Dra. Amanda Perez, MD · Medicina familiar
Your abuela
wasn't wrong.
The tiredness sleep doesn't touch. The rage you swallowed for someone else. The fright that never quite left. English hands you one flat word for each of these, and your family had the right one all along.
In about ten minutes you'll have the real name for what your body is doing, and the research underneath it.
Las Palabras Que Cargamos is a free guide from a family-medicine doctor. Ten Spanish words English gets wrong, including susto, coraje, and cansada en el alma.
The guide lands right away, then Mía Era. No spam, no selling your email. Cancel anytime, palabra de doctora.
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Las Palabras Que Cargamos · 10 palabras
Here's what lands in your inbox.
Ten words your family handed you, and what English lost in the translation. Each one: the word English gets wrong, what is actually happening in your body, the research it comes from, and one thing you can do with it in five minutes.
And after? You stay in Mía Era: the words, the remedios, and the science underneath both, la ciencia de tu doctora, the science of your doctor, with more sazón.
El permiso · The permission
You don't need permission. Aquí está de todos modos, here it is anyway.
They taught you to aguantar, to endure. To put your body last. To confuse exhaustion with virtue. Mía Era is the opposite of la rutina, the routine: a permiso, a permission slip signed by a physician, to understand what your body is actually doing and to do something about it.
Te elijo. Ahora tú.
La doctora
Dra. Amanda Perez, MD
I grew up with the remedios too. The exhaustion, the numbness, the being told to aguantar, to just endure. There are real reasons for all of it. And real things you can do about it.
Board-certified family medicine physician (ABFM), with Mexican and Cheyenne roots. I spent years watching women like you leave the exam room with a papelito, a little slip of paper, and zero answers. Mía Era is what I would have told them if the system had ever given me the time.
Con más sazón, y esta vez, con tiempo. With more sazón, and this time, with time.
Empieza. Start your Mía era.
Your email. La primera carta, the first letter, today. The rest we build juntas, together.
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