Santo Domingo.- Clinical psychologist Katherine Castro called for prioritizing emotional well-being, establishing healthy boundaries, and breaking family patterns that limit happiness. Among the recommended tools are meditation, prayer, journaling, adequate rest, and self-awareness, promoting a more conscious life focused on inner peace and self-love, in order to achieve the construction of a better society.
He indicated that emotional health, self-love, and childhood wounds that many women carry in silence, eventually become triggers that leave painful consequences, which is why it is necessary to confront these ills at an early age.
During the conference The Mental Power of Today’s Mother: Challenges and Challenges, given alongside the CEO of Madres Todo Terreno, Keidy Peña, at the Ministry of Agriculture on the occasion of the
Mothers’ Month, Castro explained how painful experiences lived from an early age generate “unconscious contracts” that end up affecting people’s self-esteem, relationships and emotional stability.
From her side, Keidy Peña considered that silence has become, in most cases, a risk factor for all those mothers who have been victims of their partners in the cases of femicides that today shake society, which is why it is necessary to unite wills to confront this evil that is already touching bottom in Dominican society.
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Katherine Castro pointed out that the impact of family patterns and unprocessed emotions in daily life often results in behaviors of anxiety, fear, rejection, need for approval, and emotional exhaustion.
“From there, emotional wounds are born that are carried from childhood and end up creating cycles of survival without awareness.”
“I say this from my own personal experience related to self-esteem issues and eating disorders. That emotional pain can affect mental and physical health when professional help is not sought, which is why it is very important to accept reality, make the unconscious conscious, and develop emotional intelligence to achieve well-being and inner balance.”
ALL-TERRAIN MOTHERS
During her presentation, Keidy Peña, CEO of the Madres Todo Terreno community, revealed that a woman from birth is like that seed when the planting stage begins because she comes from a mother, and then when she takes on that role she has to face multiple challenges and difficulties, since no harvest appears overnight.
“There are times when we feel buried under responsibilities, worries, emotions, anxiety, fear, and exhaustion, where we stop recognizing ourselves and think that our dreams have been paused, but we cannot give up.
We must find the strength to offer our best, to preserve what is most precious, which is life and family,” she assured.
She indicated that a woman is like that seed that is sown in silence, faces storms, resists the strong sun, goes through difficult times, but still blooms and bears fruit. “So is the life of many Dominican mothers: a constant struggle marked by sacrifices, challenges and infinite love.”
“Today we live in painful times. As a society we are shaken by femicides, by so many women we have lost at the hands of violence. As the Madres Todo Terreno community, I want to say to every woman, every mother, every daughter: do not give up, do not be silent, do not normalize abuse. Report it in time, seek help, speak out, because your life is worth too much. That is why our doors are open not only to listen to you, but to help you.”
The event was led by Minister Francisco Oliverio Espaillat; Vice Minister Herminia Reyes; Dr. Larissa Castillo; María Yolanda Espinal, from Human Resources; as well as dozens of female employees from the institution’s different departments.
