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Things are buzzing around Powerful Latinas and I want to share with you all the upcoming exciting things we’ll be presenting, as well as opportunities for you to get involved!

For example, there are now six podcasts for free download on the site. Three of them are from a discussion I had with Elliott Lewis, author of Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, where he talks with us (during Black History Month!) about being biracial in this country.

The other three podcasts are from a discussion I had with Dr. Ana Nogales about relationship issues among Latino couples, what are common questions she’s seen in her practice, and what advice she has for Latina women.

So I’m sitting here thinking that the real reason we all care about intimacy, love, sexuality and all that stuff is really about the QUALITY of connection…

Thank you to all of you who responded to my questions earlier in the week. We all learn differently, and receive different messages and interpret them differently in our lives. Some of us are shy, some learn from our parents, our partners, and from the bad examples of others. These are just a few of the examples that people shared with me this past week.

I was talking to a friend of mine this past week about the immense amount of power we as women have and hold, and how often, as young women, we are not taught what to do with it or how to handle it. That attention we garner as young women from people who are romantically interested (or just physically attracted) is a heady drug… And we have this power for our use and access in every setting — at work, at school, in business functions, on the street, etc.

Well…Being… Mmmmm, let’s think about those two words and put a little pause between them as you read them to yourself: well… being…. Doesn’t that sound nice to you? It does to me. My being, my “ser,” who I am and what surrounds me is well, it’s good, it’s fine, I’m content, I’m happy. Those …

(Sing it now…) Let’s talk about sex, baby, let’s talk about you and me, let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that may be, let’s talk aBOUT sex… Ok, for those of y’all who remember the lyrics to the Salt n’ Pepa song above, you’ll recall how catchy the melody was. …

One of the saddest things I’ve seen is the inability to really allow ourselves to dream! Dr. Ana Nogales spoke of this in her work with women that sometimes, even as little girls, their imaginations have been so stifled that they have forgotten how to dream. However, if we learn to appreciate and see ourselves …

As we grow up, we have to learn how to mesh who we were as a young girl with who we become as young women.

As we grow, we receive certain messages about what kinds of behavior is acceptable and unacceptable and a set of values is assigned to each type of behavior. Interestingly, we learn all sorts of things about the world around us before we are able to evaluate whether the judgments of those around us really make …

A characteristics of “La Niña” is her desire to play and her sense of wonder over everything she sees, hears, smells, touches and tastes. The child appreciates all and has insatiable curiosity and a desire to learn. This sense of wonder and play is a marvelous thing – we love to view it in children, …