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The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed mental health professional and is not a substitute for psychological diagnosis or treatment.

I'm your host, Adriana Alejandra Alejandro, licensed marriage and family therapist.

Hello, everybody. Welcome back. I have missed you all so much. If you don't know me,

my name is Adriana Alejandra Alejandra and I'm the founder of Latinx Therapy. This is going to be

a trailer episode where I'm going to talk to you a little bit as to why I haven't been consistently publishing episodes,

so what's been going on in my personal life, what I've been up to in the professional life,

and what you can expect from the podcast.

Now, this setting isn't necessarily ideal for podcast recording.

I just want to give that as the first disclaimer.

I'm in my office right by San Fernando Road or Boulevard, and sometimes there are cars that are

speeding by, so you might hear some of that in the background, and I just want to apologize

in advance. This is the corner, the space where I felt the most comfortable.

This is my second time recording this.

I really found that it was important for me to feel just very comfortable because I am going

to talk about a lot of vulnerable things.

And with that comes disclaimer number two, which is that I am going to be talking about medical

trauma in this episode, very heavy things as it connects to my mom. And so if you have been following

me, you know that I have had a very, very difficult past year. Unfortunately, my mom passed away very suddenly

last September, and so I am bringing back my podcast in honor of my mom. I've been doing a lot of

projects in honor of my mom, and I'll talk a little bit about that. But with with that I do want to let you all know that yes

there's going to be some heavy heavy things that I'm going to be sharing here this is part of

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