Mariposa de Fuego: A Journey to Empowerment

My poems speak about my journey of life through my explorations, processing of uncomfortable feelings, and stories never told from my childhood to my adulthood in order to find my path of healing: Dismembering and taming my fears to find my cure. I took the decision to become conscious of all of my traumas after a strong period of depression after my father's death. I still have a long walk to go but now I am more conscious about it, so I can pursue my dream of owning myself. My journey goes through my processes; loss of friends in childhood, the influences of the life of women in my family on me, my feminism perspective, grief about my relationship with my father, my motherhood and being a Latina, as well as relationship issues and discovering what is what I am looking for in life. The book could not leave behind my native language, so there are sparks of Spanish all over the poems, and it contains my own artwork and also photography in collaboration. I hope you enjoy accompanying me in this bumpy journey.