This training/seminar for Xicanx/Latine therapists is currently being cultivated and nourished as I post.
What you will receive….
👣Collectively grieve the harms of indoctrination, colonial violence, racial caste systems, cultural erasure, and enforced assimilation.
🔥Name and tend grief related to internalized ideologies of supremacy, colorism, anti-Indigeneity, and anti-Blackness.
🌿Practice rituals and reflections that invite ancestral listening and lineage repair and identify how grief lives in the body across generations.
🤎Practice Grief Tending rooted in community wisdom, reconnecting with Indigenous, land-based, and spiritual grief practices.
Registration opens soon!
Introducing our new Corazon Counseling Logo!
I remember 11 years ago hiking through Sycamore Canyon and getting downloads of names and images for the logo of my counseling practice. It was such an exciting time and also very scary. There were not many folks doing what I was about to embark on, and I had very little guidance. Except for that of my ancestors, I am proud of how far I've come on this journey and feel blessed by all the beautiful corazones that have touched my corazon along the way.
This new logo represents the interweaving threads of healing through cultura and ancestral practices, something that I have incorporated since the beginning of my career as a mental health therapist and healing arts cultural practitioner.
This is part of a leveling up Corazon Counseling will be doing for this new coming year. We are excited to share many more upcoming changes.
I promise our offerings will remain rooted in corazon no matter what.
Gracias @zineswithsol
For co-creating this design with me.🤎
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I can’t have any distractions during this important phase of retreat planning. This work is to sacred to rush through or dilute.
I am entering a portal.
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If you need to communicate with me please reach out via email [email protected]
Introducing you to the retreat team!
This retreat would not be possible without the support of my comadritas y colegas Maria y Marisol! Thank you for trusting me and saying yes to this invitation.
We are 10 days away from our grief tending retreat and I am so honored to be co-creating this very special safe and sacred container for my fellow mental health therapists.
There is so much grief that we carry and not enough spaces and people that can hold the complexities of our realities as Xicanx/Latine therapists. I have made it my mission to change that.
We are at capacity for this years retreat but if interested for next year check out the waitlist on our bio linktree.
Repost- @therapist.to.therapists
Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mommy, caregiving, and parent figure Therapists out there. 💐🤎
And to those grieving, navigating complicated relationships with a parent, longing to become a mother, or finding today emotionally difficult in any way, you are deeply seen too. 🫂
I hope today and every day you’re able to recognize your awesomeness and the emotional labor you carry both inside and outside of the therapy room. Being both a Therapist and caregiver can be beautiful and exhausting all at once.
I hope you’re able to rest, pour back into yourself, and feel held the same way you hold space for so many others. You are seen, appreciated, and deserving of care too. 💛✨
I am not only grieving my mother, I am grieving my mother’s grief.
The grief she carried since the time of conception, the grief that shaped her childhood, she was only 9 years old when her mom died, my Abuela Emilia. I am grieving her grief, the grief that shaped how she mothered me.
The grief that was never voiced, acknowledged, tenderly held with love and compassion.
I am grieving my mother’s grief.
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Translation from Reel:
“If I were born again I would choose to be my mother’s mother. I would give her all the kisses that she missed as a child, I would read her all the books she never read.
At night I would tell her with all my heart how much I love her, that life is beautiful in the arms of the one who loves you. I would buy her candy apples and sing songs to her while we played on the floor. I would comb her hair every morning before going to school, and she wouldn’t have to cry so much, she wouldn’t grow up in so much pain, and she would be a happy little girl.”
#diadelasmadres
#mexicanmothersday
#grief
#loss
#grievingdaughter
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✨ Curious about Family Constellations? ✨
Family Constellations is a guided group experience that helps explore personal challenges, relationship patterns, and family dynamics in a supportive setting. Constellations Circles offer support with experiences relating to:
🌿 Family relationships
🌿 Repeating life patterns
🌿 Grief or loss
🌿 Relationship challenges
🌿 Emotional stress or blocks
🌿 Life transitions and decisions
✨ Participation Options ✨
🐚 RSVP for a Personal Constellation
Bring a personal challenge or life situation into the group process for deeper insight, clarity, and healing.
🐚RSVP for General Group Participation
Attend as part of the circle to observe, witness, and participate in the healing movements of the group.
🗓 Saturday, May 30th, 2026
⏰ 12pm–3:30pm
📍 @CorazonCounseling
Whether you come to explore your own experience or witness the group process, all are welcome. 💛
✨ No prior experience necessary ✨
#FamilyConstellations #HealingJourney #EmotionalHealing #PersonalGrowth #HealingCircle# InnerWork
For those of us who’ve lost our mother, we know too well the inevitable dread and grief that May brings to our hearts.
This includes losing a mother not only to death but also due to psychiatric illness, abandonment, estrangement, or a family rupture.
I invite you to take time during the month of May to tend to your grief in ways that honor the memory of your mother.
That could look like….
🌸 Reflect on the memories that bring up moments of joy and love shared between you and your mother. Where did these memories take place? Visit those places.
🌸Create a Mother’s Day card, write a message for her, and draw a picture on the card, like when you did back in grade school. Then create one for yourself, too.
🌸Spend time in Mother nature connecting to one of the elements that reminds you most of your mom. Is that fire, water, earth, or air? Allow the medicine of this element to hold your grief, let it nurture, and mother you.
🌸Join us Wednesday May 27th for our free Virtual Grief Support group Tecito con Grief 7pm
🌸Give yourself all the love and grace you need during this difficult month of May, set clear boundaries if needed, ask for support, and remember you are not alone.
What have you done that’s been helpful in tending to your grief and honoring your mother, during Mother’s day?
#mothersdaygrief
#grievingmom
#motheringwhilegrieving
#mothersday
#grief
grievingingtherapist
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✨Mariposa Circle ✨
Mid-life can feel like a deep and unexpected shift. It may feel like a time of falling apart, but it is truly a sacred initiation.
You are invited to gather in circle—to be seen, heard, and to share wisdom with other women.
Join us as we explore the medicine and spirit of this transformation. Just as the butterfly moves through many stages before it can fly, this phase of life invites renewal, deeper connection, and greater wisdom. ✨🦋✨
Join me virtually or in person at Corazón Counseling in Riverside, CA.
#secondbloom#midlife#womencircle#wisewoman
Repost @child_life_grief_notes
Mother’s Day can stir up many emotions for kids . . . sadness, longing, confusion, even pressure to “be okay.” For children who are missing their mom, or missing the way things used to be, this day can feel especially tender. As caring adults, one of the most powerful things we can offer is presence - not answers, not fixes - just gentle acknowledgment and love.
Here are some supportive and validating things we can say to help grieving kids feel seen, heard, and not alone . . .
❤️🩹 “It’s okay to miss your mom today. I’m here with you.”
❤️🩹 “However you’re feeling today — sad, quiet, angry, or anything else — it’s all okay.”
❤️🩹 “You don’t have to talk about it unless you want to. I’ll be here either way.”
❤️🩹 “You’re allowed to have a hard day. I’m not going anywhere.”
❤️🩹 “Even if you don’t feel like doing anything for Mother’s Day, that’s okay. I understand.”
❤️🩹 “It’s okay if you want to cry. It’s okay if you don’t. I’ll sit beside you.”
❤️🩹 “Mother’s Day can feel really different when someone you love isn’t here. There’s no right or wrong way to feel about it.”
❤️🩹 “Do you want to talk about a memory of your mom? Or would you rather just hang out quietly? Either way, I’m here.”
❤️🩹 “Some kids want to do something to remember their mom today. Others don’t. What feels right to you?
❤️🩹 “I see how much you love her. That love doesn’t go away, even when someone dies.”
❤️🩹 “I’m proud of you for showing up to this day, however you are.”
❤️🩹 “It’s okay if Mother’s Day feels really hard, and it’s okay if there are parts of it that don’t.”
❤️🩹 “I wish things were different for you today. I care so much about you.”
Grief doesn’t follow the calendar, but some days - like Mother’s Day - can bring it to the surface in especially strong ways. When we meet kids in their truth, without rushing them to feel better, we build trust and safety. Your steady presence, compassionate words, and willingness to just be with them - in joy or in sorrow - can make all the difference.
Just by showing up with kindness, you’re helping a grieving child carry something that no child should have to carry alone ❤️🩹.
Introducing our mesa, our heart centered board! 🤎
Elizabeth Mendez (She/They) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works primarily with first-generation, BIPOC, and queer college students. Her clinical approach supports individuals through grief and loss, cultural stress, and life transitions, using a trauma-informed integrative approach drawing from both western therapeutic frameworks and ancestral healing traditions.
Dr. Jennie Luna is currently a Professor in Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Channel Islands. Her research focuses on the contemporary history and diaspora of Danza Mexica/Azteca tradition and its impact on Xicana Indígena identity, culture, and spirituality. As a danzactivist-scholar, Dr. Luna incorporates Nahuatl language study, decolonial scholarship, Indigeneity, Xicana spiritualities, traditional birthing methods, reproductive justice, and Indigenous food and healing practices.
Emilia Ortega-Jara, LCSW is a cultural practitioner, community psychotherapist, and founder of Corazon Counseling. Emilia is on a journey to support others through grief and loss. Walking alongside corazones wanting to remember their connection to la tierra y sabiduria ancestral.
