Welcome, meet the initiator of INDIGENEXUS!

Mabuhay, lios enchim aniavu!

As an ecologist, dreamweaver, heartist, cultural disruptor, folklorist, and public health scholar, I advocate for the health and well-being of all Kin, sensed and unsensed. My biology studies and graduate work in community and behavioral health deeply inform the topics and themes I explore in my creative and professional endeavors.

Thanks to my multicultural background, I have connections to many places and beings that influence my heart work. Recently, I have found myself surrounded by a community in the Midwest that embraces my unique voice — a voice emboldened by the Yoeme/Yaqui, Kapampangan/Filipino, and Mexican ancestors who have my back.

With sustained support from my ancestors, spiritual guides, and mentors in this life, I initiated this space to create invitations for others to develop and maintain relationships with the creative and spiritual aspects of their being.

Integral to my work is a multidimensional approach to health and wellness responsive to cultural nuance and the interconnected nature of the emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, and ancestral.

Unfortunately, our health and wellbeing is often in a a state of imbalance, arising from intrapersonal or interpersonal violence inflicted across lifetimes and lineages.

Such violence can create deep, energetic wounds that impact our ability to maintain a sense of good health and wellness.

Typically, these wounds make us more sensitive to pain that arises when exploring and expressing our creativity and spirituality, especially for those whose practices were buried in response to oppression and rejection. Of course, blockages in our energy and life tend to occur when we cannot freely exercise our capacity to create or connect with Spirit.

Grappling with energtic tenderness and blockages from an early age till this day, I recognize that transmuting pain and reclaiming our energetic sovereignty is key to our health and well-being.

Like dormant seeds waiting to be expressed, our energy awaits our tender care to welcome the conditions for co-creation and connection. We can encourage balance to bloom in our lives with conscious attention, intention, and action to honor all parts of ourselves across time. By taking this path of creative interbeing, I know we all may soon realize our genuine interconnection and liberation.

With awareness of the present and our power as creative and spiritual beings, we can reclaim and transmute the energies of the ancestral inheritances placed upon us — both the traumas and the treasures — into opportunities for insights and understanding.

Practicing and staying dedicated to this kind of alchemical heart and soul-based work is a difficult path many may choose not to take. However, the fears and doubts creating blockages on this path await our traversal.

When such blockages arise (and they will), we need tools to channel our energy to respond compassionately to the emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors limiting our potential.

That is why I plan to use my skills and musings to help break down stigmas and expectations around healing our creative and spiritual wounds to bring about more balance.

As we heal these wounds and step into the power of creative interbeing each day, aligned ways to improve other aspects of ourselves will naturally arise, especially for our mental health and socioemotional well-being.

Now is the time to be true to your heart's calling.

What activities speak to your soul?

How do you reclaim your energy?

What brings you joy?

with expansive love and will,

mgmc

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