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Don’t hide your feelings🐘💙Spend time with people you love this summer; Go to the game, eat the Cracker Jacks, & soak up ...
06/14/2026

Don’t hide your feelings🐘💙
Spend time with people you love this summer; Go to the game, eat the Cracker Jacks, & soak up the sunshine.
Mental health thrives in moments like these, too ☀️⚾️🍿

Recently when I’ve told people that I attended my first concert THIS SUMMER, they’re usually surprised. They first assum...
06/05/2026

Recently when I’ve told people that I attended my first concert THIS SUMMER, they’re usually surprised. They first assume I must hate music. Truthfully, my brother and I have LOVED music our entire lives.

Growing up, my dad became disabled when I was three years old. Like many families navigating disability, money went toward necessities, medical bills, and making sure everyone had what they needed. Concerts weren’t really part of the equation. But music was, and it surrounded our lives growing up😉

My brother and I are both neurodivergent, and music became so much more than entertainment. It gave us confidence, comfort, expression, and a place to belong. We learned every lyric, performed on different stages, sang in every car ride, and found pieces of ourselves in the artists we loved.

One of those artists was Bruno Mars ♥️ ( ) So sitting beside my brother this summer, singing along to songs we’ve known for years, felt bigger than a concert.

It felt like a reminder that life doesn’t have to happen on anyone else’s timeline to be meaningful.

It also felt incredibly special hearing so many Spanish songs and Latino influences woven throughout the night. As a Mexican-American woman, there was something beautiful about seeing different pieces of my identity reflected in a space that already meant so much to me.

A lot of us spend time feeling “behind” because our lives don’t look the way we expected.

But sometimes what looks like being behind is actually taking a different path.

And sometimes confidence grows when you look around and realize you’re no longer watching from a distance…You’re finally in the room. ❤️🎶

I got to be a hair-model for , founder of during while she demonstrated a textured, curly-cut on my hair in front of ...
04/20/2026

I got to be a hair-model for , founder of during while she demonstrated a textured, curly-cut on my hair in front of an audience.

As a mental health therapist, I spend a lot of time talking about confidence, self-image, and the pressure people feel to make themselves “easier” for others to “deal with”.

A lot of people with textured hair (including myself) grow up learning to fight their hair before they ever really learn how to care for it. We flatten it, hide it, throw it up, over-control it, or convince ourselves our hair is the problem.

We as people often do that in other areas of our lives.
We become so focused on making ourselves easier, smaller, quieter, or more digestible for others that we forget to ask ourselves, “What would happen if I just had the right support instead?”.

Janine did not look at my hair like it was a difficult mess. She talked about my curls as if each on hair its own personality, life, and beauty in every turn.

There is something really powerful about being seen and accepted by others in that way.

Confidence isn’t built by becoming someone else, although we often wish it were that simple. Confidence blossoms and flourishes when the right people, tools/resources, experiences, and/or environment helps you see yourself in a new perspective.

I got to be a hair-model for , founder of during while she demonstrated a textured, curly-cut on my hair in front of a...
04/20/2026

I got to be a hair-model for , founder of during while she demonstrated a textured, curly-cut on my hair in front of an audience.

As a mental health therapist, I spend a lot of time talking about confidence, self-image, and the pressure people feel to make themselves “easier” for others to “deal with”.

A lot of people with textured hair (including myself) grow up learning to fight their hair before they ever really learn how to care for it. We flatten it, hide it, throw it up, over-control it, or convince ourselves our hair is the problem.

We as people often do that in other areas of our lives.
We become so focused on making ourselves easier, smaller, quieter, or more digestible for others that we forget to ask ourselves, “What would happen if I just had the right support instead?”.

Janine did not look at my hair like it was a difficult mess. She talked about my curls as if each on hair its own personality, life, and beauty in every turn.

There is something really powerful about being seen and accepted by others in that way.

Confidence isn’t built by becoming someone else, although we often wish it were that simple. Confidence blossoms and flourishes when the right people, tools/resources, experiences, and/or environment helps you see yourself in a new perspective.

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