We’re on our journey to building healthy habits! In partnership with Saborea Uno Hoy, this week we interview Malena Perdomo, a registered dietitian and Avocado Goodness Expert for Aguacates Frescos - Saborea Uno Hoy®.Join our conversation to learn more about ways to be proactive with your health and how avocados can help!
This week is all about feeling good inside and out! We got to chat with the amazing Dani Solorio, a renowned herbalist, Certified Nutrition Health Coach and founder of Compton Health Bar, a Holistic wellness space in Compton California. Dani's mission to bring Good to the Hood has become a movement that gives people in the community more access to Holistic practices to improve physical and emotional health. We talk about the ways that herbalism can help us deal with stress related issues as well as many other health issues affecting womxn today. Dani is a reminder to all of us that nature is there to nurture us inside and out.
More about Dani Solorio: Continuing the family traditions of generations of healers, Dani Solorio is a renowned herbalist and the founder of Compton Heath Bar, an holistic wellness space in Compton, California. She is also the residential herbalist for Telemundo’s Acceso Total.
Driven by her mission to bring health to the hood, Dani helps people reconnect to ancestral healing practices through her all-natural herbal remedies. She is at the forefront of the wellness movement in Compton, California, as well as for LGBTQIA+ and the Latinx community across the country.
Dani was born in Zacápu, Michoacán, Mexico and arrived in the United States at age six. As an undocumented student, Dani’s entreprenural journey began early when she realized that college was not an option. After working in warehouses and restaurants for years, she saved up enough money to open her first business, a small video store. As her business grew, so did her drive to open up one of the only natural medicine stores in Compton, California. Since 2012, Compton Health Bar has been nourishing the BIPOC community and celebrating traditional herbalism and healing practices.
Dani and her movement to make holistic health more accessible have been featured in a mini-documentary by BESE, along with dozens of features in CBS, PBS, Found/LA, Los Angeles Business Journal, Voyage LA, LatinX, and numerous podcasts.
This week on the show we have the co-founders of Latinx Parenting, Leslie Priscilla Arreola-Hillenbrand and Lizeth Toscano. Rooted in social justice, this bilingual organization curates parenting workshops for intergenerational families to practice nonviolence towards themselves, self reflection & connection and overall community wellness for every generation. We unpack the common traumas in our community, how it affects our parenting and explain terms like “Marianismo” and "Familismo” and more.
Before the interview, Bricia gives us an inside on her wild mom’s night out and the perfect unknown park in LA- don’t worry, we’ll share. Click here. Also, Paulina explains why she and her girls LOVED Captain Marvel.
How Latinx Parenting began
The importance of our community understanding brain development and trauma
The most common traumas Latinx parents are struggling with
How our traumas are manifesting in our parenting
Tips of creating boundaries with our parents/in-laws
The importance of being culturally relevant to both intergenerational immigrant and U.S. born Latinx families
You can get in contact with both Lizbeth & Leslie visit their website, www.latinxparenting.org or follow them on Instagram as, @LatinxParenting. You can also follow Lizeth on IG as @LizToscano & Leslie as @comadre.wellness.
For more information on their events, check them out here.
Lizeth’s book recommendations:
The Whole Child
Unconditional Parenting
Lizeth also recommends getting yourself some peppermint and breathe doTerra essential oils from @AceiteMama to fight off any colds! Also, Elderberry has been working wonders for her.
Leslie’s book recommendations:
Parenting with Pride- Latino Style
To add to Lizeth’s flu-fighting remedies, Bricia has concocted a special tea- Respiratory Blend from Wild Terra, chopped up ginger, 2 drops of doTerra lemon essential oil & crushed up zinc pill. She has been packing this lukewarm and sending Eddie off to school with it.
