Hi, I’m Cynthia Alonzo Perez, the founder of Rooted in Reflection. I believe in creating compassionate spaces to reconnect with your inner child with softness and curiousity.

I have a B.A. in Xicane/Latine Studies and my immigrant parents would lovingly joke to my college self "we are paying for your college for you to learn how to be Latina?". And they were kind of right, I was fascinated with the history of indigenous, Latino/a/e and Black lineages in the U.S. and committed myself to always evolve my learning to center where marginalized stories are not being told and seek them out.

I have a Masters in Social Work which has allowed me invaluable experience in the homes, hospital rooms, and educational meetings of a diverse decade of families and stories throughout Los Angeles. Working in the field as a home based social worker has given me perspectives and intimate conversations with people in their sacred spaces.

I have been a licensed therapist for over 14 years and in 2020 I found myself at odds with all my former roles. I credit inner child work and powerful meditations in my living room for the creation of the next 4 years that have led to a creation of a mental health resources in the form of a modern day radio show aka a podcast called Confetti All Around.

At Confetti All Around, healing is both an art and a science. We blend the latest research in psychology and epigenetics with personal stories and practical advice. Whether you’re dealing with the legacy of trauma, navigating your identity, or seeking a deeper connection with your roots, our podcast offers a compassionate, empowering space.

In 2021 I formed Rooted in Reflection and started hosting whimsical inner child spaces for intergenerational healing and play.

Our collaborative whimsical workshops create community connection.

Our educational workshops and platicas blend psychosocial science, epigenetics, and indigenous practices to understand polyvagal toning as our indigenous practices and sacred joy.

As a speaker I am able to collaborate on a sacred message and soften the guests with humor, brave vulnerability, and inner child charisma that allows us to connect to the shared topic. Researching a topic is important but delivering the information in a way that a diverse room of people can engage and connect to the information comes down to vitality and an embodied knowing of the theme.

Using whimsical imagery, polyvagal toning, intergenerational storytelling and energy healing , our time together will be memorable from brainstorming, to creative curation, to processing the event.

I have led over 16 virtual inner child groups, created 5 CEU courses rooted in indigenous healing and epigenetics, spoken at 5 universities, written and self-published 3 books and hosted over 25 local events in Los Angeles.

“We create soft space for epigenetic healing through nature, nostalgia and connection”.

WE SPECIALIZE IN THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

(all include storytelling, somatics and softness as our signature self)

"Inner Child Healing IS interGenerational Healing: Helping Clients Unlock Their Authentic Potential using Epigenetic Joy"

-- Using tools of reparenting our inner child, we learn the neuroscience behind why inner child healing requires compassion, vulnerability and expansive access to rest and play!

-- Learn how inner child healing IS in fact INTERGENERATIONAL HEALING

"Epigenetics & Marianismo in Latinidad: Using our ancestral knowing to heal legacy wounds"
-- Be in community for a discussion on how our Epigenetics moves us towards illness or empowerment.

-- This course considers the intergenerational experience and traumatic impacts of colonialism and patriarchy on mothers and how that impacts their connection with their children. This course is taught with a lens centered around the often unspoken impacts of Machismo in Latinidad.

"Healing Shame in my inner child: a decolonized somatic approach"

Increase Knowledge of the ways Capitalism and Colonialism have fostered shame in our nervous system and ways to honor our inner child authenticity. Client’s will understand their subconscious reactions and learn how to regulate their nervous system when feel shame from an inner child wound using self compassion and a decolonized approach to self acceptance.

--In this course, you will learn the neuroscience behind why our brain is wired for old patterns from childhood and how we can change our inner critic into a safe mentor for our Inner Child(ren).

-- We will learn how to incorporate Self Compassion as a scientifically proven way to calm your nervous system and create new pathways for joy and self-acceptance of your resilient & hopeful inner child. 

“Altars and Rituals: Creating Safe Spaces for Epigenetic Ancestral Healing”  This course considers the intergenerational experience and traumatic impacts of colonialism on the loss of cultural practices and the way we have coped with identity loss. This course presents ideas to create culturally impactful connections with client’s using ancestral wisdom from their lineage.

-- Increase the awareness of the effects of colonialism and stress on our nervous system.

-- Provide common language for clinicians to explain the cost to our wellness based on inherited Epigenetics and the benefits of it. 

-- Build connection through creating altars and rituals to provide mindfulness and structure. 

Resourcing for Inner Peace: Using Our Imagination to Create Softness

Gain tools to help clients create safe spaces within using guided imagery and meditation. Clinicians and Practitioners  will gain knowledge on ways clients can use resourcing and self compassion as a source of self-regulation and somatic healing. 

 -- Learn the neuroscience behind why our brain is wired for critical thoughts or danger cues and how we can change our inner critic into a safe mentor.

-- Learn how to resources and nature as a scientifically proven way to calm your nervous system and create new pathways for expansive creativity and self-acceptance.

Cynthia Perez, LCSW is a self-published author and well known Inner Child Hype Woman & 1st Gen visionary in Latino Mental Health. She is the host of the sweet as honey to your ear podcast Confetti All Around with guests sharing stories and tools for healing from intergenerational trauma with joy and inner resourcing.

In 2023, Cynthia was nominated “Visionary Therapist” by Latinx Therapy. Her framework platicas are bold, timely and shifting the paradigm in healing with softness. She is a dynamic speaker with well researched and compassionatly presented conversations.