Entre Tías y Amiguis with Adri Rodriguez

<p>This week on <em>Entre Tías y Amiguis</em>, Adri is joined by Suyapa Ulloa to talk about breaking cycles and choosing yourself in your liberation era. Together, they explore what it means to unlearn marianismo, reclaim your voice, and navigate the grief and freedom that come with saying “no más.”</p><p>This one is for you if you’ve ever felt the weight of being the eldest daughter, and you’re learning to set boundaries that honor your truth.</p><p>--------------</p><p>In this heart-centered conversation, Adri is joined by Suyapa Ulloa, <em>trauma therapist, space holder, and eldest daughter healing through ancestral reconnection</em>, to talk about what it really means to break free from the patterns we were taught to carry.</p><p>From the pressure to fulfill the “perfect daughter” dream to the courage to walk away from an emotionally abusive marriage, Suyapa shares what it really looks like to liberate yourself, not just for you, but for your ancestors too.</p><p>This episode is for the ones who grew up putting everyone else first. The ones healing from guilt that was never theirs to carry. The ones reclaiming their voice after years of silence.</p><p>✨ Together, we talk about:</p><ul><li>What it means to be “la mayor” in a family shaped by disability and trauma</li><li>How marianismo and religious expectations shaped Suyapa’s marriage</li><li>The grief and clarity that come with post-divorce liberation</li><li>Releasing guilt and redefining generational healing without needing to be a parent</li><li>The magic of ancestral validation and intuitive connection</li><li>Building chosen family when you’ve always been the strong one</li><li>How therapists heal too, and why showing our humanness matters</li></ul><p><strong>✨ Closing Reflection</strong></p><p>Suyapa reminds us that you don’t have to be a parent to be a cycle-breaker. That liberation is allowed to feel messy, holy, and deeply human. And that healing means learning to choose yourself without apology—even when it’s scary.</p><p>This is for everyone doing the hard and beautiful work of changing the family story.</p><p>Tune in when you’re ready to dip your toe into the dream, and maybe be a little delulu along the way.</p><p><strong>✨ About Suyapa Ulloa</strong></p><p>Suyapa Ulloa (she/her/ella) is a licensed clinical social worker, trauma and anxiety therapist, and eldest daughter of immigrant parents from Honduras and Mexico. Her work centers on generational healing, sibling relationships, and supporting Latinx adults unlearning people-pleasing and reclaiming their voice. As a therapist and Tía figure, she holds space for individual and collective liberation rooted in cultural and ancestral wisdom.</p><p>🌿 Follow Suyapa:</p><ul><li>Instagram – @suyapasutherapist</li><li>Website – <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://suyapasutherapist.com">suyapasutherapist.com</a></li></ul>

<p>This week on Entre Tías y Amiguis, Adri is joined by Stacy Godoy, LMFT, to talk about language loss, reclamation, and coming home to yourself. Together, they explore what it means to reconnect with your culture and identity as an act of healing and resistance.</p><p>This one is for you if you’ve ever felt ashamed for not speaking Spanish and you’re learning that healing is about returning, not performing.</p><p>In this heart-centered conversation, Adri is joined by Stacy Godoy, a Los Angeles-based therapist and proud second-generation Mexicana, to talk about what it means to move from "no sabo" to "sí sabo."</p><p>From losing connection to language through assimilation and survival, to reclaiming identity through immersion, therapy, and community, Stacy shares what it really looks like to return to yourself with gentleness and courage.</p><p>This episode is for the ones who are learning to speak their mother tongue without shame. The ones piecing together their roots, one word at a time. The ones realizing that belonging isn’t lost, it’s waiting for you.</p><p><strong>Together, we talk about:</strong></p><ul><li>What sparked Stacy’s journey to learn Spanish as a second-generation Latina</li><li>The painful therapy session that awakened her desire to reclaim her language</li><li>How language loss is not personal failure but the result of colonization and assimilation</li><li>What it feels like to emote in Spanish and unlock ancestral emotions through language</li><li>How reconnecting with culture is reshaping her relationships, identity, and sense of belonging</li><li>Why learning Spanish as an adult can be both an act of love and of resistance</li></ul><p><strong>Closing Reflection</strong></p><p>Stacy reminds us that healing doesn’t always look like arriving. Sometimes it looks like beginning again.</p><p>That returning to language is also returning to love.</p><p>And that healing means honoring the stories we inherited while still choosing our own.</p><p>This is for everyone finding their way back to themselves, one palabra, one memory, one generation at a time.</p><p>Tune in when you’re ready to remember that you already belong.</p><p><strong>About Stacy Godoy</strong></p><p>Stacy Rae Godoy, LMFT (she/her/ella) is a therapist based in Los Angeles, offering online therapy and coaching to adults across California. With over a decade of experience in eating disorder treatment, Stacy’s work centers harm reduction, body trust, and cultural connection. Her heart-led mission is to make mental health care more accessible, inclusive, and grounded in compassion, both in English and Spanish.</p><p><strong>🌿 Follow Stacy:</strong></p><ul><li>Instagram – <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/_bolognasandwich_">@bolognasandwich</a></li><li>Website – <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://stacygodoymft.com">stacygodoymft.com</a></li></ul>

<p>This week on <em>Entre Tías y Amiguis</em>, Adri is joined by Dra. Terry Orozco to talk about navigating life with disability, identity, and legacy. Together, they explore what it means to hold space for your truth, ask for help, and become the support you once needed.</p><p>This one is for you if you’ve ever felt like giving up but kept going anyway, and if you’re learning to balance care for others with care for yourself.</p><p>In this heart-centered conversation, Adri is joined by Dra. Terry Orozco, <em>academic coach, first-gen Latina, and unapologetic advocate for students navigating hard things</em>, to talk about the quiet power of perseverance, grief, and becoming your own kind of helper.</p><p>From being underestimated and navigating ableism to earning a doctorate and launching her own business, Terry shares what it really looks like to move through guilt, grief, and burnout—and choose grace anyway.</p><p>This episode is for the ones who have carried invisible weight for years. The ones who never had a mentor like them growing up. The ones doing it their own way, even when the world doesn’t make room for them.</p><p><strong>Together, we talk about:</strong></p><ul><li>How Terry’s experience with SMA shaped her view of strength and dignity</li><li>The power of helpers, chosen family, and breaking the rules to do the right thing</li><li>Facing discrimination as a disabled Latina in education and the workplace</li><li>Academic burnout, grief, and shame, and how she moved through it</li><li>Why entrepreneurship offered the freedom to help people on her own terms</li></ul><p><strong>Closing Reflection</strong></p><p>Terry reminds us that you don’t need to prove yourself to anyone but you.</p><p>That sometimes you’re not failing, you just need a nap, a pause, or a community.</p><p>And that healing means choosing softness, rest, and courage even when life gets hard. 🌿</p><p>This is for everyone learning how to be strong in a different way.</p><p><strong>About Dra. Terry Orozco</strong></p><p>Dra. Terry Orozco (she/her) is a first-gen Mexican-American academic coach, disability advocate, and the only person in her family with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). A proud doctoral graduate, Terry now supports other Latinas navigating school, identity, and purpose. Her work centers on legacy, empathy, and showing up for others, on her own terms.</p><p>Follow Terry:</p><ul><li>Instagram – <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/terryorozco.psyd">@terryorozco.psyd</a></li><li>Website - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://terryorozcopsyd.com/">https://terryorozcopsyd.com/</a></li></ul><p>Tune in when you’re ready to release shame, reclaim your story, and remind yourself: you’re not done yet.</p>

<p>This week on <em>Entre Tías y Amiguis</em>, Adri is joined by Sara Stanizai to talk about what it means to reclaim your culture, identity, and story on your own terms. Together, they explore how to honor your collectivist roots while honoring yourself, and how reconnecting to your culture can be one of the most transformative acts of self-love.</p><p>This one is for you if you’ve ever felt too far from your culture, and you’re ready to do it your way, with pride, nuance, and tenderness.</p><p>In this heart-centered conversation, Adri is joined by Sara Stanizai, a queer Afghan American feminist therapist, speaker, and host of the “You Did That!” podcast, to talk about cultural reclamation, eldest daughter energy, and finding belonging beyond binaries.</p><p>From internalized shame and disconnection to reconnection, visibility, and purpose, Sara shares what it really looks like to redefine success and healing when you haven’t seen it modeled before.</p><p>This episode is for the ones who have carried too much for too long. The ones who are learning that culture can be reclaimed with love, not guilt. The ones ready to take up space in their own way, bold, gentle, and true.</p><p>Together, we talk about:</p><ul><li>Reconnecting to culture as a radical act of healing</li><li>Eldest daughter expectations and reclaiming self-trust</li><li>Integrating queerness, faith, and family on your own terms</li><li>Building a therapy practice rooted in lived experience</li><li>Balancing collectivist values with self-honoring boundaries</li><li>Why integrity and self-trust are core to liberation</li><li>Doing something you haven’t seen done before</li></ul><p><strong>Closing Reflection</strong></p><p>Sara reminds us that there’s no test for belonging, once you claim it, you are part of it. That reconnection is not about doing culture “right,” it’s about doing it your way. And that healing means returning to yourself, honoring where you come from, and daring to live fully in your truth.</p><p>This is for everyone learning to bridge the worlds they come from and the one they’re creating.</p><p><strong>About Sara Stanizai</strong></p><p>Sara Stanizai (she/her) is a queer Afghan American therapist, coach, and speaker. She is the founder of <em>Prospect Therapy</em>, a queer- and trans-affirming practice based in Long Beach, CA, and the host of the <em>You Did That!</em> podcast, celebrating the black sheep and cycle-breakers rewriting success on their own terms. Her work centers belonging, cultural reclamation, and helping first-gen and diaspora communities reconnect to themselves with compassion and pride.</p><p><strong>Follow Sara:</strong></p><ul><li>Instagram – <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/prospecttherapy">@prospecttherapy</a></li><li>Website – <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://prospecttherapy.com">prospecttherapy.com</a></li></ul>

<p>This week on <em>Entre Tías y Amiguis</em>, Adri is joined by Dr. Melissa Londono Connally to talk about parenting, compassion, and creating healing tools for caregivers. Together, they explore what it means to support families with creativity and presence, even when you're doing it for the first time.</p><p>This one is for you if you’re learning how to parent differently than you were raised 💛 and if you’ve ever struggled to offer yourself the compassion you give to others.</p><p>In this heart-centered conversation, Adri is joined by Dr. Melissa Londono Connally, <em>a Colombian-American psychologist, visual artist, mom, and co-founder of G Parenting</em>, to talk about parenting, trauma, and building accessible healing tools for families.</p><p>From internalized pressure and burnout to creative freedom and cycle breaking, Dr. Melissa shares what it really looks like to care for others without losing yourself—and to choose compassion over perfection.</p><p>This episode is for the ones who are caregiving while healing 🌀</p><p>The ones reparenting themselves as they raise their kids 🌱</p><p>The ones trying to show up gently in a world that never modeled how 💔</p><p><strong>Together, we talk about:</strong></p><ul><li>Why compassion feels hard—and how to practice it anyway</li><li>Parenting with boundaries, care, and flexibility</li><li>How ACT, somatics, and trauma-informed care can support families</li><li>The role of creativity in healing for both kids and adults</li><li>What it means to take up space while staying grounded in your values</li></ul><p><strong>Closing Reflection</strong></p><p>Dr. Melissa Londono Connally reminds us that:</p><ul><li>Compassion isn’t a weakness, it’s a radical choice.</li><li>Parenting doesn’t require perfection; it requires presence.</li><li>And that healing means honoring our full humanity, even when we’re still figuring it out 🌿</li></ul><p>This is for everyone trying to raise the next generation while still tending to themselves. Tune in when you’re ready to breathe, reflect, and move toward what matters.</p><p><strong>About Dr. Melissa Londono Connally</strong></p><p>Dr. Melissa Londono Connally (she/her/ella) is a daughter of Colombian immigrants, psychologist in private practice, visual artist, author, and co-founder of <em>G Parenting</em>—a parenting education company offering trauma-informed, accessible resources for caregivers.</p><p>Her work lives at the intersection of psychology, art, and cultural healing. She believes not everyone can access therapy, but everyone deserves support. Through books, workshops, and education, she offers families tools to move toward gentler, more connected relationships—with their children and with themselves.</p><p>🌿 Follow Dr. Melissa:</p><ul><li>Instagram – @dr.melissaconnally</li><li>Website – <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.gparentingcourses.com/">https://www.gparentingcourses.com/</a></li><li>Book – To Be With Me: A Trauma Healing Book for Parents and Children</li></ul>