CONFETTI ALL AROUND

Send us Fan Mail Get your favorite comfort food and a tissue because this episode will open up your heart chakra and your appetite! Cari Garcia wear many hats, she is a mom, a licensed clinical social worker, a food blogger, photography, trained chef and creative! Cari left her social work career in the pandemic to full step into her love for food, family and connection! Cari shares her journey fr...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is so rich and loving it has me smiling from ear to ear. Camara explains her process of work, creativity and following her intuition. While doll making has become a craft that feels good, she honors her ancestors and her own inner wisdom with doll making and being in relationship with her ancestors. This conversation is really special.  Camara Meri Rajabari (she/her)...

Send us Fan Mail This episode welcomes Angelica "Gel" Sievers of Sievers Wellness. Gel has stepped into her ancestral knowing by returning to "body first healing" and making time in her life for slowness, creativity and connecting through love. Gel and Cynthia get real on the growing pains while moving through scarcity and receiving abundantly. Gel explains healing starting at...

Send us Fan Mail Pearmama comes in with vulnerability and inner child creativity! Cynthia sits with Pearmama as she shares the rituals she has for honoring and creating the realms and dreams she has visited. Denise has a stunning mural at the Riverside Public Library, the murals were created by a vision and represent the indigenous peoples of this area: Tongva, people of the Earth; Luiseño, people...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1. Sofia is our guest and amiga on the podcast this week. By the time you are listening Cynthia and Sofia will probably be in Puerto Rico enjoying an ancestral retreat. This is a 3 part episode that will chronicle Cynthia and Sofia's trip to Puerto Rico  with more depth and reflections that can be contained in one pod episode. This episode is a sweet glimpse into how thi...

Send us Fan Mail Nikolai and Cyn have been IG friends for the last 2 years and what a beautiful ride it has been. Cynthia has learned so much about centering the home with love and connection through Nikolai's work and her example in friendship. This is a friendly conversation that is impactful and expansive. Nikolai gives her favorite tips for centering connection with your child this summer...

Send us Fan Mail This is a mini bonus episode. Cynthia talks about vulnerability as the center of connection and safety. Cynthia reflects on Marianismo and the inner work of creating safety through vulnerability and self compassion. It ain't easy work but we are deserving of it. 

Send us Fan Mail Xochitl Brizuela is our guest this week and she is a rainbow after a storm. Xochitl and Cynthia share vulnerably about the importance our inner child play and repair. Xochitl has been living in her purpose by creating spaces for children and their parents to play and imagine their expansive futures in the now.  Xochitl is a Latina womyn. She was born in Mexico and was brought to t...

Send us Fan Mail Maria Lemus-Maldonado is this week's guest and we are geeking out! Maria and Cynthia met when Maria joined one of Cynthia's first pilot Re-Parenting My Inner Child Virtual Groups in 2022. Since then, Maria has been in more spaces and a spiritual comadreship has grown. Maria's vulnerability and brujita wisdom is what we need more of in friendships and Confetti All Ar...

Send us Fan Mail Veronica is the wise ancestor energy we have been calling for. She is a joy defender and a creative ancestor in training. Cynthia and Veronica talk about what it means to walk in their living purpose as a future ancestor.  Veronica Agard (Ifáṣadùn Fásanmí) (she/her) is a poet, writer, community educator, and connector at the intersections of Black identity, wellness, representatio...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Rosa Shetty, LCSW about inner child work in practical and creative ways. Cynthia and Rosa share their journey bonding with their own inner child while honoring their own children. Rosa’s story of re-parenting herself during moments of grief and celebration and the inner wisdom she has gained through this journey. Walk in joy with us! Rosa Shetty, LCSW is...

Send us Fan Mail Cynthia reflects on how resentment can serve as an invitation to reassess values and make boundaries.  May is mental health month and everyday your mental health matters.  You are not alone, reach out to a friend or a safe person. You’re here and that matters. Find a therapist at latinxtherapy.com

Send us Fan Mail Cynthia and Irisneri talk about  how leaving another life behind to live in their purpose has become a deep life's work. Irisneri shares stories of her love of Puerto Rico, and how she always remembers feeling "Puerto Rico means freedom to me," and how this calling for la isla is still with her and pours into her work with clients looking to uncover old family secre...

Send us Fan Mail Have you read the book The Pain we Carry Healing From Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Gutierrez, LMFT? If you haven't, take a listen to the episode and find yourself making space in your heart to come back home to your story and your legacy. This conversation is not just an intimate talk between two Latina Therapists, but it's a conversation of a homecoming i...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Christy Fredrick who went back to school in the pandemic to pursue a degree in Chicano Studies and found community and compassion for her lineage and her journey. Christy shares her experience growing up in an evangelical home and the pressure to assimilate as a Brown girl in a white church. Christy and Cynthia talk about breaking generational patterns a...

Send us Fan Mail Cynthia talks about Inner Child work by explaining theories, the brain science and polyvagal toning, and she shares how re-parenting her inner child has helped her relationships and bandwidth for stillness and joy.  Cynthia makes her keynote pitch as to how "Healing Your Inner Child" is not only "doing the work" but most profoundly, it is Inter-generational hea...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Hope Carpenter who has so many reshares on social media for her powerfully relatable memes on her instagram account HopeHealingArts. With 190k followers within this last year, Cynthia asks Hope how she protects her own inner child from the success and struggles of social media popularity and how she creates her poetic affirmations. Hope and Cynthia talk...

Send us Fan Mail Robin Cortez episode 2    “Girls Just Wanna Have Boundaries” In today's episode we talk to a friend Cynthia met in preschool, well, they met as moms to preschoolers. When Cynthia met Robin she was literally in the sandbox and since then they have found comfort in their talks that are vulnerable and brave AF. Robin and Cynthia talk about moving out of their people pleaser era...

Send us Fan Mail Episode1: Meet Cynthia  Confetti All Around was an idea that Cynthia had while deep in postpartum depression and when most things seemed gray and blurry, her toddler’s excitement and joy seemed to be the color in the room. Cynthia found herself missing the companionship of podcasts and imagined a collection of guests she would have if she did do this podcast thing she once mocked....