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heart. Welcome, my love. Let's get started. Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing so

well. Today, we're diving into a concept that I first started using in my coaching work all the way back in

like 2013 or 14, which feels like about 600 lifetimes ago, and that is relationship magical realism.

So I first fell in love with the concept of magical realism, like the classic kind, in undergrad at Oberlin, where I studied

Latin American studies and spent an inordinate amount of time obsessing over the works of

Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Isabella Allende, and all the writers who wove the fantastical

into the mundane as if it were the most natural thing in the world, which I think it is.

But really, I think this love was inevitable. I am, after all, a Latina from South America.

So magical realism isn't just a literary genre to me. It's something in my bones, in my blood.

It's the way I was raised, the way stories were told around me,

the way life itself feels when you grow up in a culture where the veil between the possible

and the impossible is just a little thinner. And as it turns out, this way of seeing the

world, the blending of the real, as it were, and the imagined has a funny way of showing up

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