It was súper cool to be contacted by Karen Garcia, a reporter for The L.A. Times, in early April to contribute to an article on inner child healing. Karen shared with me she’s been working on a series discussing mental health within the Latinx community in Southern California: Familia, let’s talk about nuestra salud mental. The article she invited me to contribute to is based on an interview with Vianney Harelly, a poet, who shares her inner child healing journey on Instagram and TikTok. I feel grateful and honored to share my thoughts on what this difficult and painful journey may look like for some of us. We are all unique and there are threads that tie us together. One of those threads is our desire to feel loved, safe, and seen.

Without further ado: For Dia del Niño, how Latinos can start healing their inner child

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