Valentine’s Day can hit differently.

Maybe you’re going through a breakup.

Maybe you’re grieving what could have been.

Maybe you’re in a relationship and still feeling lonely.

Or maybe you’re just tired of the pressure, the comparison, and the performative love all over social media.

In this episode of The Road Leads Back to Me, Coral shows up like your loving tia and gets honest about why Valentine’s Day can activate attachment wounds, grief loops, and shame narratives — especially in a dysregulated world.

She dives into:

• Why comparison is normal (and how to stop feeding it)

• How insecure attachment gets triggered around holidays

• The “coulda, woulda, shoulda” grief spiral

• Why there is nothing wrong with you

• What healthy, secure love actually feels like

• How to turn Valentine’s Day into a self-love reset

• Journal prompts to bring to therapy

• Nervous system regulation and emotional awareness

• Why gratitude changes everything

This episode is your reminder that you are worthy of respectful, reciprocal love — and that the road always leads back to you.

If this resonated, share it with someone who might need it and leave a comment about how you’re choosing yourself this Valentine’s Day.

💗 Because healing isn’t linear — but it is yours!

A new episode drops every week—another step on the road back to yourself, another moment to slow down, reflect, and choose healing. The Road Leads Back to Me is a space for honest conversations, emotional growth, mental wellness, and the kind of guidance that helps you navigate every twist, turn, and roadblock life places in your path.

Follow the journey and stay connected on all platforms: @TheRoadLeadsBackToMe for podcast updates and @CoralExplainsItAll for daily reflections, big-sister advice, and storytelling that meets you right where you are.

The road is long, but you never have to walk it alone.

Executive Produced by Pink Grove Agency

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In this episode of The Road Leads Back to Me, Coral dives headfirst into the emotional, cultural, and psychological impact of Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl—and why the backlash says far more about us than it does about him.

What starts as a reaction to a Super Bowl promo quickly unfolds into a deeper conversation about assimilation, identity, and the trauma many Latinos carry from being taught to stay quiet, stay small, and blend in. As a trauma specialist, millennial mom, and proud Puerto Rican-Cuban woman, Coral explores why Bad Bunny represents more than music—he represents repair, visibility, and permission to exist fully without muting who we are.

This episode touches on:

• The psychological toll of assimilation and inherited shame

• Why cultural music can be deeply regulating and healing

• How oppression repeats itself when we stop questioning what we’ve normalized

• The dangers of political and ideological extremes

• Why curiosity, reflection, and honest conversations matter right now

• How creativity, stimming, journaling, and music can help us cope

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Coral also unpacks Bad Bunny’s role as a cultural repair figure, the meaning behind songs like La Mudanza, and why representation—especially on the world’s biggest stage—matters so deeply to the nervous system, not just the culture.

This is a call to pause.

To clock what feels off.To ask yourself where your beliefs came from.
And to remember that the road—no matter how loud, confusing, or painful—always leads back to you.

If this episode brings something up for you, you’re not alone. Let the music move through you. Let curiosity replace shame. And give yourself grace.

✨ Mindful perreo encouraged.

A new episode drops every Wednesday—another step on the road back to yourself, another moment to slow down, reflect, and choose healing. The Road Leads Back to Me is a space for honest conversations, emotional growth, mental wellness, and the kind of guidance that helps you navigate every twist, turn, and roadblock life places in your path.

Follow the journey and stay connected on all platforms: @TheRoadLeadsBackToMe for podcast updates and @CoralExplainsItAll for daily reflections, big-sister advice, and storytelling that meets you right where you are.

The road is long, but you never have to walk it alone.

Executive Produced by Pink Grove Agency

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This episode marks a milestone — turning 40!

In this deeply personal birthday reflection, Coral looks ahead to the life she is building, the love walking beside her, and the voice she has learned to trust. A voice once shaky, now steady. A voice shaped by experience, courage, and the belief that it was always meant to heal.

Inspired by the wisdom of Ruth Bader Ginsburg — use your voice, even when it trembles — Coral reflects on what it means to grow stronger with time, to speak with intention, and to step fully into purpose in this next decade of life.

This isn’t a look back. It’s a declaration.

At 40, the road doesn’t end — it leads back to you.

A new episode drops every Wednesday—another step on the road back to yourself, another moment to slow down, reflect, and choose healing. The Road Leads Back to Me is a space for honest conversations, emotional growth, mental wellness, and the kind of guidance that helps you navigate every twist, turn, and roadblock life places in your path.

Follow the journey and stay connected on all platforms: @TheRoadLeadsBackToMe for podcast updates and @CoralExplainsItAll for daily reflections, big-sister advice, and storytelling that meets you right where you are.

The road is long, but you never have to walk it alone.

Executive Produced by Pink Grove Agency

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.