😍

Happy new year my friends. May it be gentle and a

Happy new year my friends.

May it be gentle and abundant among us all.

And remember, good boundaries doesn’t mean isolating yourselves and others.

Love ya ✌🏼

Some parents live in the magic of life, even in th

With my precious gem of a baby girl ❤️

With my precious gem of a baby girl ❤️

Cora’s first flight at six months old to meet he

Cora’s first flight at six months old to meet her California family. It was a total breeze traveling with her - she didn’t complain even once from her 4am wake up to the four hour airplane ride. She’s already a dual citizen and traveling with two passports 🥰

Love that grows more tender, deeper, juicier, more

Love that grows more tender, deeper, juicier, more creative, and more adventurous isn’t an accident of chemistry or compatibility. It’s a lived practice shaped every day by the way two people meet, respond, and co-create life, loving polarity and vibrant intimacy.

When we contemplate attraction through the lens of Shakti and Shiva or the devotional dynamic of Radha and Krishna, we are pointing to a truth far older and more universal than romance. These pairs are symbolic expressions of poetic primordial polarity, the very forces that animate existence.

They are the pulse of consciousness meeting energy, stillness meeting movement, devotion meeting presence. And when couples understand and embody this inner meeting, their erotic life becomes something far more textured, meaningful, and alive.

Grateful for my sweet family and our little slice

Grateful for my sweet family and our little slice of vibrant paradise. 🩷

We were lucky enough to do a shoot with @srstudios

We were lucky enough to do a shoot with @srstudios_biz yesterday, who brought her mobile studio to the cabaña!

I am so in love! 🥰

My husband and I have noticed the tendency for peo

My husband and I have noticed the tendency for people to treat others as disposable. When and where did this start? Is it just American, and because so many Americans are relocating to Mexico, is this why we’re experiencing it so much more? It is something we both agree that we’ve never ever valued.

It definitely occurs to me that it may be an American tendency, but it is also just so easy to blame Americans for everything so I wanna open up the question and get some feedback from people in my community.

Have you experienced this? How do you deal with it? Where do you think it comes from? Does it primarily happen within the younger generations?

We’ve been in discussions about it for the past couple weeks, both amongst ourselves and in ceremony with others who have been hurt or disappointed by it like we have.

Sometimes awakening arrives like a piercing moment

Sometimes awakening arrives like a piercing moment of recognition—the instant you realize you’ve been shrinking to fit someone else’s comfort, or that you’ve been holding emotional labor that was never yours to carry. It’s sharp, clear, undeniable.

Other times it’s a slow unfolding—a gradual reclaiming of your voice around money, worth, boundaries and the right to lead without apologizing for the space you take. It’s the steady, day-by-day infusion of sovereignty.

And then there are the awakenings that feel like grace itself: the subtle internal shift that lifts you out of old conditioning you didn’t even know was shaping you. The moment you feel yourself stepping into visibility not as exposure, but as inevitability. A quiet expansion that says, this is who I am.

Because we need to show up as who we are, unapologetically, for ourselves and for future generations.

Also, shout out to my Mexican family. I married into a dream of an entrepreneurial tribe and I’m so grateful how fully accepted and loved I am by people who know what relations across borders have been. They’ve lived them and they could’ve judged me and projected all sorts of things on me, and while not everything is always rainbows and butterflies they love me like one of their own.

They have taught me new levels of strength and loyalty.

They’ve taught me how to coexist across perceived differences and come to the table, no matter what,
honoring my values and respecting others.

Thank you a million times over.

Who has noticed it? The way female entrepreneurs a

Who has noticed it? The way female entrepreneurs are expected to be everything at once…

Sensitive, but not too sensitive.
Empathic, but still the one who gets things done.
Soft enough to care for everyone’s feelings, yet strong enough to hold the whole operation together.
Be attractive, but not too attractive.
Be serious and driven, but don’t be hard. Shoulder pads are out of style.
And screw being honest, because you might hurt somebody’s feelings.

And then there’s money…
Where emotions run high, opinions run wild, and every choice seems to invite commentary and judgement.

Wanting prosperity can feel ‘greedy.’
Setting boundaries can feel ‘cold.’
People believing their trauma is the truth.

Asking for what you’re worth can feel like stepping into a spotlight that makes you even more vulnerable to judgment—because suddenly, everyone’s eyes are on you.

Does anyone else navigate this dance between emotional labor and leadership?

I totally understand the need to refine, grow and learn as someone who has been in leadership for years, but how about the influence of cancel culture, and the divisiveness of gossip and taking sides?

I hardly see this in the world of business when it comes to men, granted they have their own issues. I know we can’t compare apples to oranges. But it makes me wonder what we can learn from the contrast. And now after having lived in Mexico for four years and marrying into the culture, I see an even sharper contrast between Mexican and American mentalities when it comes to work, business and money.

Is it cultural, something hormonal, psychological, emotional? Why do we so commonly find ourselves in this intersection?

Is it the patriarchy influencing our conditions?

It’s honestly probably 1000 things, and I’m less interested now in trying to analyze or describe it and even more interested in standing for a change.

There must be women in my network that want the same.

The original designs to my engagement ring, and ou

The original designs to my engagement ring, and our wedding bands, along with the rings we made for the girls. From sketch to reality, the design of my engagement ring did change as I chose a different stone, but you can see that everything else pretty much stayed the same. Oskar is such a passionate and imaginative Creator and designer; he handmade all of our rings. I’ve been looking out for this photo for a while as it was buried in the archives of my thousands of photos, but I finally found it this morning and wanted to share! I feel so fortunate that my husband is not only so talented and shares this talent with the world, but that he also created heirloom pieces of jewelry that will stay in the family forever. ❤️💍✨

From my very first career day in elementary school

From my very first career day in elementary school thru well into my 20s, I had many ideas of what I would like to do for work in the world.

I think my elementary school self would be pretty happy with herself knowing the breadth of fields I’ve worked so far.

My 20 something self would be proud that I finally decided to become an entrepreneur.

My current day self often asks herself WTF she got herself into while also looking forward at the next steps necessary for everything to thrive.

Thank goodness I found a man who is similar to myself in so many ways, and so, so supportive.

Getting a four month old flower fairy baby to look

Getting a four month old flower fairy baby to look at the camera and focus happily for long enough to get a good shot on a windy day when you’re surrounded by colorful flowers, loud moving trains are nearby, and a couple of kids are having fun and chatterboxing is not exactly an easy task! But we tried. 🤗

Also, the postpartum hair loss has begun! I might be bald in two weeks, stay tuned for more updates. 😅😱🫣

When you have two big personalities in one relatio

When you have two big personalities in one relationship, you’re bound to experience conflict.

Actually, no matter the relationship, conflict exists. Some people just try and ignore it by avoiding topics when discomfort arises.

But when you have two passionate people learning to cooperate with one another, and especially if one tends toward the anxious end while the other tends toward avoidant, they could be completely missing signs and opportunities from one another that are meant to create repair and connection, because their styles and timelines are so different when it comes to soothing, solving disagreements and understanding themselves.

When those of us who have had more than one significant relationship in our lives start the next, often unknowingly, with beliefs, coping mechanisms and fears. This can also happen if we’ve gone through a big T traumatic event together or significant life changes, like a death, a big move or a birth of a child.

Throughout the course of life, we are in relationship to others, and aspects of our beings come up for consciousness along the way. These aspects can generate conflict in the field of the relationship which, if we aren’t in the habit of discussing the info from a secure and regulated position, can cause a destructive downhill battle. Downhill, because you dig your self deeper and deeper into a hole.

Communication skills and the ability to stay connected to ourselves (and to our partners experience), and therefore come to a better overall understanding, are probably the most important relationship skills two empowered people seeking to create a thriving relationship can hone.

A client who took a break from working with me cam

A client who took a break from working with me came back for his first session in awhile today and gave me the biggest compliment.

He said “You know, you’re a pain in the aşş, but you’re so wise.”

I told him that wasn’t the first time I’d heard those words.

And honestly, it’s an honor to be a pain in the aşş that people actually come back to for guidance when they know they’re out of alignment. That they think of me when they’re at a stand still.

You can’t be scared of human darkness or lightness in my line of work. People wrestle with their narratives, their pain, their past and THEY have to decide they want differently.

You’ve got to be comfortable with the venom and provide the antidote with precision timing.

There’s a mysterious beauty in becoming a mother

There’s a mysterious beauty in becoming a mother. Apparently, and to no surprise, not every woman experiences this consciously. I’ll speak more to that later in another post.

The becoming I’m speaking of is a maturation of the feminine mystique, a full display of the power of the heart of the primordial mother for others and a sensational opening of the heart for those who step into the embodiment of the goddess in her maternal form.

During the first few weeks of pregnancy, I experienced the most subtle and intimate transformation of my energetic heart space. It felt like a radiant blossoming of my heart that was deeply reinvigorating, all in divine timing as I was carrying my daughter who revealed her alignment with everything that the heart represented; years before she was conceived physically, she was known spiritually.

Once she was born, even as I was exhausted and taking medication while healing from an urgent c-section, everything in me told me to fully surrender to the highs and lows of this new journey. I realize that working with my energy body for years prepared me to do so in a world that doesn’t exactly make motherhood easeful, rather, the culture in which I grew up (if you could call it a culture, I use the term very lightly) negates the importance and tenderness of motherhood. I followed my intuition for years in order to develop the resilience and strength required to go through the immense transition without having experienced post partum depression, or even the baby blues.

Sure, there were many moments where tears sprung from a place in my heart that went untouched until I was reborn into a mother through carrying a child for nine months then going through over 20 hours of labor until I finally held her in my arms. I’m sure the oxytocin from nursing her delicate yet strong little body contributed to my overall mental health.

Thus, the tears I experienced came from a place of deep acknowledgment and embodiment of the mystifying, timeless beauty I was realizing. The miracle of life itself had been more fully revealed to me in ways cacao ceremonies, kundalini awakenings and shamanic rituals had given me a glimpse of.

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