From June 23 to June 28, Puerto Rico celebrates attorneys and our work inside the legal profession.
This article is not about my work as an attorney. It’s about what I’ve discovered after 23 years of working as one in different legal dynamics. It’s about my hidden truths of a profession that’s misjudged, carries strong responsibilities, but is beautifully rewarding.
I hold my title with honor, as if it was yesterday that I graduated and started a career that has been a true rollercoaster. As I do now do with my holistic health coaching practice.
So here it goes…
They say healing requires letting go. But what happens when your body won’t?
When trauma isn’t just a memory, but a pattern of survival stored in your gut, your hands, your feet, how do you let go of something your body still holds as truth?
I love my career as an attorney and all the hats I wore along the way, but I also silenced myself in it for years. My voice, my beliefs, my truth took a backseat to politics, to safety, and to the fear of being misunderstood or misjudged. Even after choosing to leave those spaces, that silence still echoes through how I process success, how I interact with money, and how I carry the weight of conversations I never got to finish.
So no, I don’t believe in “letting go” as the only path to healing. I believe in honoring the body. I believe in listening to what still aches. And I believe in reclaiming my voice, not erasing what’s been lived.
I made the decision to shift into holistic health coaching after realizing I could no longer stay silent in a system that didn’t align with my values. I knew it was the right move, and yet my body still grieves, still dreams, still processes.
This isn’t resistance. It’s real. This is my nervous system catching up to a safer reality.
I learned from those experiences that I don’t want to pretend I’m grounded when I’m not. Because the truth is that when you work in demanding professions, you just keep going, get immersed in your work, and sometimes you forget yourself. And I want to keep recognizing the difference, because from a regulated state, I will always have access to truth, to clarity, and to my full capacity. And from there, I get to choose differently.
I choose to excel in my career, as an attorney and as a coach. I choose to tend to my body with care. Nourishing it with what it truly needs to feel resilient again —stress relief, whole nutrition, intentional movement, and deep recovery. Not rigid routines or restrictive habits, but practices rooted in regulation, rhythm, and restoration.
This is what I should’ve learned when I started my career as an attorney, but no one told me… Regulation first. Then truth. Then the next right thing.
It is what I help you with now as a coach. So you keep doing you at your work, in your profession. Because when the nervous system starts to feel safe, everything else begins to shift.
If you’re somewhere in this process too, navigating change, longing to be visible again, or wondering why your body still feels stuck, know that you’re not alone and you’re not behind. You’re evolving.
And maybe, like me, you’re not trying to let go. Maybe you’re trying to come home to yourself.
To your thriving health,
