Diana Careaga

Fierce Cuban-American Mama, Step-Mama, early childhood advocate, brain development geek and truth seeker. Thoughts all my own.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

When we aren’t taught to understand, regulate, & process our emotions:

We eat them away, we drink them away, we sleep them away, we shop them away...

[Dr. Jen Wolkin | ADHD + Trauma Therapist @drjenwolkin]

Unresolved wounds from our childhood become our present day
relational difficulties.

When we are reactive in relationship, usually it’s our X-year old child who is triggered.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

The best gift we can give future generations is to stop raising them in fight or flight.

[Tiny Buddha @tinybuddha]

You can’t control how other people receive your energy. Anything you do or say gets filtered through the lens of whatever they are going through at the moment, which is not about you. Just keep doing your thing with as much integrity and love as possible." ~Nanea Hoffman⠀

[Diana Careaga @dcareaga10]

@vinnyvince555 @vinnyvince555, you are always my exception and chosen familia! ❤️

[Tiny Buddha @tinybuddha]

"You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back & observing things with logic... Breathe & allow things to pass." Unknown

If you're highly emotionally reactive, this might be why https://t.co/NJsTFNzPSP

[First 5 LA @First5LA]

There is pain that goes beyond description and in all our hearts we are faced with the near impossibility of processing the truth that yesterday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, at least 19 children and two teachers have lost their lives to gun violence.

[Diana Careaga @dcareaga10]

@vinnyvince555 Simple, yet always profound, therapeutic, funny and full of love... always grateful amigo! ❤

[Tiny Buddha @tinybuddha]

"'But it made you stronger.' I was a child. I didn't need to be stronger. I needed to be safe." ~Stacy Kaiser

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

Nonviolence is not passive.
Nonviolence is Love in Action.

[Tiny Buddha @tinybuddha]

Some days it’s about productivity and efficiency. Some days it’s about happiness and love. Some days it’s about hard work and progression. Some days it’s about all of the above. Some days it’s simply about getting through the day...

[kemi @kemimarie]

babies are cute but people underestimate the challenges & what’s required of them as parents. babies challenge your emotional availability. they challenge any control or power you think you have. they challenge who you are & require you to heal & change, hopefully for the better.

[Leslie Priscilla - Latinx Parenting @latinxparenting]

Y’all need to STOP equating punishment/violence with discipline.

Punishment/violence teaches fear & distrust. It’s a short-term fix w/ long-term consequences.

True discipline is modeled by adults having the SELF-discipline to practice alternatives that have long-term benefits.

[Inner Practitioner @MindTendencies2]

Unlearning your own toxic patterns is the highest form of healing.

[Isabelle Hau @Volcoucou]

One of the (many) paradoxes in learning:

Teacher pay is lowest when child brain growth is highest.

[Diana Careaga @dcareaga10]

@vinnyvince555 This makes my heart full. So glad for you. And her. ♥️

[Diana Careaga @dcareaga10]

@vinnyvince555 Beautiful, good for him!! ❤️

[Tiny Buddha @tinybuddha]

I knew I was healing when:

I started responding rather than reacting.
I enjoyed alone time.
I saw my parents as people with their own unresolved trauma.
I set boundaries when people didn’t respect them, I knew they were clearing space for those who did...

~Dr. Nicole LePera