Unleash, Unlearn, and Enliven

In this book Cristy offers practices and questions to help you love your hidden and marginalized identities so you can live with greater ease and freedom. You might have good reasons you covered aspects of who you are. Bosses or peers may have felt intimidated by your smarts or skills. You might have gotten burned when you tried to speak your truth. Your family or ancestors may have absorbed cultural messages that taught them not to stand out too much. Much well-meaning advice from...
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In this book Cristy offers practices and questions to help you love your hidden and marginalized identities so you can live with greater ease and freedom. You might have good reasons you covered aspects of who you are. Bosses or peers may have felt intimidated by your smarts or skills. You might have gotten burned when you tried to speak your truth. Your family or ancestors may have absorbed cultural messages that taught them not to stand out too much. Much well-meaning advice from neurotypical white people misses the mark for us. Bias, ableism, and racism are real. Gas-lighting our lived experiences does not help. It is not ALL in our heads. Our past experiences and ancestral lineages live in our BODIES and nervous systems epigenetically. We have taken up these defenses for good reasons. And we can unwind them with conscious practice when they are no longer needed.Even if part of you feels hidden in the shadows, this book aims to help you live with greater ease and freedom while pursuing your courageous work.As a Latina leader in the STEM field with ADHD she has learned to embrace her strengths and wants you to do the same.