139. The Season I Chose Myself
Unbreakable Latina
Unbreakable Latina LLC
2.4 • 547 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, life forces us to pause and in that pause, we discover what really matters. In this episode, I get real about the season I took a step back from everything: from my podcast, from social media, from trying to keep up. I was heartbroken, overwhelmed, and learning to heal. Even though I thought I had healed a lot, this breakup made me feel like I was unhealed. I share what it looked like behind the scenes, the lessons therapy taught me, and why choosing myself first was the most powerful decision I could make.
If you’ve ever felt like you needed to disappear to find yourself, this episode is for you. It’s a reminder that pausing doesn’t mean quitting, and healing doesn’t have a timeline. Join me as I reflect, release guilt, and come back to life on my own terms.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unbreakable Latina. |
| 0:05.0 | Is this thing on? |
| 0:21.6 | Hi guys, welcome back to Unbreakable Latina. |
| 0:24.8 | This is your host, Melina. |
| 0:26.5 | I hope you're having an amazing 2026. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm recording today is January 1st. |
| 0:33.0 | How did we get here? |
| 0:34.7 | How long has it been since I spoken to you guys? |
| 0:37.1 | It's been many, many months. |
| 0:38.8 | I today realized that I have not recorded an episode since August. |
| 0:42.7 | And so much has happened. |
| 0:44.6 | So where have I been? |
| 0:46.7 | Why the sudden break? |
| 0:48.3 | Why did I disappear off the face of the podcasting world? |
| 0:52.5 | I was overwhelmed. |
| 0:53.8 | I was not taking my own advice. I wasn't slowing down. |
| 0:58.5 | If you follow me on Instagram, then you'll know a little bit of why I took a break. But if you |
| 1:03.0 | don't follow me on Instagram, I posted it maybe a few weeks after I just stopped uploading |
| 1:08.5 | episodes because I had this conversation with my brother and he's like, |
| 1:12.5 | what are your plans with the podcast? And at the moment, I had been struggling with my depression. |
| 1:20.0 | I had been going through a breakup. So many things happen all at once during the summer that I just felt empty. I felt like I didn't know |
| 1:31.5 | what I wanted to do. I think my last episode was finding motivation. I can even remember. Let me |
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