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I’m still smiling and shining from Benito Bowl. What a gift those 13 minutes were! And in case you missed it — here’s the replay.

Watching Bad Bunny build something this big, this bold, this unapologetically him — and unapologetically Latino — is such a powerful reminder of what’s possible when you believe in yourself and refuse to shrink.

February is LIT. 🔥

February 8: Bad Bunny Day in California.
February 13: National Self-Love Day.
February 14: Valentine’s Day, also known as Día del Amor y la Amistad — celebrating romantic love and friendship.

And of course, February is Black History Month, honoring the resilience, brilliance, and the immeasurable impact of our Black brothers and sisters.

This month is lit with Love for Yourself. Love for Your People. Love for Community. 🔥 So let’s use all of this — and that Benito Bowl energy — to sit with these questions: How am I believing in myself right now? How am I loving myself today?

There’s a lot of sh*t happening in our streets and our world, so it might feel selfish to focus inward — but nope to the nope. That’s an old story we’re done carrying. Believing in yourself and loving yourself is how you keep going. It’s how we stay rooted. It’s how we show up.

So this month’s theme — and let’s be real, an all-year thing — is self-love. The kind your teenage self dancing at Benito’s casita with Cardi B, Karol G, and Pedro Pascal would’ve understood instantly… and now your nervous system will thank you.

Let’s keep perreando with our self-love. 💃🏽

Abrazos,
♥️ Laura

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Quick update: I’m stepping away from sharing my personal reflections on the blog. 📝 Not because I’m done writing — but because I’m gathering all the research, reflections, lessons, breakthroughs, and “life be lifin’” moments and officially turning them into the foundation for my book. 📖✨ Yes, it’s happening!

Betting on my own voice. Trusting myself. And Going all in! 💃🏽⚡️⚡️⚡️

THANK YOU to everyone who read, shared, and connected with my blog. It truly has meant the world to me. 💛🙏🏽

Every lesson, story, and breakthrough will be woven into something bigger — and I can’t wait for you to experience it. 📖✨💃🏽⚡️💃🏽⚡️💃🏽⚡️ Oh…(flips hair) don’t mind me, just doing author things now. 📖😄 #DreamTheDream ✨

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Get Comfy with Self-Loving

If you had told teenage me that self-love meant going to bed early, drinking water, and “listening to my body”… I would’ve rolled my eyes, turned up my Discman, and stayed up way too late anyway.

But self-love I would’ve actually loved? Yes, pleazzzze!

So today I’m sharing self-love practices that feel available, fun, and easy — the kind your younger self would’ve instantly jived with (and your nervous system will thank you for now).

LOVE LOVE LOVE your teenage self — she got you here. 💝

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We are inundated with traumatic news on the regular. It’s constant. It’s heavy. And it takes a toll — on our bodies, our nervous systems, and our sense of safety.

So the Benito Bowl felt like a moment of respite. At least for me, it was a joyous emotional pause. A breath. And one hell of a reminder of the sazón that makes our Brown and Black communities so powerful and so grand — our creativity, our joy, our humor, our rhythm, our ability to gather and celebrate even in the midst of harm.

That joy matters.

And it exists alongside a hard truth: what’s happening to our communities right now is violent. Families are being torn apart. People are living in fear. Lives are being upended — and this is happening on purpose.

Silence helps systems. Action helps people.

Here’s how to show up:

• Donate, if you can, to the Immigrant Defense Project — they’re on the front lines fighting detention and deportation.

• No money right now? Share this. Talk about it. Post it. Text it. Awareness creates pressure. Pressure creates change.

• Create. Make the rage visible. Make the grief visible. Make the love visible. Write. Paint. Sing. Design. Film. Turn whatever you’re carrying into something that can help.

Donate. Share. Fundraise. Create.

And in case this comes up — because I know it does for a lot of us:

You can still experience joy AND have strong feelings. You can take care of yourself AND feel rage. You can rest AND resist.

Don’t let them take your joy away. That’s part of the fight, too.

Go nourish your teenage self. Eat the Airheads. Get some rest. Laugh when you can. Sing. Cook. Feel the love.

Our joy is ours. Always.

Love you. Support you. Here for you.

♥️ Laura

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