Inside My Story
I was born and raised in Mexico, a shamanic land with a mixture of terracotta-copper colours, magical desert and rainforest, and exuberant green forests of magnetic beauty.
I grew up in a conservative, Mexican-Catalonian mixed culture and received a good upbringing in terms of education and social-cultural awareness. Raised in the Catholic religious way, I was early in rebelling against the set norms imposed by society and religious indoctrination.
From a young age, I was radical in my approach to life. As I grew up, I realised there was a whole world out there that didn’t correspond to my experience, more so in a country that is very limited in terms of social, political and economic resources, where people felt manipulated and gaslit by the social norms, the church or politics or witnessing violence, oppression or submission. I learn power dynamics at a very young age. I could not understand this and kept looking for answers I never found or that felt true to my heart. I was confused.
As a newly divorced woman with two young sons, I longed to travel the world to have my own experiences and life lessons. I wanted to live in a place where I could give my children what the wider world offers in terms of education, life experience, opportunities and how to stand strong.
My background is in languages and cross-cultural education. I created my first international school (MCCI) in 1995 and hosted international summer programmes for young people in Mexico. I was confident and determined, and manifestation was flowing.
I decided to listen to my calling and continue my journey to a new life.
After a few years of travelling, trying to rediscover my ground in a world that was very new to me, we landed in the UK, carrying my culture, my family and my personal history. Realising my upbringing and my personal limitations, and dealing with auto-exile, a brother with mental health challenges and all that correlates to a dysfunctional family confused, disoriented and with fear about mental health, all was a bit too much for me. I was angry at my family and my culture, all the imbalance on rich and poor around me and all the feminism theories kept me searching for answers concerned with disempowerment, abuse of power, intolerance and injustice at all levels. My wound was ripped open. My strong belief that education fights oppression and ignorance led me to leave Mexico behind to start in a new world, changed careers and pursue my MSc in transactional analysis psychotherapy and later on a range of transpersonal holistic therapies in the hope to finally “get it”.
Without realising it, I had just immersed myself in a journey of no return …
I have been travelling intensively for the last 25 years, living, working and experiencing 10 countries, and many cultures, nationalities and mentalities. At times for work, at times for survival, at times because I felt I had nowhere to go or how to start rooting myself, or how to start my integration back home. It has been a whole journey in itself.
I was initiated into the field of human sexuality and the relationship to self when my process led me to undertake and heal my deep personal traumas and limitations, and transform them through self-love and healing.
I believe learning to love oneself and others is the way forward; the key to a new way of living and learning how to be part of the new world. Because when we change, we grow; nothing is the same, everything evolves. There is a great fear of the new, of the unknown …
My life learnings ….
Evolution of Love and the programmes I offer are the result of my lifelong journey searching for independence, autonomy and healing. It’s the culmination of my quest for the right to be me – a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister – with my voice and the right to choose who I am and be completely my own person. I have reclaimed my sense of self while honouring motherhood by raising the best I could my two beautiful sons who struggled to understand their mum’s passionate, radical nature, travels and my choice to leave Mexico behind to start anew in a new world. We all had to endure the change and are still digesting the pain of leaving Mexico behind to make room for growing and adapting to a new way of living.
In my journey I have learnt about exploring the world, beginnings and endings, living and loving, and falling and rising up many times. I have touched base with my disabilities – dyslexia, ADHD and high sensitivity (HS). I had recovered from two near-death experiences and overcome complex PTSD, memory loss, severe burnout and trauma. I have learnt to survive adversity while surfing the tsunami of living and receiving life’s gifts. It has not been easy, and yet, it’s been worth living it for daring to live life on my own terms.
I also have learnt about shame and guilt, repairing and acknowledging, grieving, and accepting to live with the side effects of my choices.
Understanding my trauma has also made me understand the impact and the reboot effect in the people I love most. My pain and withdrawal led me to live alone in the Oslo fjords. For five years I healed my wounds and learnt the gift of the body’s ability to heal itself under the right conditions. I learnt to allow myself to receive the gift of healing from Mother Nature and to put everything I had learnt into practice. I had no choice but to listen to my body wisdom; I learnt ultimate surrender.
At this point, I met my inner shaman. I broke through the painful realisation of my childhood and upbringing, causing my hidden subconscious to fly far away so I could have the space to heal. It took 25 years to come to terms with my personal history, accepting the past and learning the meaning of self-love and nourishment.
I believe learning to love oneself and others is the way forward. It is the key to a new way of living and learning how to be part of the world. Because when we change, we grow – nothing is the same, everything evolves. There is a great fear of the new, the unknown … and transcending fear is where healing happens.
I stand now as a firm caretaker of Mother Earth and the restoration of female and male authentic natural power. In mutual love and co-creation, we can maintain a sustainable world through inclusion, harmony, integrity, responsibility and ownership. I believe in love, action, inner freedom and peace.
Evolution of Love programmes teach the essential nutrients for love and life – reframing boundaries, integrating the ego-shadow personality, reconnecting to essence qualities of the heart, and discovering the embodiment of love by learning to let go and fully live life.
A journey of self-discovery, responsibility and ownership and finally growing up and maturing as the adults we are.
I am passionate about teaching you how to discover your true essence, follow your calling and helping you to wake your way home to rediscover your roots.
It is my wish that Evolution of Love travels around the world, teaching, learning, and bringing in other cultures that enrich our capacity and human potential, to grow, connect and share life and healing, and in this transformational experience, discovering that we are all as unique and human as everyone else.
A whole journey in itself worth taking …
Uma