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🇵🇭 Filipino therapist using kapwa-based care
🪴Learning identity and healing nervous systems with stories

Licensed professional clinical counselor and licensed school counselor 

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09/17/2026

As we face the trend of pheromone maxxing, please talk to your children about personal hygiene.

Please teach your children about their bodies, their fluids, and their odors.

During lunch one day one of my cousins had an in depth conversation with my husband about bidet use and it was so telling how comfortable people are about discuss if hygiene practices.

It’s one of the reasons we moved.

Children in the USA are getting taught more and more in society to make synonyms with self care and sloth, but where that leads us is possible increase in mental health symptoms.

I can’t recommend enough to teach your kids how to form their hygiene routines at a young age. Because it’s all about prevention.

09/14/2026

I worked with children and adolescents in the US for 13 years. Ranging from special education classrooms, school counseling, and clinical counseling.

I watched over time the rapid decline of quality education in the places I worked at. You would have magnificent supportive teachers that weren't supported by the community, Parents who found education unimportant. Or you would have really supportive parents paired with teachers who were incredibly permissive and lax.

Here in the Philippines, one thing is very clear. Regardless where you are on the socioeconomic spectrum, everyone values access to education.

It is so refreshing.

But its got me thinking a lot.

What happens to a world power if they no longer prioritize building the strengths of their children? What type of world are they after?

Lots to ponder.

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09/08/2026

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09/07/2026

The cultural whiplash is a bit whiplashy.

Behind us is a country who is culturally accepting of normalizing sloth and poor hygiene for the children. And now we’re surrounded by families with live in Nannies (Yayas)

I got asked by a mom at school who is an immigrant to the Philippines what I think about the Yaya culture. We talked about how she felt obligated to get one because of the cultural expectations.

I told her, ask me a year from now.

We chose to move to the Philippines because the US culture for child-rearing is strange. One small example is teaching our kid to take a bath everyday was somehow viewed as excessive to other families at school.

Whether it was in school or in the clinic, parents would ask me how to address their kids’ low motivation or quickness to take a break or give up from simple tasks. But when I got to asking what expectations do you have for them at home? A lot of times, there were no expectations.

We have to remember our own childhood. Take time to remember how did you learn you what your liked, what you didn’t like, what you were good at, what you weren’t good at.

I hear about kids needing more sensory input, so parents buy toys marketed to fulfill sensory needs. But I ask, do these kids feel vegetables and fruits? Do they fold laundry to experience the textures of clothes? What about putting away the groceries, to lift things within their abilities?

People make money off of pathologizing children. The US healthcare system profits off of pathologizing children.

Now that I’m here, Filipinos talk about children na walang kusa. There’s a curiosity around maybe they need therapy or mental health services. I’m all about mental health advocacy. But when all obstacles are removed from a child, from a human development standpoint, that leaves no room to develop self-concept.

It’s our challenges, no matter what size, that helps shape who we are. So whether you’re watching this from the US or Philippines, give your kids things to do.

Teach them what it’s like to learn new things and

09/01/2026

It’s a long one.

A lot of you met me through book conventions last year, and this year I decided to split my bookstagram off of this account as I pointed this one more directly towards everyday wellness.

At this 6 month mark after transitioning out of the US, I can finally open up the baggage I’ve been carrying that helped fuel this decision to leave. Because it’s finally safe to open that wound and cut out the infection.

Reading El Filibusterismo for is really opening it up for me.

And truthfully, this is how Subtext came to be.

I wrote Subtext: A Bookish Bibliotherapy to share with others how I combined tenets of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), Narrative Therapy, and Bibliotherapy to help encourage healing through increased literacy.

Reading books is just another form of sitting in a circle to listen to eldest tell stories.

Subtext walks you through understanding the technical side of things.

I know it works because I haven’t promoted it much at all this year and I’ve made sales every month.

Some feelings and experiences are a lot.
Sometimes fiction reflects ourselves back to us better than therapists.

Designed to work with fantasy and fiction, not self help books.
Subtext: A Bookish Bibliotherapy helps teach skills learned in therapy settings using books you already plan to read.

08/23/2026

Had a little staycation on the first 3 day weekend of the school year.

Learning a lot about private school life after working for or with USA public schools for the past decade, it’s really interesting comparing approach to curriculum and student learning from an international school perspective.

Having worked at a school that claimed to be IB accredited, but behind the scenes it was in name only and not in quality of education, I’m intrigued to learn more about international school curricula.

08/21/2026

Ive really been thinking about this for a few months now, but i wasnt really sure how to start the conversation.

I think that women in the Philippines, Bulgaria, and Croatia get more choice to be feminine than in the USA.

I reflect on what working moms in the USA have to accomplish everyday just to skate by and I observe how a lot of other countries give women such a different experience.

From my observations, women in the USA have less of a choice in society. That we have to be able to do it all, because that is how that country teaches its society.

If you want to know more about the jeans, i was shocked the first time i went shopping in Bulgaria. The pockets were fullsize! Then i learned, theyre all like that outside the US.

featured jeans:

USA: white house black market, anthropologie

Bulgaria: reserved, Stradivarius

Philippines: Cotton On

Croatia: reserved

08/19/2026

It’s becoming vogue in therapy to talk about identity in terms of our intersectional cultures and roles.

But where does it all begin?

When we are children our parents lives shape and decide our environments, but we alone decide our responses.

When I talk identity with clients, I make sure to being up how decision making is a large part of defining our characteristics.

In the Filipino Mind by Leonardo N. Mercado, he writes “one can have kalayaan without kasarinlan, like when a person has lost his cultural identity, when he no longer knows who he is”

Meaning you can have freedom (kalayaan) without self reliance or independence (kasarinlan). You can’t truly be independent unless you know who you are.

We see this a lot now with all ages. As people become sheep to their algorithms it becomes easier to lose our independence under the guise of freedom.

Moving across the world and the books I’ve recently read has me reflecting on this:
When all we have is the Illusion of choice, we are not truly free to be ourselves.

Even more so, illnesses settle in when our kalooban (inner self) knows our sarili (self) and the choices we are forced to make in life don’t align with our kalooban, mawawala na ang ating kasarinlan. (We lose our independence/freedom) this separation of self is what causes our kaluluwa (soul) to roam and get lost. This can look like dissociation, panic, depression, inattentiveness, etc.

Hi, I’m a Filipino American LPCC that decided to leave our family life in the Wisconsin countryside for a life in the Philippines.

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08/14/2026

Lots of things being pondered here.

The strengths of Filipinos in having innate preventative skills to achieve wellness is so fun to observe. But part of that observation comes with fear as the education system here that trains clinical mental health professionals are rooted in colonial mentality.

I had a large focus on generational trauma and supported many clients and students through the impacts of colonization in their family history.

There’s a very worrisome observation of the role of education and how the resources pursued come from understanding of mental health from colonizer voices instead of sharing resources from researchers of mental health among nations also recovering from impacts of colonization.

I moved to what’s known as ‘the bayan’ it’s where my true hometown is. When people say Filipinos are resilient, as someone who studies behavior to teach clients skills to become resilient, the people of the bayan have all the skills people in the US pay people like me hundreds a session to teach them.

But the narrative the US sells is that the probinsyano are less than and that they need more. But that’s the thing about US capitalism and its colonial ways. They convince the colony that what they’re doing isn’t enough so that they can take something that’s natural and inherent to the people indigenous to that land repackage it and sell it back to them to further exploit the resources.

The things people in the US pay their therapists to teach them to do daily for ‘self-care’ is woven into everyday life here in the bayan. And it makes so much sense why we, the Filipino, are so resilient.

I have a lot to say. But these reels aren’t long enough.

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