11 years ago, Christine Gutierrez was unhappy, unfulfilled, and looking for love in all the wrong places.

Sound familiar? Then she decided to make a change.

She started therapy and sought spiritual guidance. As she herself began to heal, she started learning

how to help others heal. She earned a master's in mental health counseling. She learned tantra

and shamanic practices. She recognized she was meant to help other women, especially women of color,

that her work could help them heal from trauma and reclaim their worth. Now she's put her

wisdom into a new book, I Am Diosa, a journey to Healing Deep, Loving Yourself, and Coming Back Home

to Soul. She and I get into it all. Healing deep, loving yourself, coming back to soul. Those are

big promises, Christine. Yeah. So what I tell everyone is that this is a lifetime journey. This is not

just a one-time thing. This process of coming back home to ourselves

and healing deep is something that's like an unpealing, right? It's a constantly unfolding process, right?

The most essential thing that we can do in our life is take the time to heal, take the time to look at

the wounds of our past, how they're affecting us in the present so that we can do in our life is take the time to heal, take the time to look at the wounds of our

past, how they're affecting us in the present, so that we can make conscious shifts to create

what we actually want in our life. What is the soul call? For me, the soul call is this ancient

voice within, this voice that oftentimes whispers and sometimes yells

at you to take the next right step, to walk away from a dead-end relationship, to take the

leap into a career path that you've been wanting to take, but perhaps have pushed to the

side. And it's always a

voice that's orienting you toward your better good. What did your soul call sound like the first time

that you heard it? The first time that I can remember hearing it as an adult was when I was in a really toxic relationship in college. And I

remember hearing, you need to get help. You need to get support. And it was this very authoritative

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