Ay Mijita ✨ Embrace your raíces. Reclaim your esencia.
Ay Mijita is the podcast for first-generation Latinas who are ready to break generational cycles, heal emotional wounds, and reclaim their voice, power, and identity.
Hosted by Dora Alicia Praxedis, intuitive healer, life coach, and spiritual guide, this show dives deep into the real conversations we were never taught to have growing up.
From generational trauma, boundaries, and emotional healing… to spirituality, intuition, astrology, and ancestral practices like limpias — this is where cultura meets transformation.
If you’ve ever felt like:
✨ “I’m tired of carrying everything”
✨ “Why do I feel responsible for everyone?”
✨ “I don’t even know who I am anymore”
✨ “I want to heal, but I don’t know where to start”
You’re in the right place.
This podcast will help you:
💫 Set boundaries without guilt
💫 Heal inner child and emotional wounds
💫 Reconnect with your intuition
💫 Break free from survival mode
💫 Step into your most authentic, empowered self
New episodes every Thursday.
Embrace your raíces. Reclaim your esencia.
Break the cycles you were born into.
Episodes
56 episodes
What If Healing Requires Celebration
Chemo ending is supposed to feel like a clean finish line, but what happens when your body is still nauseous, your energy is gone, and your mind keeps whispering “what if it comes back?” I’m sharing a milestone I didn’t know how I’d reach: I’m ...
Limpias, Energy, and Releasing What Isn’t Yours
That “heavy for no reason” feeling can be the loudest clue that you’re carrying energy that never belonged to you. We slow down together, take a real breath, and get honest about how stress can lodge in the body as tightness, racing thoughts, e...
When Anxiety Gets Loud
Anxiety doesn’t always make sense. Sometimes life looks “fine” on paper, but your body feels like it’s bracing for impact. I recorded this one even though I wanted to avoid it, because saying it out loud makes it real: anxiety has been loud in ...
Worth Is Not A Number
Money anxiety can feel like a tight chest, a racing mind, and that familiar thought loop of “what if there’s not enough.” I get real about how quickly taxes, bills, and budgeting can trigger old self-worth wounds, especially when your body has ...
Rejoice In The Dip
Something shifts when life stops letting you rush. I’m in week 15 of chemotherapy, and I wanted to sit down with you and tell the truth about what this season feels like when you’re doing your best and still feel tired in every sense of the wor...
The Relationship Truth You Can't Ignore Anymore
The full moon in Libra doesn’t just ask whether your relationships look balanced. It asks whether they truly are. If you’ve been emotional, extra sensitive, or quietly resentful, there’s a reason: Libra energy can expose the places where harmon...
A Rebirth You Can Feel
A new podcast cover can be a cute refresh. Mine is a line in the sand. This bonus episode is personal, raw, and honestly a little sacred: I’m sharing what’s underneath my rebrand and why it feels like a rebirth. Chemo has changed m...
When Your Gifts Get Loud: Embracing Intuitive Activation
In this heartfelt episode of Ay Mijita, Dora Alicia dives deep into the experience of intuitive activation, exploring what happens when your spiritual gifts begin to surface. If you're a first-generation Mexican woman navigating ancestra...
Pisces New Moon Reset
🔮 WANT A PERSONALIZED NEW MOON READING 👉🏽 SIGN UP HERE: https://www.dorapraxedis.com/readingThe Pisces new moon can feel like a wave that pulls up everything you thought you alread...
Loving Someone Who Won’t Heal: Gaslighting, Stonewalling & Emotional Unavailability
If you’ve ever walked away from a hard conversation feeling dizzy, guilty, and unsure what even happened, you’re not imagining it. We get real about emotional unavailability and the patterns that make love feel like a constant test: shutting do...
Naming The Wounds We Carry From Home
What if love taught you to hide your feelings? We open a gentle, unflinching conversation about shame that didn’t come from strangers, but from the people who fed us, raised us, and wanted us safe. As first-gen daughters, many of us learned to ...
What If You Acted Like You’re Already Abundant
What if the season you’re in isn’t breaking you, but refining you? We open up about eclipse energy that turned the spotlight inward, pairing it with the raw reality of premenopause, chemo fatigue, and the kind of shadow work you can’t out-hustl...
How To Make Aligned New Moon Wishes During An Aquarius Eclipse
The sky just handed us a karmic reset, and it’s not subtle. We dive into the Aquarius new moon eclipse as a pressure test for identity, community, and truth—where timelines close, roles shed, and aligned intentions take center stage. Aquarius e...
Grieving The Old Self While Healing Through Chemo
Some days grit looks like not closing the laptop—other days it looks like closing it sooner and letting yourself cry. I’m seven weeks into chemo and I wanted to wait until I felt stronger to talk, but that old rule kept me hiding. So I’m bringi...
From Punta Cana To Chicago: Choosing Ease, Healing, And Intentional Rest
The first breath back in Chicago stung a little—cold air, dry throat, layers on layers—and that jolt made the real lesson click: rest away is easy, but rest at home is a decision. I’m sharing what this week in Punta Cana unlocked for my body an...
The Cost Of Doing It Alone
What if the strength you’re most proud of is also what’s wearing you down? We go straight to the heart of hyper-independence—the kind that looks powerful on the outside but quietly drains your nervous system, your money, and your joy. Through p...
Rest, Recover, Return Next Week
Some weeks demand a softer voice and a slower pace. This is one of those weeks. I’m sharing a short, sincere update about my health, a lost voice, and what recovery looks like while moving through chemotherapy. Rather than push through and deli...
Feeling Behind in Life? This Is What Healing Actually Looks Like
What if your life isn’t late, but precisely on time? We open a tender conversation about the myth of “falling behind” and trace it back to unequal starting lines, survival roles, and nervous systems trained by urgency. Through stories of hustle...
Breaking The Habit Of Hyperindependence
What if the strength that kept you safe is the same wall blocking the support you crave? We open up about why receiving help can feel dangerous for many first‑gen Latinas, tracing the roots from migration and poverty to language barriers, racis...
Crossing the Year Gently - Honoring Quiet Power
Download Here: Crossing the Year Gently, MijitaStart the year softer, not louder. After a season marked by grief, health scares, and relationship strain, we’re choosing integratio...
How To Honor Loss Without Performing Through The Holidays
The holidays can be beautiful—and brutal. We open our hearts to the truth that celebrations don’t create grief; they reveal it. From empty chairs to evolving traditions, we talk candidly about what it feels like when love has no easy place to l...
Honoring Human Design, Rest, And Becoming
Free Download: Birthday + Human Design RitualWhat if a birthday wasn’t a report card but a ritual of return? We take a gentle pause to honor another year of survival a...
When Life Gets Chaotic — How to Emotionally Regulate, Ground, and Recenter Yourself
When life feels louder than your heartbeat, the body starts speaking for you—tight chest, spiraling thoughts, numbness, or sudden tears. We created this conversation for the first-gen daughter, the mom, the partner, the healer who holds it all ...
Gaslighting Isn’t A Love Language, Mijita
What if your body has been telling the truth the whole time? We unpack how love gets tangled with self-abandonment when someone you care about shows narcissistic traits, and we walk step by step through the signals, scripts, and support that he...
Navigating Setbacks, Rebirth & the Cold Supermoon
The hardest seasons don’t just take things from us; they ask who we’re becoming. I’m sharing a raw, heart-forward look at navigating setbacks during the cold supermoon, from slow surgical healing and a shifting chemo timeline to money wounds th...