✅ If you struggle with people-pleasing, shrinking yourself, or speaking up. 

✅ If you’re feeling shame and loneliness.  

✅ If you’re needing the space to grieve the loss of connection to your Soul, land, and ancestors.  

✅ If you’re afraid to be vulnerable, be seen by others, or fear seeing yourself.  

✅ If you have a hard time setting boundaries.

✅ If you feel guilty taking up space and caring for your needs.

✅ If you’re uncomfortable receiving love, or scared to love.

✅ If you’re wanting to heal your relationship with your inner child(ren).

✅ If you’re tired of always being the "strong one" and pushing through everything.

✅ If you’re wanting to build community with other women and femmes of color on the journey toward reclaiming.

✅ If you’re of the Boricua diaspora and are trying to deepen your connection to your roots.

The journey will also include:

• A community-based group chat (WhatsAPP) to foster connection with each other before and after the retreat

• Pre-retreat group call: tentatively scheduled for TBA

• Post-retreat group calls: 2 monthly calls to help integrate what was revealed in the in-person retreat and into your day-to-day life. They will be on TBA

The Venue-

Casa Grande Mountain Retreat

“Set in a stunning valley on 105 lush tropical acres, Casa Grande Mountain Retreat is the perfect oasis of peace and tranquility. The former coffee plantation, now exquisitely landscaped, has 20 rooms scattered up in the mountainside with a beautiful river as the lower border”

• Double full rooms and limited Single queen bedroom rooms with en-suite bathroom, private porch, and hammock. 

• Salt-water swimming pool. 

• Fully equipped yoga center called El Templo

• Plant-based farm-to-table locally sourced food made by private chef 

• Multiple river waterfalls (río Canonillas) that you can swim in

• Hiking trails

A little about Dra. Lydiana,

¡Hola! I am a Boricua licensed psychologist with over 14 years of experience helping mostly women, femmes and families navigate, manage and learn ways to overcome the effects of traumas (including generational and collective trauma). I am passionate about helping them reconnect with their soul, truth, authenticity, and gifts after trauma. As a fellow human and Boricua born and raised on the Island, I grew up internalizing that who I was, was not good enough, and that I needed to “be” someone that people would accept in order to stay safe. This internalized belief of not being good enough worsened upon moving to Los Angeles to complete my doctoral internship. I literally lost my voice - now had to speak in English, and severed my roots by trying to “fit” the role of a professional euro-centric psychologist.

After leaving corporate America (mostly community mental health jobs) in 2016, I began a journey of recognizing the masks, releasing the ones that are no longer my truth, and reclaiming and reconnecting with my authentic voice. I’m not there yet completely, as it’s a journey, but as I continue to move along in it, I have also started to help others embark on it. I can’t wait to have you! It will be an honor and a privilege :) Besides this work, I am also a mama of 2 little ones, a wife, and a fellow traveler. 

In terms of my approach: I am trained in EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1, Trauma Resiliency Model Level 2, Seeking Safety, and other modalities that are considered gold standards to treat trauma. However, I mostly integrate and let my intuition guide the approach, and I adapt to the needs of the client. My style tends to be more of a gentle, non-confrontational, and non-judgemental way. To learn more about me and my gifts as a psychologist, I invite you to listen to these episodes in Licensed Psychologist, Now What? podcast

Hola stellar soul,

I’m Natalie and I’m a Boricua licensed therapist in New York. I guess you could also say I’m Nuyorican, since I grew up in New York. I’ve dedicated 15 years to trauma counseling in my private practice. I specialize in helping BIPOC reel from the soul wounds of Complex Posttraumatic Stress. I’ve held space for people on the healing journey navigating the pain of racial trauma, intergenerational trauma and legacy wounds, and sexual trauma. Professionally, I’m a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), and am Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) informed. I’m also the author of The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color, released October 2022. 

For a long time, I struggled finding my voice. If I’m honest, I think I’ve always felt afraid of it, or afraid of what would happen if I used it. I learned growing up to silence myself, both in my home and in school. As a Puerto Rican of the diaspora, many of us have been discouraged to speak Spanish and are forced to assimilate. I remember only speaking Spanish when we would travel to Puerto Rico to visit my family, but at school in New York- it was English only. I held so much grief about the loss of some Spanish language, loss of connection to my roots and my ancestors—because of messages entrenched in internalized racism- “silence yourself to survive!” I also learned a similar messaging at home: speaking up for yourself led to punishment. And because of all this conditioning, I found myself struggling to set boundaries, care for my own needs, hold onto my voice, and often relinquished my power to survive toxic environments.

I’ve come such a long way to find my voice again, love. I’ve grappled with feeling invisible when I’ve exiled my voice and my soul energy. I’ve worked with my shadows and continue to tend the garden of ancestral grief. I now walk the journey of reclaiming the ancestral practices that I was taught to fear and judge. But I’m still becoming, just like you. My ancestors still mold me. I walk along this healing journey as an intuitive empath, and I remain intentional about embracing my intuition and connection to the spirit world. I’m truly looking forward to getting to know you!