To be able to help my children not be without, I used to leave the jobs where I was being harassed and I used to move on to other jobs where I thought I would not receive harassment. But, it seemed that all of them agreed to do the same thing....
Growth
He used to tell me “I want to share a little bit of my life with you. I’ve suffered a lot, I saw my mother suffer.” I said, “You’re repeating what I told you about my life or something like that.”
My Life
...what I have learned and want to share, is that the immigrant life journey offers us an opportunity to choose a bigger story, and claim the potential for learning-healing-transformation that we all have, because of our own history and life experience. This is inner work we have to do, an individual contribution to the collective good.
Healing Cultural Roots
I told her, “Miss, I don’t have any money to go there. It takes a lot of money to leave the country.”
Let’s Go to the States
Unbeknown to my father, I went to register for school. I went to register for school when I was ten years old, keeping it secret from my father.
Determined to Succeed
I have four daughters. My fears now are based on national statistics; one in four women will be assaulted. This is very scary to me. I have four daughters....
Healing in Progress
The woman who has made the most impact on my life is the woman with whom I spent the first weeks of my life. She is not my mother.