I’ve been in the void for a year. If I’m honest, it’s probably been closer to a year and a half.

I am only now emerging, and this wound is starting to scar - which is why I feel right finally putting these words down. 

The void is the in-between, the transition, the unknown. It is a place where you can’t see what’s next - but you might feel it.

You feel stuck, cloudy, unsure, uninspired. A void can come in any part of your life. I've lived them before and they're decidedly not fun. 

There was the void right before my ex husband and I decided to split. 

There was the void right before I moved to Miami from NYC after becoming a single mom. 

There was the void in the time right before I quit my job and start my business. 

On this particular occasion, this void settled squarely in my business.

It was my longest one to date.

At the same time, I have been living the most beautiful, loving, and magical time of...

My name is Gabriela, and I am a bruja. 

It is one of the truest things about me. I have known this about myself since I was a little girl. 

People have their own misconceptions and assumptions about what this word means. People who know me intimately are often also afraid for others' misconceptions and the assumptions when I say it out loud, when I claim it. 

The truth is, I'm tired of tip-toeing around it. As someone committed to helping women live their truth, it's time for me to own it fully and say it out loud. I know it starts in spaces like these.

That word "Bruja" to me, encompasses my connection to my divinity, a claiming of my spirituality on my terms and those of my lineage, a way of living and communing with the divine that is my Caribbean roots, that is my grandmothers and their villages of support, that owns the gifts we didn't dare speak of outside of the home, and the ones I am still discovering within myself.  

Because...

I've always been obsessed with the magic and energy in the physical. 

Altars. Feng Shui. Vision Boards. Sacred Objects. Sacred Spaces.

Everything physical around us, also has energy.

I've also been a pen and paper girl since I kept diaries as a young teen. Something in me has always known that when I write things down, there is power in that action.

Science tells us that when you write your goals down, you are 42% more likely to achieve them (Source: Inc.com).

As I studied energy work and magic, I would learn that words are spells after all. 

When I launched my business in 2014, I knew intuitively that my trusted pen and paper would be how I would go about setting intentions and organizing it all. 

I became the queen of the giant post-its. As a strategist, I was mapping out business plans, marketing strategies and content plans in massive post its for my clients for years (many still live in their walls years later!)

I always found comfort in...

There's a woman that I follow that you've probably heard me mention many times. Her name is Carolyn Elliott. I met her at a conference in the Spring of 2016, and I became an immediate fan.

She was bold, unapologetic, quirky AF and fully owning her self expression and authenticity. She introduced herself as a witch. 

I saw in her everything that was true and asleep in me. 

I soon took several of Carolyn's courses, In early 2017, in one of those courses, she asked us to say "I am the most powerful witch in the world." 

I was so triggered I stopped the course right there altogether. I was all...

"That's not true!"

"How could I say that?!"

"It's so presumptuous!"

"This is not for me."

My "brujaness" to me, is all about owning my wholeness, my purpose, and my connection to the divine - to Mother Earth, my ancestors, my guides and angels. Owning my path, my spiritual practices, honoring my own divinity. That owning has been a process. 

And the last four...