CONFETTI ALL AROUND
Rooted in Reflection presents Confetti All Around, a podcast that provides an intimate space for vulnerability, inner child joy and ancestral energy to co-exist and give generously to others listening for the comfort and the cuentos. Confetti All Around is intimate and brave. It's compassionate and timely. We are pulling back the veil on all the work behind the scenes of coming to this part of our lives where we can celebrate and rejoice from the roots to the fruits!Mission:On Confetti All Around we hold space for the celebration of our success and the mess after the party's over. We dive into vulnerability to share a moment in our lives we thought we did not have direction or felt utterly defeated and the lessons learned from them to get to where we are now. We center self compassion, creativity and intergenerational healing. Host:Confetti All Around is hosted by Chicana Therapist Cynthia Perez, LCSW who has worked in the field of Los Angeles, CA for 15 years as a social worker in schools, homes and hospitals and realized what everyone wants is connection and a good story. Cynthia interviews friends, mentors and cycle breakers.
*This podcast is not therapy.
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CONFETTI ALL AROUND
S05-E11: "My Marianismo Muse: La Vida de Mi Mamá pt.1" with guest Aurora Alonzo
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In this heartfelt episode, Cynthia and her mother Aurora share stories of family history, cultural roots, struggles, and resilience. From childhood memories to ancestral lineage and lessons learned through life's hardships, their conversation offers a powerful reflection on identity and legacy. Aurora is not only a woman who lived a life of trying to be a "good daughter and wife," as she saw her mother strive for that, she was also resilient and had the capacity to grow even later in life. Aurora has been Cynthia´s Marianismo Muse since the womb. While Cynthia´s marianismo journey started off with annoyance and anger at her mother´s marianismo, through understanding the colonial complexities of her mother´s childhood and legacy burdens, Cynthia has realized that her mother completed her own intergenerational healing. By the time you hear this episode Aurora has probably taken her last breath and transitioned to be in rest. She developed a holistic liver disease that she was genetically predisposed to that was activated by a life of constant toxic stress. Her unresolved trauma and marianismo sacrifices (legacy burdens) caused her to suffer physical illness. In the next two episodes Aurora shares the story of her life to remind us that underneath the marianismo is a woman who is deeply devoted to her legacy. In the last year of her life Aurora showed her children her true self. She unburdened herself from perfectionism and shame and allowed Cynthia and her family to love-on and help her. She loved herself at 72 years old and lived in peace for the last year of her life. She left Cynthia with a gift of completing her own purpose here, being the center of Cynthia´s research for collective compassion and intergenerational healing, and being a Marianismo Muse . Thank you Aurora Alonzo, please rest in peace. We love you.
