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  • Faith, Fear, And Flow - Healing Through Uncertainty

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    When certainty falls away, what’s left to hold? We open the door to a candid, healing conversation about navigating diagnosis, surgery, and the uneasy calm that comes after the hospital lights fade. With a blend of Spanish and English, body wisdom and practical ritual, we map the terrain where fear, faith, and flow meet—and learn how to keep moving when the mind wants guarantees and the heart only has questions.

    I share what it felt like to tell my family, how community care showed up in meals, messages, and quiet presence, and why receiving support is its own kind of courage. We unpack fear without shaming it, seeing it as a protector with information rather than a problem to crush. From there, faith becomes an act of devotion: trusting doctors and divine timing, breathing when plans dissolve, and letting love arrive in imperfect ways. You’ll hear guided grounding, a simple river visualization, and a four-part ritual to release control, honor emotion, and invite clarity. Along the way, we explore somatic cues, reflection prompts, and the micro-practices that help a nervous system feel safe enough to heal.

    If you’re facing uncertainty—health news, relationship shifts, a job change, or a calling you didn’t plan—this conversation offers steady tools: breathwork for regulation, language to thank fear, and a rhythm for surrender that doesn’t abandon agency. The message is simple and strong: you don’t have to be fearless to be faithful. Keep showing up for yourself, one honest breath at a time, and let flow carry you where forcing never could.

    If this resonated, subscribe and share it with someone who needs a little courage today. Leave a review with the line that stayed with you most on Instagram at @dpraxedis.

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    17 min
  • Honoring the Veil — Día de los Muertos & the Spirit of Remembrance

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    The air feels different this time of year, like the world has turned down the noise so we can hear what’s always been speaking. We step into the thin-veil season to honor Halloween, All Saints Day, and Día de los Muertos as a bridge between memory and presence—where candles, marigolds, and names become a path home for our loved ones and a source of strength for us.

    We explore the global roots of remembrance, from Celtic Samhain and All Souls traditions to the color and warmth of Latin American altars. Along the way, I share family stories—the mechanic dad whose scent still finds me, the abuelo whose humor outlived his pain—and how simple objects on an ofrenda can hold entire histories. You’ll learn the meaning behind key elements: marigolds guiding the way, candles as steady light, water for the journey, and pan de muerto symbolizing the circle of life. We talk about visitations that look like flickering lights, an old song on the radio, or a fragrance that pulls you back to childhood—and why those moments are invitations, not accidents.

    We also open the door to ancestral healing, the kind that moves through seven generations behind and ahead. With clear, practical steps—how to build a meaningful altar at home, words to welcome your people, prompts to release and receive—you’ll have everything you need to start or deepen your practice. I read a channeled message about joy and blessing, and I share how my own health journey is teaching me to trust timing, lean into community, and remember that love never dies. We close with a guided meditation that leads you down a candlelit path to a living altar, where an elder reminds you: you are our continuation.

    Light a candle, say their names, and let your home feel warmer for it. If this spoke to you, follow the show, share it with someone you love, and leave a review so more people can find their way to this circle.

    🕯️ JOURNAL PROMPTS

    1. Who are the ancestors or loved ones you want to honor this season?
    2. What message do you think they would want you to hear today?
    3. What ritual, song, or story connects you most to your roots?
    4. What part of your lineage feels ready to heal through you?

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    26 min
  • The Body Remembers — Emotional Healing in Physical Illness

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    Your body has been speaking this whole time—through tight jaws, heavy shoulders, and the ache that won’t quit—and today we slow down enough to hear it. We explore how symptoms can hold unprocessed emotions, grief we never voiced, and even ancestral stories we’ve been carrying without knowing. Through the lens of curanderismo and grounded somatic tools, we map what the body remembers and learn how to move stuck energy with compassion instead of force.

    I share personal moments, from a thrown-out back to my current breast cancer journey, and the surprising ways these chapters opened conversations about control, caretaking, lineage, and the places I still needed to receive support. We walk through a gentle body scan, a short somatic release practice, and a golden light visualization you can return to whenever you feel overwhelmed. Along the way, we reframe tears and trembling as sacred releases, not weaknesses; we talk boundaries as medicine; and we honor humor, prayer, and community as steady companions when the path gets hard.

    If your body has been sending signals—fatigue, migraines, chest tightness, or that quiet exhaustion language can’t capture—this conversation offers practical and soulful ways to listen and respond. You’ll leave with journaling prompts to clarify what needs attention, a few ritual tools from curanderismo to help energy move, and simple phrases that invite safety back into your nervous system. Subscribe for more healing-centered episodes, share this with someone who needs a tender nudge, and leave a review to help others find this space. What part of your body are you ready to listen to today?

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    30 min
  • Stop Slamming Cabinets And Take The Tamales

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    What if the strongest move isn’t holding it all together, but letting yourself be held? We open the door to community care and explore how receiving support can be a radical, tender step toward real healing—especially for those of us taught to be the fixer, the organizer, the one who keeps it all running. Through lived stories, cultural memory, and practical tools, we map a path from hyper‑individualism to sisterhood.

    I share how impending surgeries, family logistics, and everyday pressures revealed where I still try to do it alone—and how boundaries, not burnout, became my compass. We talk about the sneaky voice of guilt that shows up when we rest or ask for help, and then we flip the script: receiving is reciprocal. Accepting a glass of water, a meal, a ride, or a listening ear gives others purpose and deepens connection. From there we move into tools that make support feel safe in the body: breathwork to calm the nervous system, emotional regulation to ride big feelings back to neutral, and honest check‑ins that replace slammed cabinets with clear words.

    You’ll get guided prompts to explore where receiving feels tight or open, who feels safe to lean on, and how to build reciprocal ties in your neighborhood, group classes, or support circles. We close with a visualization to “call in your circle,” honoring ancestors, friends, and soul sisters who remind us we don’t have to do this alone. If you’re ready to trade exhaustion for belonging and turn help into healing, this conversation is your invitation to say yes.

    If this landed for you, share it with someone who needs the reminder, subscribe for more community‑rooted healing, and leave a review so others can find us. Your yes makes this circle stronger.

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    27 min
  • I Tried to Outrun the Aries Moon and She Put Me in Time-Out

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    If you’ve ever felt life slam the brakes—through illness, heartbreak, loss, or burnout—this conversation invites you to see the pause not as punishment, but as protection. We open with breathwork to ground your nervous system, then move into a raw story of hosting a community challenge under an Aries full moon while navigating a cancer diagnosis, the pressure to be strong, and the quiet call to surrender. Along the way, we honor ancestral guidance and the radical idea that you don’t have to earn rest.

    Together, we unpack why presence equals power and why power doesn’t always look like action. You’ll hear three core truths of the medicine of surrender: stillness is fertile soil, crying is cleansing, and asking for help is an initiation into safer love. We talk about emotional regulation in plain language—how to become the steady voice your inner child needed—using simple practices you can try today: a hand over your heart, a mantra that anchors safety, and permission to cancel what your body can’t hold.

    We also guide you through a somatic meditation that roots you into the earth, warms the heart with golden light, and helps release perfectionism and the fear of being seen. You’ll leave with reflective journal prompts to integrate the insights, plus a renewed understanding of how ancestral wisdom, breathwork, and nervous system safety work together. If you’re ready to stop carrying what isn’t yours and trust the timing of your healing, this is your invitation to soften, receive, and let the pause become your portal.

    If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who’s resisting their own pause, and leave a review so more gente can find this space. What are you ready to release today?

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    29 min
  • Life Just Got Real: My Breast Cancer Journey

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    A routine follow-up call turned into the moment everything changed, and we’re not hiding from it. Dora shares how a breast cancer diagnosis cracked open old patterns—people-pleasing, cultural silence around illness, and the habit of being “the strong one”—and how choosing truth over secrecy created a path back to connection. From telling her husband over a chocolate bar in the garage to navigating a maze of tests, timelines, and tough conversations, this episode is a raw portrait of fear, faith, and the fierce boundaries that protect peace.

    We talk about the cost of pretending to be fine and the relief in finally saying what’s real. You’ll hear the spiritual tools that keep us grounded—limpias, prayer, journaling, and listening for the ancestors—along with the practical shifts that matter: asking for help, protecting mornings for stillness, and letting others carry part of the weight. We explore what “body as ally” actually means, how symptoms can be messengers when we slow down enough to listen, and why breaking generational patterns of silence is its own kind of medicine.

    If you’ve ever felt pressure to hold it all together, this conversation offers a different script. Come for the honest story; stay for the reminder that healing can be medical and spiritual, tender and tough, personal and communal. And if your intuition has been nudging you to get screened, let this be your sign to act. Subscribe, share with someone who needs courage today, and leave a review with the boundary you’re committing to this week—we’d love to hear it.

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    18 min
  • Snicker Bars and Soul Work: Turning Insight Into Action

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    Have you ever experienced that brilliant moment of clarity—when everything suddenly makes sense and you can see exactly what needs to change in your life? That's a breakthrough, and while those moments feel incredible, they're just the beginning of true transformation. 🙌🏽 Breakthroughs are like seeds that need nurturing to grow into lasting change. 🍃 Without integration—the consistent, intentional work of embodying our realizations—even our most powerful insights can slip away as life moves forward. This episode explores the crucial but rarely discussed process of what happens after the breakthrough moment. 

    I share my personal journey through grief after losing my father in 2019, which revealed generational patterns of silence and sacrifice that had been passed down through my lineage. That realization was powerful, but integration was messy—involving tears, boundary-setting with family, and reparenting my inner child who felt responsible for everyone else's healing. I discovered how something as simple as my comfort with Snickers bars connected to deeper emotional patterns with my father and my childhood need for love and attention.

    Integration faces universal challenges: the pull of familiar patterns, unrealistic expectations of instant results, and resistance from family and loved ones who may not understand or support our changes. When we begin setting boundaries, we often hear "You've changed" or "Ya no es la misma"—and while this can trigger guilt, it's actually confirmation we're growing into our authentic selves.

    The episode provides practical tools for integration: daily rituals like breathwork and journaling; somatic anchors to help your body feel safe with change; practicing boundaries in small, consistent ways; and finding community and accountability to support your journey. We close with a guided meditation and journaling prompts to help you honor your own breakthroughs and begin the integration process.

    Ready to not just have breakthroughs but live them? Join our upcoming group coaching experience in October where you'll find a sacred container to ground your insights into lasting change. Because a breakthrough is a door opened—integration is choosing to step through that door, day after day.

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    26 min
  • Igniting the Inner Spark

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    What happens when a woman finally speaks the truth she's been holding back for generations? Magic—ancestral healing that ripples backward and forward through time.

    The Inner Spark Challenge has become a sacred container for transformation, where brave mujeres are confronting the good girl conditioning that taught us "calladita te ves mas bonita" (you look prettier when quiet). Over five powerful days, we've watched participants reconnect with their dimmed inner light, release people-pleasing patterns, heal mother wounds, establish loving boundaries, and integrate these shifts through powerful ancestral connection.

    Day by day, we've witnessed breakthrough moments: the recognition of when we first learned to shrink ourselves, the identification of rules we've been living by that no longer serve us, the physical sensation of activating our voice after years of silence, and the liberation that comes from setting boundaries without guilt. These aren't just personal healing journeys—they're ancestral work that shifts generations.

    The collective healing space has revealed common threads running through our stories: silence used as survival, guilt that follows self-expression, overgiving until depletion, people-pleasing at our own expense, and self-sabotage when we get too close to our power. These patterns weren't created by us; they were passed down as protective mechanisms that once served our lineage but now keep us from our authentic expression.

    Ready to begin your own healing journey? Start with three simple practices: journal one truth daily with your hand on your throat, say no to one small thing this week without apology, and ground yourself with the affirmation "soy suficiente" (I am enough). Remember, healing doesn't take a lifetime to begin—just a moment of courage to take that first step. Your ancestors are waiting to pass you their blessings, not their burdens.

    Want to go deeper? Join the waitlist for my 12-week The Inner Shift: De Adentro Pa' Fuera (From Inside Out) coaching program where we'll work with ancestral clearing, inner child healing, limpias, astrology, human design, and intuitive healing to create lasting transformation.

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    22 min
  • Boundaries, Truth, and Reclaiming Your Power After Years of People-Pleasing

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    What happens when the "good girl" you've been playing all your life starts suffocating the authentic woman you're meant to become? In this soul-stirring exploration, we unpack the survival strategy that many first-gen Latinas and women from traditional backgrounds know intimately—the compulsion to please everyone, stay small, remain quiet, and always be "nice," even when your spirit is screaming "no más."

    Growing up hearing "pórtate bien" or "que vas a saber tu, mocosa" trains us to equate our worth with our ability to comply. This conditioning follows us everywhere—into boardrooms where we smile through microaggressions and take on unpaid work, into relationships where we ignore red flags to avoid being "dramática," and even into our own bodies, which bear the burden of our self-betrayal through physical symptoms like tight throats, stomach knots, and chronic exhaustion.

    Through vulnerable personal stories and practical wisdom, this episode guides you through recognizing where the good girl lives in your body and how to gently, firmly evict her. You'll learn powerful boundary scripts tailored to different scenarios—from workplace assertiveness to family gatherings—and experience a guided inner child reparenting practice that helps heal the part of you that learned it was safer to be "good" than truthful.

    The most transformative insight? Your body has been giving you data all along. That discomfort when you say yes but mean no isn't you being dramatic—it's your inner wisdom crying out for authenticity. By tuning into these signals and honoring them with clear boundaries, you begin the journey from "quedar bien" to "quedar bien conmigo"—from pleasing others to honoring yourself.

    Ready to release the good girl and reclaim your power? Join me for a special 7-day Good Girl Detox Challenge with daily practices to strengthen your boundary-setting muscles and reconnect with your authentic voice. Your transformation begins with a single, powerful truth: you don't have to earn your worth. Ya eres suficiente—you are enough.

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    39 min
  • Cosmic Fuego: Navigating September's Dual Eclipses

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    Freebie: Full Moon Release Prayer 

    The cosmic forces of September are stirring, bringing us two powerful eclipses that serve as portals for profound transformation. This month isn't just about endings and beginnings—it's a sacred invitation to align your daily practices with your deepest healing and to trust the wisdom that already lives within you.

    As we journey through the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on September 7-8, we're called to release what's been weighing us down—the illusions, the emotional baggage, the patterns of self-sacrifice that drain our energy. This watery eclipse creates the perfect conditions for surrender, asking us to reflect on what began six months ago and how those seeds have grown into their full expression. Through ritual and intention, we can harness this eclipse energy to dissolve what no longer serves our highest good, making space for something more aligned with our authentic nature.

    The Solar Eclipse in Virgo on September 21st shifts our focus to the practical aspects of healing—the daily rituals that ground us, the boundaries that protect our energy, and the mindful service that connects us to purpose. Virgo medicine reminds us that transformation happens through small, consistent actions rather than grand gestures. This eclipse opens pathways for establishing new routines that honor our bodies and set appropriate boundaries, teaching us that structure can be sacred when it supports our wellbeing.

    The magic of September lies in finding balance between these seemingly opposite energies—having one foot firmly planted in Virgo's practical earth while allowing the other to dance in Pisces' mystical waters. Can you create structure without becoming rigid? Can you surrender without sacrificing yourself? This dance between earth and ocean is where true healing happens.

    During this potent time, notice where your body is whispering (or shouting) messages about what needs attention. Pay attention to ancestral patterns around health, work, and self-sacrifice that may be influencing your choices. Remember that your worth is not measured by how much you do for others—this eclipse season asks you to reclaim your power by letting go of what's not yours to carry.

    Join me in embracing these cosmic resets with ritual, reflection, and community support. Whether through cleansing practices like limpias, journaling to track your journey, or meditation to calm your nervous system, there are many ways to work consciously with this transformative energy. Together, we can release what no longer serves, realign with our authentic selves, and step more fully into our power and purpose.

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    31 min

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Ay Mijita is a podcast about coming home to yourself.


Hosted by Dora Alicia Praxedis, Ay Mijita creates space for honest conversations about healing, identity,…