I’m aware that happiness is a feeling and like any other feeling it’s only momentarily.However, when I decided who I wanted to be when I grew up, I definitely knew I wanted to help others find happiness. This may sound cliche,but I believe that when one is happy everything else falls into place. Psychology has fascinated me ever since I was a teenager.The benefit of speaking to someone that is unbiased and is there to listen with the sole purpose of helping someone essentially find happiness and peace within, is precisely what I hope to do for the rest of my life. I once read a book called Time Cure by Psychologist Philip Zambardo and Clinicians Richard and Rosemary Sword . Where they showed a step by step process which proved that we can transform
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It became my safe haven until I graduated high school. When I decided to become a flight attendant. In 2008, I became the youngest flight attendant at Spirit Airlines . Flying gave me the opportunity to meet new people from all walks on earth and as excited as I was at 18 years old to get to travel all over the world, the amount of people I encountered that suffer from anxieties became alarming to me . Not to mention, the way many bandage their symptoms by self medicating and excessively drinking. My hopes to one day be in the mental health field grew immensely from there on. I started college in New Jersey, where I was based for a year. I returned to Florida and finished my A.A. at Miami Dade College. Right after, I joined a shelter called Miami Bridge that aid runaway teens. My job there was to shadow a psychologist and help counsel any teen who wish to speak to someone. I found great gratification in helping kids that were less fortunate than I was as a teen. Unfortunately, the program came to an end after 8 months,when the psychologist decided it was time for her to focus on her personal life . Later, I partnered with a flight attendant who had started her own foundation called kids for borders. Where she distributed anything from clothes and shoes to medicine and wheelchairs to the people of Santiago, D. R. Sadly, we ran into political corruption and it became financially impossible for us to continue helping there. Still, I never abandon my yoga practice and in 2011, I became a certified yoga instructor. I finished my A.A. And continued my education at Florida International University. I should mention that growing up in a Spanish speaking household, it’s incredibly important to me to cater to the Hispanic community of South Florida. Yet, my Spanish needed some work .In 2016, I finished my B. A. in Psychology with a minor in Spanish just after giving birth to twin girls in 2015. After focusing on my children for 1 1/2 I
It became my safe haven until I graduated high school. When I decided to become a flight attendant. In 2008, I became the youngest flight attendant at Spirit Airlines . Flying gave me the opportunity to meet new people from all walks on earth and as excited as I was at 18 years old to get to travel all over the world, the amount of people I encountered that suffer from anxieties became alarming to me . Not to mention, the way many bandage their symptoms by self medicating and excessively drinking. My hopes to one day be in the mental health field grew immensely from there on. I started college in New Jersey, where I was based for a year. I returned to Florida and finished my A.A. at Miami Dade College. Right after, I joined a shelter called Miami Bridge that aid runaway teens. My job there was to shadow a psychologist and help counsel any teen who wish to speak to someone. I found great gratification in helping kids that were less fortunate than I was as a teen. Unfortunately, the program came to an end after 8 months,when the psychologist decided it was time for her to focus on her personal life . Later, I partnered with a flight attendant who had started her own foundation called kids for borders. Where she distributed anything from clothes and shoes to medicine and wheelchairs to the people of Santiago, D. R. Sadly, we ran into political corruption and it became financially impossible for us to continue helping there. Still, I never abandon my yoga practice and in 2011, I became a certified yoga instructor. I finished my A.A. And continued my education at Florida International University. I should mention that growing up in a Spanish speaking household, it’s incredibly important to me to cater to the Hispanic community of South Florida. Yet, my Spanish needed some work .In 2016, I finished my B. A. in Psychology with a minor in Spanish just after giving birth to twin girls in 2015. After focusing on my children for 1 1/2 I