BuenQamino

12/30/2025

Some gifts arrive to stay.
Some arrive to teach.
Some arrive to set us free.🫶

As I am reflecting, and experiencing gratitude for so much of 2025, while still being challenged by certain aspects of the year, I choose to see it all as divine. And, I hope the same for you.

12/29/2025

There is so much messaging right now that suggests you need to fix, upgrade, optimize, or reinvent yourself in order to begin again. But winter tells a different story. Nature does not rush. Nothing blooms on command, or hurried. Yet, everything is accomplishes - Divine, as it is.

This New Year, you deserve to celebrate the moments that rarely make it onto a list…
✨The moments you chose yourself, even when it was uncomfortable or misunderstood.
✨The moments you listened to your body instead of overriding it.
✨The times you softened a pattern or released something that no longer aligned with your integrity.
✨The moments you stayed with deep feelings instead of rushing past them.
✨The times you said no, or said yes, not to please or prove, but because it felt true.
✨The ways you grew, even when the growth was invisible to anyone else.

You are allowed to enter this year unfinished. You are allowed to move forward without having everything defined. There is no rush to know what comes next.

Winter is a season of going within. Of integrating. Of letting your nervous system catch up to the changes you have already made. This is not a pause from growth. This is part of it.

You are enough as you are. And you are enough as you are becoming. You are exactly where you are meant to be.🫶🫶🫶

📝If you feel called, swipe through the prompts and take a few quiet moments to reflect. Not to set resolutions, but to notice. To honor. To begin within, and again, gently.


💕Let me know if something spoke to you from this. Love you.

12/17/2025

Pls tell me this is normal.

11/25/2025

I am honored that Business Insider and Jordan Pandy featured my story.
Leaving California to rebuild my health was one of the hardest and most important decisions of my life.
After years of Lyme disease, POTS, mast cell issues, and medical trauma, I needed an environment that supported real healing. First the desert in Joshua Tree gave me a clean and mold free space to stabilize. Later Portugal became the place where my nervous system could finally exhale and where my life began opening again in beautiful ways.
Thank you for sharing my journey and for helping bring more awareness to what people with complex chronic illness actually need in order to heal.
Read the full story here
https://www.businessinsider.com/left-california-better-healthcare-portugal-cheaper-2025-11

Therapist Christina Kantzavelos moved from California to Portugal. Healthcare there is cheaper, even when she pays out of pocket.

11/24/2025

I am honored that invited me to share my story and to talk about how much our environments shape our wellbeing. Our surroundings matter more than most people realize. They can hold us back or help us move forward.

Before I ever moved to Europe, I went to the desert because I needed a clean and mold free environment to recover. After years of Lyme disease, POTS, mast cell issues, and medical trauma, my body needed safety above everything else. .erimos gave me the first real sense of relief. It was an essential part of my journey.

As I healed a bit more but still felt something off, I became nomadic, searching for a place to truly belong. I returned to Central and South America for a time, then circled the world through Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Asia, Hawaii, and then back to California to plan my next steps.

Eventually, Southern Europe became the next chapter. Maybe because my roots and half of my family are here. Maybe because the food has fewer pesticides, is less processed, and has fewer triggers. Maybe because life moves at a pace that supports my nervous system. Maybe because Heathcare is a lot more affordable. Whatever the reason, I felt better almost immediately each time I visited. The shift in my quality of life was undeniable, and so was my decision to move.

In my interview with Jordan Pandy , I shared what it took to rebuild my life here, the grief of missing my family, friends, and Mexican food, the privilege that shaped my decisions, and the environments I chose to support my health and my work.

You can read the full interview here and it is also linked in my bio:
https://www.businessinsider.com/left-california-better-healthcare-portugal-cheaper-2025-11

I carry deep appreciation for every place and every person that helped me get here, including my own intuition and wisdom. Thank you. Love you ♥️

P.S. I felt ’s ‘Desclocado’ (aka a deep desire to return, “home”) was perfectly fitting for this one, especially after spending so much time on Ilha Madeira, where the bad is from.