We were lucky to catch up with Michelle Gomez recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Michelle, thanks for joining us today. So let’s jump to your mission – what’s the backstory behind how you developed the mission that drives your brand?

I help BIPOC/Latina femmes to heal their Mother Wound through ancestral wisdom, holistic life coaching, and spiritual mentorship. My goal in helping BIPOC/Latina femmes to heal their Mother Wound, is so that they can be liberated from their past and design a life of self-love, abundance, and freedom.

I created Healed Hijas®️ As a safe place for women in my community, to discuss their difficult relationships with their mothers, safely (meaning, without the judgment of mamas, tias, etc). In our culture, mothers are supposed to be respected and obeyed at all costs; regardless of how the (now adult) child feels about it. This cultural norm makes it difficult for adult daughters to have hard conversations with their Latina mothers, or to expect an explanation or an apology for traumatic experiences endured in childhood. for This unwavering demand for admiration and respect, leaves Latinas feeling wrong or inadequate when we don’t feel emotionally or spiritually connected and understood by our mamas.

With Tias, Abuelas, Madrinas and close family friends at times shaming adult daughters for having these sentiments toward their mothers (“No seas ingrata! No mas tienes una madre!”), these women had nowhere to turn to, to share their experiences openly, and begin the healing process in a safe place. This has been my mission ever since launching Healed Hijas®️; to create a container where women in our community can express themselves openly, connect to each others’ stories, get access to information that will help their healing process , and be guided through modalities rooted in ancestral, wisdom, and spirituality towards their ultimate healing and liberation.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My name is Michelle Gomez, and I am a spiritual life coach, author, mother wound healing conduit, wife, mom, daughter, sister and friend. In years prior, I was mostly known as a very polished and successful business professional, keynote speaker, academic, and CEO of a career coaching firm. All was well, until I realized that with all of my accomplishments, I was still plagued with anger and sadness from the deep wounds I carried in my body, mind and spirit from my childhood.

As a Latina/BIPOC femme, our culture has been slow to normalize mental health, open dialogue, and accountability for the way we raise our daughters. To question your childhood and call out the things that caused you pain, frustration, confusion or anger – was to be shut down as disrespectful. How dare we question our Mamas, right? But keeping quiet and pretending that I was fine – wasn’t helping. In fact, it led me to overwork, overcommit, overextend myself in the pursuit of acceptance from the world. And so, I attempted to heal in secret. During my healing path, I learned about the Mother Wound and how it affects women well into their adult years. I saw a lot of myself in what I read, learned, and processed. While I found a lot of contributors to the Mother Wound topic, and their offerings, I didn’t find a safe space for a Latina/BIPOC women like myself, to go and heal this wound with the support of my fellow hermanas. By 2019, all of the therapists, coaches, and contributors I had worked with or followed, were all non-Latinx. And so, I stepped up, shared my story and created the space that was needed in our community: Healed Hijas.

I bring with me 11 years of experience in my own healing journey, and also add the beauty of our culture, our ancestors, and all of divine source to support you through your own healing experience. To heal the mother wound is to find freedom, your own identity, and your own path to the version of your higher self: The Guerrera, The Warrior Woman within.

I offer digital offerings you can learn from at your own pace, retreats, 1:1 coaching services, and soon I will be launching my first group coaching course offerings. Coming soon!

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

When I first started my company, Michelle Gomez, Coaching, LLC I started out as a career coach. Having built a very successful corporate career as a first-Gen Latina. Through my academic accomplishments, and My strategic career moves; I was able to create a name for myself in the logistics industry. This industry was very male-dominated for a long time, and I was ready to see more women in positions of power and influence. I was tired of being the only woman and person of color, having a “seat at the table”. So, I wrote my first book and then launched into coaching women towards their own professional career goals.

Always well until the winter of 2019 when I realized it was time to talk about my mother wound. I had already spoken about my absent father, and how addiction had played a role in destroying the men in my family. But, I was ready to talk about the years of therapy and coaching I had been pursuing behind the scenes to address my mother wound. Having had a difficult relationship with my mother, I knew it was time to face this head on – so I did, and I shared my journey with my online community and my email subscribers. To my surprise, I received responses from other women with their own stories of deep mother wounds that needed healing.

It was then that I knew I needed to pivot my business away from career coaching and instead focus on helping my fellow sisters heal from this wound by sharing what I had learned up to that point. I was worried that the pivot would confuse people, or cost me followers. But, it felt real and authentic so I knew it was the right decision. I made the pivot, rebranded myself and my company and never looked back.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

For so long, I thought I was in the wrong for feeling how I felt when it came to my relationship with my mother. I blamed her so much for my pain, and was so angry with her for a very long time. I took much of the trauma from my childhood as her failure to be the mother I needed. The protector I needed. I blamed her for the hurt caused by others in my life, because I had been programmed with the idea that mothers should know it all, do it all, be it all.

I worked with therapist, life, coaches, native, healers, and plant medicine along my 11 year healing journey so far. Learning how to work with karmic energy healing as a modality has been a game changer for me and my clients. I am so proud to say that my relationship with my mother is so much better today, and as a result, my relationship to myself and other women around me has improved drastically.

I was once afraid of connection, and would shy away from “sisterhood“ because I did not feel safe in feminine energy. Now, I can call myself a “safe woman” and my goal is to help women heal, so that they become “safe women” also. I never understood how much power my feminine energy had and how much I needed divine mother energy until I started down this path of healing. And now, I share it with other women, so that we can all be free from the generational curses of our past, and find power in our feminine connections again.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.michellemgomez.com/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/mgwarriorwoman?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg==
• TikTok: @mgwarriorwoman

Image Credits
MUA: https://instagram.com/cindys_airbrushglam?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg== Photographer: https://instagram.com/gus.mejia.arte?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg==