Compartiendo Esperanza: Focusing on Spanish Heritage and Cultural Paradigms with special guest Tatiana Gonzalez Advocacy and State Program Director of NAMI
This is a 4-week series dedicated to cultivating awareness around challenging conversations within the LatinX and Hispanic communities that have created a pandemic of mental health obstacles, silent suffering, depression, domestic abuse, substance abuse, and suicide.
See the First Episode Here with special guest Tatiana Gonzalez, Advocacy and State Program Director of NAMI, (National Alliance on Mental Health)
Are you Hispanic/Latinx? Fill out this Google Form to see how we can provide additional support for your mental health.
“I really felt I’m about to Die.” Tatiana Gonzalez said as she shared her story so bravely with communities worldwide, to illuminate the silence that one suffers with when living with and through mental health challenges. Watch the live interview here.
In the midst of a pandemic, beneath the surface are many more within pockets of nations across the globe that goes avoided, undetected, or carelessly neglected. Like a volcano, the heat will ultimately rise, and the lava will spill out impacting everything around it.
LatinX and Hispanic communities have suffered in silence while witnessing the careless neglect of leaders responding to pipelines running through sacred Native Lands, Black Lives Matter, Police Brutality, LGBTQUI+, Asian Hate, BIPOC, COVID-19, and the newly anticipated Mental Health crisis we are about to enter. (The lava impacting everything around it)
The resilience holding LatinX and Hispanic communities back from speaking up, while at the same time, silently trying to cope and do something about it.
Reading that may have triggered just a ripple of stress alone. Within smaller communities, home-life has also become uncomfortable, unsafe, and divided. What one once celebrated as freedom, has become uncertain. The only true celebration of freedom is the freedom to liberate oneself from suffering in silence.
Mental Health is at an all-time high, and it is projected to increase over the next 5yrs. We have not even made it to the “aftermath” of global trauma.
LatinX, Hispanic, and BIPOC communities have had little to no access to resources to support them and their families’ well-being during these challenging and transformational times. Like mentioned, many are afraid to speak up due to barriers such as Language, Poverty, and Health Insurance, Legal Status, Acculturation, and Stigma.
This is time to turn that resilience into the power of nurturing your individuality. Be proud of your countries, your nations, and what makes you, YOU. Celebrando Libertad means celebrating freedom. You are who adds flavor and charisma to the mundane. From food, language, and love, it is the LatinX and Hispanic communities that are admired for their flare.
The stigmas that are faced within the LatinX and Hispanic communities tend to suppress individuals from experiencing this freedom. Tatiana provides resources to support you in advocating for your freedom, your mental well-being, and the transformation to enlighten yourself by removing the weight of fear, judgment, and isolation.
Here are a few resources to support you:
Latinx Therapy: https://latinxtherapy.com/
The American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry: https://www.americansocietyhispanicpsychiatry.com/
NAMI’s Compartiendo Esperanza: https://www.nami.org/Support-Education/Mental-Health-Education/NAMI-Compartiendo-Esperanza-Mental-Wellness-in-the-Latinx-Community?gclid=Cj0KCQiAsqOMBhDFARIsAFBTN3ftEVsg8CEk98sNX0EZQfoIjT3yfV2yHhZXjgmf66YlRzYBu1_6A3gaAoaPEALw_wcB
NAMI Page: nami.org
NAMI Louisiana: namilouisiana.org
225-291-6262 or info@namilouisiana.org
Mental Health America: https://www.mhanational.org/issues/latinxhispanic-communities-and-mental-health
NAMI Louisiana and Jai Bhakti Yoga is excited to announce our first Compartiendo
Esperanza discussion on November 8th at 9:30 A.M. on Instagram Live. You can watch by following at @jaibhaktiyoga and @namilouisiana on Instagram. Facilitators Tatiana Gonzalez and Christina Andrini will discuss mental health in the Hispanic/Latinx community.
Are you Hispanic/Latinx?
Fill out this Google Form to see how we can provide additional support for your mental health.
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