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My Focus Areas

• Neurodivergent-affirming trauma recovery and emotional burnout
• Curanderismo and Mesoamerican healing
• Soul retrieval, ancestral remembrance, and spiritual abuse recovery
• Sexual reclamation and embodied sovereignty
• Relational healing including couples and family of origin
• Cosmologically and Spiritually Aligned Business Coaching

My Offerings

I offer multiple different types of services including 1:1 coaching, cohort courses, co-coaching sessions, and self-paced course content.

The Reclamation Journey: Fall 2026

Decolonized Sexual Healing: Release Purity Culture Shame, Reignite Body Sovereignty

The Reclamation Journey is a decolonized healing program that guides people, particularly Brown and Black individuals, through the release of purity culture shame, systemic trauma, and sexual imbalance using Indigenous Mexica wisdom and somatic practice. Through self-paced modules, ceremonial workshops, single-day retreats, and 1-on-1 coaching, you'll learn to reframe sexual energy as sacred life force, understand the impact of sexual harm, and restore unshakeable body sovereignty. From shame to soil—stop apologizing for your body and reclaim it as sacred territory.

The Sacred Cycle Mentorship: Now Accepting Applicants for 2027-2028 Cohort

Begins in March of each year - The Sacred Cycle is a year by year neurodivergent-affirming mentorship blending indigenous wisdom with somatic science to guide you from masking to authentic belonging. In a sturdy yet flexible community, we practice shadow work and ancestral reconnection to transform reactive patterns into "disciplined fierceness" while honoring your unique rhythms. If you're ready to stop chasing convenience and choose a life rooted in joy, softness, and true self-compassion, join us to heal deep wounds and become a good ancestor to yourself.

My Approach: Walking the Sacred Cycle

My core philosophy: You are already whole. Your healing is collective resistance. Heart cures heart.

We do not fix what is not broken. We clear the masks, adaptations, and maladaptive beliefs so your authentic self can emerge naturally. When people live through their inner fire and authenticity, the highest good for both individual and community emerges.

Personal healing cannot be separated from systemic harm. While many of us endure personal harm, there is collective harm that amplifies the ways in which our personal stories embody life. Capitalism, racism, purity culture, and ableism have taught us to approach ourselves and others from power-over rather than compassion. Reclaiming wholeness breaks that cycle and opens paths for marginalized bodies, especially brown and black.

I am not a detached expert. I bring my full presence to every session. Because I have walked this path myself, I know both the science and what it feels like to live inside it. My healed and healing heart meets yours where you are at with reverence and compassion.

How I hold space: My indigenous Mexica roots teach that everything moves in sacred seasons and circles. Healing is not a ladder we climb. It is a spiral we walk where body, mind, emotion, soul, and spirit are held together simultaneously. Nothing is treated in isolation.

• Science Meets Spirit From the Start. We learn how your brain creates survival habits and how your body stores old stories while we also practice sacred connection. The mechanics of your nervous system and the wisdom of your soul are honored at the same time.
• Sacred Soul Conversation (Platica). Our sessions are rooted in deep listening. Through platica, we build trust and safety. We let words land fully outside your body until stuck pain and perceptions can move. 
• Honoring Neurodivergence. Your unique wiring is valid. We do not try to make you neurotypical. We find the medicine in your difference.

Guiding Principles From My Own Values

• Agency and Autonomy — Your yes must be a true yes. No ultimatums. No dualistic choices. You choose your pace.
• Safety Over Speed — We build foundation before house. Trust moves at its own rhythm, not the speed of desire or urgency.
• Presence Over Problem-Solving — You need a witness, not a fixer. I will not turn your depth into my growth project.
• Authentic Relationship — Real connection includes the small stuff. Not performance audits or constant evaluation.
• Embodied Freedom — Your body is sovereign territory. Physical and emotional connection free from manipulation.
• Wholeness Over Perfection — There is no fixed version waiting. You are whole now in your mess, complexity, and contradictions.
• Power-With, Not Power-Over — Healing cannot pretend that race and power do not exist. I accept clients in this space who can sit with the weight of that truth without asking me to carry it for them or make it easier to bear.

The Outcome

When you remember your "First Fire", the spark inside you that was never masked, external motivation no longer feels necessary. You become your own sustaining force. Like a flower reaching for the sun, growth becomes a natural rhythm rather than a forced effort. You stop trying to engineer your way into wholeness and start living it, simply because you are finally allowing yourself to be exactly who you are.

My Bio & Journey

I am an earth-medicine luminario, ritualist, and sacred space holder who walks at the intersections of ancestral remembrance, neurodivergent inclusion, somatic science and embodied healing.

My journey began as a child dreaming of people growing into themselves like strawberries, rooted in the earth, soft toward themselves, and reaching for the sun. That vision was born in a life marred by sexual, spiritual, and emotional abuse that eventually manifested as autoimmune conditions and symptoms that baffled medical science. Driven by a fierce need to simply feel well enough to live, I studied the body relentlessly, its anatomy, its physiology, and the profound impact of trauma on physical systems. Yet somewhere along the way, I realized that true healing wasn't about fixing what was broken. I stopped trying to fix myself. Instead, I learned to accept myself, tend to my body's cues loyally, and love myself fiercely.

After decades of helping others decode their chronic physical mysteries while reclaiming my own stolen pieces through deep trauma work, I returned to my indigenous Mexica roots to weave together rigorous science with the ancient wisdom of curanderismo.

Today, I walk beside others not to engineer their transformation, but to help them remember what I had to learn the hard way: that you are already whole, and the journey home is one of gentle, tenacious tending and fierce self-love.

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Testimonials

“Over the past year, this mentorship has been a life-changing experience for me. Through coaching and its focus on authenticity—viewed through a decolonized lens—it has fostered profound growth and transformation in my life. When I first joined, I had no idea how much healing would occur within me. This experience has resonated deeply, giving language to what my body and spirit have always known, validating my truths, and guiding me to new self-discoveries. Equally important has been the powerful community built through this mentorship. As woman of color, it has been incredibly affirming to be part of a space where my identity, experiences, culture and perspectives are celebrated and uplifted. The connections I’ve made and the collective support have been a vital part of my healing and growth. I am forever grateful for this journey and the impact it has had on my life.” - Nicole

“Thank you Marisa for the work you put into building a cohort of disparate individuals with the common goal of being with our authentic selves. The books, articles and activities led to new learnings and practices. The monthly platicas helped bring together the wisdom of indigenous people with present practice to connect within ourselves, the community and our Mother Earth. I loved learning the elements of the Medicine Wheel in each direction. It was a gift of shared knowledge that I will hold sacred.” -Lisa

“My favorite experience from the class was relating with the others students and receiving validation of the superpowers of the neurodivergent mind. I learned so much from the materials and for once in my almost 50 years of life I was able to finally live. Unmasking and unmirroring gave me so much freedom. Introduction to indigenous living also allowed me to live in harmony with the 4 seasons and give myself grace for the growth cycle throughout the year. It's essential to flow rather them give into expectations of society.  Rest when it's time to rest and grow when it's time to grow.” -Amanda

“This year has been a gift to me as I have begun to unlearn westernized and colonial practices. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to learn about indigenous wisdom, and curanderismo. I feel in many ways that layers have been shed and I was able to experience my true self-no hiding, no shame. I met with my ancestors for the first time. I found such hope in the reminder of things that my white evangelical upbringing betrayed-that there is divinity within me. ” - Bethany