La Cura

Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer of 30 plus years, Cara Page, join us to talk cultural memory and healing justice.   Cara is one of the architects of the healing justice political strategy, envisioned by many in the US South and deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and Southern Black Radical Traditions of the Global South. She is co-founder and current leadership team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective.  She is also the former ED of The Audre Lorde Project, and former National Coordinator of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment. You can learn more about her work at her, Changing Frequencies and Healing Histories on her webpage. Follow her on IG @changingfrequencies.  Learn more about the Kindred Healing Collective on their webpage.  La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!

Jahsun Fakolade Edmonds joins us to share about the spiritual roots of Capoeira and the martial art's connection to Black rebellion and liberation.  Fakokade is a Capoeira practitioner of 20 years.  He is also a Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills and a Babalawo, IFA Priest.   You can learn more about Fakolade on FB under Jahsun Edmonds and on IG under @oluwo_fakolade. Learn more about his IFA Temple, Idin Ka at idinkaaifatemple.com.    La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!

Rocio Navarro joins us for a beautiful conversation about the power of water as an element and tool for healing and rebirthing ourselves. Rocio is a healing artist that works intimately and creatively, with water. She is Vaginal Steam Hydrotherapist, Ceremonialist, Spiritual Counselor, Energy and Sound Healer with a Sociology degree/background. You can learn more about Rocio Navarro by going to her website rocionavarro.org and you can follow her on IG @water_healing.  La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!

Para nuestro segundo episodio de la temporada en español, nos acompaña Luis Colunga, persona no binaria, antirracista, terapeuta psicocorporal, psicólogo y sexólogo educador. Nos ilumina sobre como la sanación somática y emocional combinado con una perspectiva antirracista y social puede crear espacios de contención y acompañamiento, espacios para poder sentirlo todo. La Cura Podcast es un proyecto de Mijente. ¡SUSCRÍBETE, CALIFICA y escríbenos una reseña! ¡Comparte este episodio con otros! Síganos en IG en @lacurapodcast y @conmijente. Puede enviarnos un correo electrónico a lacurapodcast@gmail.com, ¡queremos saber de usted!  

Episodio en español Julia Laporte, practicante del Reiki por mas de 25 anos nos acompaña para iluminarnos sobre las raíces, filosofía y practica de esta modalidad de sanación que hoy es tan popular y muchas veces explotada. Puedes seguir a Julia en las redes sociales bajo Julie Laporte.  La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!

Kiani Conley-Wilson, is a grower, activist, and organizer based in Troy, NY. and Assistant Program Manager of the Soul Fire Farm join us.  Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. They raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of the ancestors, they work to reclaim their collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system.  Learn more about the Soul Fire Farm at soulfirefarm.org and follow them on IG at @soulfirefarm  La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!

Speaker, teacher trainer, Yoga culture advocate, and best-selling author Susanna Barkataki shares the roots of yoga and its tradition of social justice and liberation.  In the West, Yoga has been commodified, exploited and stripped from its earth based framework and practice. Susanna grounds us in the Yoga earth based philosophical essence and reminds us yoga is for all bodies to restore balance and connection to the elements.  Deepen your understanding and buy Susana Barkataki's book, Embrace Yoga's Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Practice. Learn more about Susanna Barkataki at SusannaBarkataki.com  Learn more about Susanna's Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute.    La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!

Gloria Lucas, Founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride joins us to talk about how the power of healing disorders can be found in deepening our understanding of the intersections of history, capitalism, oppression and trauma.  Her work has been featured in NPR, Teen Vogue, MTV,  Huffpost, Los Angeles Times, and Bitch Magazine.  You can learn more about Gloria and Nalgona Positivity Pride by visiting their platforms. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nalgonapositivitypride/ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NalgonaPositiveShop Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nalgonapositivepride Twitter: https://twitter.com/NalgonaPride Reach out at npppride@gmail.comw   La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us. Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @mijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!  

Dr. Neelam Pathikonda joins us to talk about the Covid19 Vaccine: the concerns, the questions and the myths.  Dr. Pathikonda is a family medicine osteopathic physician with a public health background working in South Los Angeles and was a community organizer for over a decade before medical school.   Please RATE us and SUBSCRIBE. Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @mijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!  

Mark-Anthony Johnson Kicks off Season 3 of La Cura Podcast!  As a licensed acupuncturist and experienced organizer, Mark-Anthony joins us to discuss what is health and who benefits from us being well enough. He invites us to look through a liberatory lens of wellness and names key elements in building a society that truly centers wellbeing.  Mark-Anthony Johnson is the Founder and Director of the Frontline Wellness Network, a network of health workers working to end the public health crisis of criminalization and incarceration.  You can learn more about Mark-Anthony at resilientstrategies.org. Follow him on twitter @FrntWellNetwork and on IG @frontlinewellnessnetwork La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente.  Follow us on Twitter and IG @conmijente. Please RATE us and SUBSCRIBE. Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast or @mijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!

Listen to our final episode of our Ofrendas series for Season two with these beautiful freedom fighter, healers, historians. They bring us a full episode of medicine through poetry, reflection and traditional remedios for our physical and spiritual nourishment.  Jesus Villa is a Phoenix based curandero and activist.   Dulce Juarez is a Phoenix based yoga practitioner, envirionmental justice organizer and traditional healer. You can follow her on IG @dulceperopicosa  Manuel Criollo is a scholar, historian and long time racial and economic justice organizer based in New Mexico. You can follow him on Twitter @redpipil Irlanda "Landis" Pulido is a long time activist and healer.  She currently lives in Los Angeles. You can follow her on IG at @landeh Xochitcoatl Bello is two spirit indigequeer feminista, brujita, abolitionista, mexica, angelina, artivist, birthkeeper, truthteller + plant mamá. She currently lives in Oregon.   Follow her on IG @lamalayerbalove and learn more about her work at http://www.lamalayerba.com/ Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally. PLEASE subscribe and rate us! You can follow us on IG @lacurapodcast and @conmijente

Beautiful conversation with, long time bodyworker, healing justice practitioner, activist Susan Raffo on collective care, tending to ourselves and meaning making in this global pandemic moment.  Based in Minnesota, Susan works towards ending the medical industrial complex and lifts up practices and traditions that have been co-opted or forced into disappearance.  She is fiercely committed to the work of ending white supremacy systems, cultural and somatics change.  You can learn more about her work and read here powerful blogs at https://www.susanraffo.com/ Please RATE us and SUBSCRIBE. Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast or @mijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!

Mariella Saba shares a breathing practice to release the fear and anxiety energy stored in our bodies and attract the vibrations of joy, love, aliveness and liberation.   Mariella who has her roots from Palestine to Mexico currently resides in Los Angeles where she founded and currently helps lead Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement.   Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together.   PLEASE subscribe and rate us! You can follow us on IG @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. We would love to hear from you, please email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com with any questions, suggestions and/or feedback.

In this Episode of La Cura, long time friends Marisa Franco, Director of Mijente and Francisca Porchas Coronado La Cura Podcast host and producer have a spiritual and political conversation about the impact of colonization, the role of shame, how pride plays out from a non-Black Latinx perspective, empathy as an antidote, and where to begin in building pro-Blackness.  Follow Marisa Franco on Twitter and Mijente on Twitter and IG Follow La Cura Podcast on IG Follow Francisca Porchas Coronado on Twitter Please RATE us and SUBSCRIBE. Share this episode with others! You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you! 

Bianca Gragg, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, community member and revolutionary mother shares with us a reflection and short contemplative practice for parents and all those who are currently taking care of children during this time of quarantine.  Whether you are a parent or know parents or caretakers who need support share this beautiful offering with them.  Born and raised in the border city of El Paso Texas and now residing in North Carolina, Bianca is deeply invested in supporting the healing of others in the community as well as her own healing, recognizing their interconnection. Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally. PLEASE subscribe and rate us! You can follow us on IG @lacurapodcast and @conmijente  

Healing By Choice! Joins us from Detroit, Michigan and they bring all the wisdom and nourishment you didn't know you needed.  Adela Nieves Martinez, Marcia Lee and Amanda Hill, all members and healing arts practitioners share their story and their spiritual perspective on this moment, their take on collective care and what this pandemic moment is asking of us all.  Healing by choice! is a circle of women and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Health and Healing Practitioners, based in Detroit. They offer a range of healing modalities for self and community care for the reduction of racial harm in mind, body, spirit and institution. You can learn more about Healing By Choice by visiting https://www.healingbychoicedetroit.com/. You can follow them on IG at @healingbychoice.  You can find  Please RATE us and SUBSCRIBE. Share this episode with others! Follow us at @lacurapodcast or @mijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you! 

Adilia Torres, shares with permission a sacred song that came to a fellow healer through prayer. Listen, sign it as a healing balm for yourself and sign it in community for others to receive its powerful nourishment. This medicine song is a healing balm shared to you with love and for the healing of our communities.  Adilia Torres is a queer Chicana-Indigena from Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico. Her practice as a community mental health clinician is centered in cultural and spiritual attunement and indigenous medicine. Adilia is the founder of La Botanica Azul--a sustainable space for ancestral practices and exchanges of knowledge rooted in increasing access to healing and liberation. You can find her on IG @la_botanica_azul. Check out La Botanica Azule on Facebook! Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which features community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this moment of pandemic and uprising! Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE to our pod! Find us on IG @lacurapodcast @conmijente  

Erica Woodland talks to us about his pioneering and breakthrough Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color. Erica's work specifically acknowledges the harm and violence perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex and actively works to both intervene directly on this system as well as create new systems of care for our communities. We discuss reclaiming resilience as a practice that involves fighting for justice and the practice of healing justice as part of a long ancestral legacy that can guide us in our work and healing.  You can find out more about NQTTCN at https://www.nqttcn.com/. Follow it on IG at @nqttcn.  You can reach and learn more about Erica Woodland at https://www.ericawoodland.com/.  You can follow him on IG at @ebmore1.  Please share this episode with others! Follow us at @lacurapodcast or @mijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!      ​

Veralucia Mendoza, Mijente member, Queer Afro-Indigenous migrant from the deserts of Peru and one of the main organizers and founders of the amazing Mutual Aid efforts in Toledo, Ohio. She joins us to talk about the history of mutual aid, its current invaluable practice during Covid times and centers a decolonizing frame and practice of it.  Veralucia is committed to practicing Ancestral Futurism-imagining and creating better futures based on ancestral power, including our ancestors in the movement. This practice calls her to community organizing and disrupting culture.  You can follow Veralucia Mendoza on IG at @cala_verita, check out her TadX Toledo Toledo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSmjxqRh0b8.  Follow and support Mutual Aid in Toledo on FB at Mutual Aid Toledo/Apoyo Mutuo Toledo.  Please share this practice with others!  This episode is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally. Follow us at @lacurapodcast or email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!     

BONUS Episode for Mother's Day.  Friends Carla Gonzales and Francisca Porchas Coronado engage in a funny, introspective and insightful conversation about being mothered by Latinx migrant mamas and how that translates into who they are today, especially as mamas themselves, the highs, the lows, and the funny moments.  Happy Mother's Day 2020! PLEASE RATE OUR PODCAST AND SUBSCRIBE! Share this episode with your friends. Follow us on IG @lacurapodcast and @mijente    

Aida Manduley shares their wisdom as a therapist and educator on the nuances of anxiety, depression, and grief normalizing our feelings and encouraging our curiosity about them.  Listen for the simple and valuable tools that they share on how best to tend to ourselves now and beyond this pandemic moment. Aida Manduley, Licensed Clinical Social Worker is an award-winning boriqueer activist, therapist, and educator known for big earrings and building bridges. At the core of Aida's work is a strong set of anti-oppressive values, an insatiable curiosity for others' perspectives, and a love of tackling taboos.  Learn more about Aida at aidamanduley.com and follow them on IG @aidamanduley    

Luana Morales shares a grounding mediation and reflection practice with us this week! Luana is a Birth and Bereavement Doula, Death Midwife, Circle keeper, Officiant, Reiki Master Teacher, and Herbal Apprentice devoted to reclaiming our birth, death, and Afro-Indigenous healing practices.  She is one of the founders of Seeds of Our Ancestors, a mobile interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and multi lineage healing squad. Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally.   Learn more about Luana at https://www.handsofgaiareiki.com/

Listen to this special episode on the Mijente and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement's new report "The Impact of Covid-19 On Latinos in the U.S.". We're dying disproportionately and bearing the brunt of this crisis. It is critical we tell our stories! Listen to how we are organizing for the SOLUTIONS that we need.     Sign up here to see the report: mijente.net/covid19pc Follow @LCLAA and @conmijente on twitter and IG. Please rate La Cura Podcast, subscribe and share with others!

Dr. Monika L. Son gifts us a courage and compassion meditation for this week's Ofrenda. A native New York Afro-Dominicana born to immigrant parents, educator/scholar/healer/activist,  Monika actively integrates healing into teaching and learning spaces in higher education, particularly for BIPOC communities. Her passion lies in  building and growing transformative curriculum for students, faculty and educators through an embodied, anti-oppressive and inclusive, trauma informed, social justice lens. Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally. Follow us at @lacurapodcast or email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you! 

Listen to the Resilient Strategies team--Mark-Anthony Jonhnson, Prentis Hemphill and Francisca Porchas Coronado, host of La Cura Podcast on Politicized Healing and what it can offer us in this moment of Covid19 and beyond to heal and build power in the way that we need to. Resilient Strategies is healing justice project transforming the impact of state violence on our bodies, our behaviors and the organizations we build as a critical part of liberation.  To learn more about Prentis Hemphill you can visit their website at prentishemphill.com and you can follow them on IG @prentis.h and you can follow Mark-Anthony Johnson on twitter @FlyEgret.  Follow La Cura Podcast on IG @lacurapodcast and Mijente @conmijente. Please rate, subscribe and share our pod!     

Muertero Yamil is a Pennsylvania based health worker on the frontlines of the Covid19 pandemic. He shares with us his grounding spiritual practice of the past 27 years and especially now as he navigates care giving for so many battling illness daily.    Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing how their grounding practices and rituals in this moment with us all as a way of building resisilience together in this challenging moment globally.   Please share this practice, subscribe to our podcast and rate it! Follow us on IG @lacurapodcast  

Dr. Diana Quinn Inla'kech shares holistic and traditional recipes and the healing power of plants for immune and spiritual support generously shared to her by two Curadera friends especially for this offering on La Cura.  This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing how they are grounding spiritually and physically in this moment with us all as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally.  Check out Dr. Quinn Inla'kech's blog on the recipes at https://www.drdianaquinn.com/blog 

Kicking off our Community Care Series with Dr. Diana Quinn Inlak'ech who educates and grounds us on a holistic view of how to take care of our system and each other. Diana Inlak'ech, ND is a licensed naturopathic doctor at the intersection of social justice, spirituality and healing. Specializing in somatic bodywork, integrative mental health, and decolonized healing modalities within a politicized framework. You can access her blog Holistic Support for Immunity and Viral Prevention at https://www.drdianaquinn.com/blog Please rate and subscribe to La Cura! You can follow us at @lacurapodcast on IG.

Award winning HIV activist and artist, Louie A. Ortiz-Fonseca joins us to share about the creation of The Gran Varones Project, which uses storytelling to elevate the stories of Latinx & Afro-Latinx Gay, Queer, Trans, Bisexual Men & Bois and his hit Youtube show Kikis with Louie!   Check out @GranVarones on Instagram and Tumbler and Kikis with Louie on Youtube.       

Belia Mayeno Saavedra returns for the second part of our conversation on Conflict and Transformation. She takes us deeper into the intersection between conflict, vulnerability, shame and accountability. She answers questions by Mijente members on setting boundaries with family, moving past toxic chapters in our lives and building self-awareness. Please subscribe, rate our podcast and leave a comment on your favorite episodes!  

A politicized somatics and restorative justice practitioner, a tarot reader of 25 years and an initiate into the Orisha Oshun, Belia Saavedra Mayeno brings us her deep wisdom on what conflict is and how we relate to it making connections to shame, belonging, safety and dignity.  Belia references Generative Somatics in this episode. You can learn more at generativesomatics.org        

Season 1: Lourdes Hernandez Rivera nos cuenta sobre los esfuerzos de sanación a través de su proyecto Caminando La Utopía y muchos más por toda la Isla de Puerto Rico dado la devastación de los terremotos recientes y el huracán Maria de hace dos años.  Con miles de personas desposeídas por la Isla, ella es una lider y sanadora entre muchos mas, creando conciencia política y resiliencia emocional y física a miles de ellos.   Si deseas saber mas de los esfuerzos de Caminando La Utopía por favor sigue en IG @caminandolaeutopia y POR FAVOR contribuye al proyecto! *****English**** Lourdes Hernandez Rivera tells us about her healing work efforts through her project Caminando La Utopia and many others throughout the Island of Puerto Rico given the aftermath of the recent earthquakes and Hurricane Maria two years ago.  With thousands of people finding themselves without homes, she is a leader and healer among many others creating political consciousness and emotional and physical resilience to thousands of them.  Follow her project Caminando La Utopia on IG at @CaminandolaUtopia and PLEASE contribute!       

Season 1: Esta es la Segunda Parte de la conversación con Mimi Salvador sobre la política de su territorio en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana, la cosmovisión de su gente y la medicina.  En este capítulo Mimi nos comparte su pensamiento sobre el Ayahuasca que viene de la cosmología de su gente y el hecho de que ahora esta siendo usado por estadounidenses y europeos fuera y dentro del territorio. Siganos en Instagram @lacurapodcast y envíenos un correo electrónico a lacurapodcast@gmail.com para compartir su sentir sobre este capitulos y capitulos pasados o visiten nuestra pagina de web lacurapodcast.com.

Season 1:  La Cura's FIRST episode in Spanish! Este es el primer episodio de La Cura en español! Esta es la primera parte de una conversación de dos partes con Mimi Salvador Lucero, joven Kichwa de la área de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana.  Mimi nos comparte sobre su comunidad de su pueblo originario indígena, Kichwa, su Cosmovisión, la lucha política y espiritual por su territorio y el futuro del planeta en acuerdo a su tradición.    La Cura Espisodes are out every other Sunday. Subscribe! Check us out at LaCuraPodcast.com and follow us on Instagram @lacurapodcast.  Follow Mimi's collective on Instagram @healinginresistance

In conversation with Boston based Boricua and Death Midwife, Luana Morales we explore our relationship to death spiritually and emotionally, the influence of the medical industrial complex on our self-determination after death, and that of our beloveds, and the funeral industry's elitist history. Luana will tell us what her powerful work of death midwifery entails and how to make the best choices around our transition and that of our loved ones. 

Ancestors are complicated.  Some of them we knew, loved immensely, and miss daily. Others we knew and their memory causes pain, and we hope to never repeat their mistakes again in the world.  Either way, they inevitably live in us and in our families' costumbres, personalities and behaviors.  Should we honor and elevate them all irregardless of their character? If so, how?  In this episode, we speak to Jose Rodriguez, "Agboola" about his ancient West African spiritual tradition of Ifá--which has made its way to every corner of Latin America from Chile to Colombia, Brazil to Cuba--and about what it means to praise the ancestors. We talk about why it is profoundly important, not only for their spirits, but for our own character, elevation and evolution here in the world as individuals and as a collective.

The world might disagree on a lot. One thing is for sure--we all love food! From filling up our bellies with our delicious traditional dishes to treating our corazoncitos, physical pains, and illnesses with our ancestral ingredients, food is central to who we are and what we do. In this episode we are in conversation about the energetic and nourshing healing capacity of food with Julio Medoza, Chef and owner of The Ital Trap, a mobile and pop-up food concept that specializes in tropical plan-centric cuisine and Chef Maria Parra Cano, owner and mami-prenuer of Sana Sana Foods, a plant based movement aimed at healing our community through food.

We use the essences of flowers in many forms as a people, from our abuelita's manzanilla teas to the curadera's esencias floridas also known as tinctures, flowers have served our bodies and hearts for generations.  In this episode we converse with Flower Doctor, Organizer and Masters In Family Therapy, Guadalupe Rocio Chavez about her path as a Flower Essence Healer in Los Angeles tending to formally incarcerated people and their families through the healing power of flowers.  She will teach us about transforming grief, anger, melancholy and restoring a sense of connection through the power of "plantitas". 

Increasingly, Latinx people are more open and actively seeking counseling and therapy as a source of healing. At the same time, many in our familias still believe it is only for the "locos" or the "blancos", but the root of this belief is not unfounded. The history of psychology has been used as a tool of white supremacy for centuries. We will talk to Cristalis Capielo Rosario, Ph.D and Professor at Arizona State University about her journey and her culture shock after moving from the island of Puerto Rico to the U.S. South, loving psychology while still navigating racism and sexism as a student, and her passion to create culturally grounded theory and practice in the field. Also listen to great advice form Dr. Capielo Rosario on what to look for in a therapist and how to best exercise your own agency!

Let's talk healing! Healing is a word that is becoming increasingly popular, but what does it really mean for so many of us in the Latinx community? In this episode, spiritual and political leaders Manuela Arciniegas y Manuel Criollo engage in the polemic about what we are healing from, and what awaits us on the other side of transformation. Our traditional healing practices have been critical to our own survival and continued presence as Latinx people.  We will converse about how our culture, traditions, stories, and remedios continue to sustain us and nourish us even in the midst of all the world's brokenness and despair.  

Introducing La Cura Podcast by Mijente in collaboration with Resilient Strategies. Hosted by Francisca Porchas Coronado.   La Cura will take you on a journey that centers Latinx healing and wellbeing.  We will explore what healing is, the possibilities for for it, and engage in conversation with thought leaders, historians, spiritual sages, trauma informed healers, traditional and western medicine practitioners and many more.