When God And Therapy Are Both Okay
Latinx Therapy
Adriana Alejandre
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Yanira Peña, LMFT from Tustin, CA is one of our two season closers. We recorded this special episode on May 18th, 2019 LIVE in front of 70 people who attended our 1 year celebration in Los Angeles. This episode discusses the separation of religion, therapy and mental health. We review common misconceptions through her experience of being raised Catholic and now practicing Christianity. Yanira discloses a personal experience where she needed to embrace both religion and therapy. She uses both her professional and personal experience with this topic! We do want to advise that there is a trigger warning discussing miscarriage.
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Resources:
- Yanira Peña, Instagram: @nbcounselingtc_105 (https://www.nbcounselingtc.com)
- Find a Therapist: www.latinxtherapy.com/therapists
- Article for Loss & Grief in Pregnancy & Postpartum: https://www.postpartum.net/get-help/loss-grief-in-pregnancy-postpartum/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Latinx Therapy. |
| 0:04.8 | The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed |
| 0:09.3 | mental health professional and is not a substitute for psychological diagnosis or treatment. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm your host, Adriana Alejandra Alejandre, licensed marriage and family therapist. |
| 0:19.8 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:26.2 | This episode is a celebration of our first full year podcasting. |
| 0:31.2 | And when I first started, I didn't know my life would change this much very quickly within the year. |
| 0:32.8 | When I started, I was extremely shy and didn't even feel like my voice mattered. But through all of you, |
| 0:39.3 | I learned the power and storytelling and specifically owning my own voice. For example, this |
| 0:45.3 | weekend and spoke on a panel for HBO. I'm discussing mental health topics inspired by big |
| 0:52.1 | little lies for the We All Grow summit. I growing up I wouldn't have |
| 0:56.3 | ever thought that I would be given such opportunities. For that, I thank you for holding a safe |
| 1:02.3 | place for me to tell my story to you all episode by episode on Latinx therapy. Here are some stats |
| 1:09.3 | I want to share over the course of the year before we get |
| 1:12.8 | into our beautiful episode. The top 10 countries that listen to us are the United States, Canada, Mexico, |
| 1:19.0 | Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Europe, Spain, Colombia, China, and Germany. But we are heard in |
| 1:25.1 | over 112 countries. Over the last year, we have reached 161,541 downloads, |
| 1:33.7 | and have been featured in so many media sources. I named a few in the other episode, |
| 1:39.5 | Zia Lot Lopez's episodes. We truly couldn't have been here without you. We are a top chart global |
| 1:45.0 | podcast with 293 beautiful reviews. And if you haven't already done so, please rate and review us. |
| 1:52.3 | It helps to expose the podcast. And I am one of just very few Latina mental health |
| 1:58.2 | podcasters out there. So please, if you can, rate and review this |
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