What does it really look like when healing begins? In this deeply personal reflection, licensed therapist Raquel Perez explores how emotional defenses soften through self-love, nervous system safety, and embodied awareness — and how healing often starts in the smallest moments of everyday life.

Old defenses don’t disappear by force — they soften when the body feels safe. In this guided meditation, licensed therapist Raquel Perez invites you to gently meet protective patterns with tenderness, grounding, and compassion. This practice supports nervous-system healing and integrates beautifully with therapy and ketamine-assisted therapy for those learning how to feel safe enough to receive love again.

Have you ever felt like love is something you have to earn? In this personal reflection, licensed therapist Raquel Perez shares a powerful inner child healing moment where love finally felt safe. Through gentle insight and embodied awareness, this piece explores how early wounds shape our relationship with love — and how safety within ourselves can begin to change everything.

If love has ever felt hard to receive — or if your heart has learned to stay guarded to feel safe — this inner child healing meditation offers a gentle place to begin. Guided by licensed therapist Raquel Perez, this practice focuses on creating safety in the body, meeting the inner child with compassion, and slowly letting love in without force. A tender, therapy-informed meditation for those ready to soften, reconnect, and remember that love is safe now.

After betrayal, heartbreak, or long-term disconnection, intimacy can feel confusing and unsafe — even when love is still present. In this article, therapist Raquel Perez explores how the body learns to protect, why desire disappears after hurt, and how trust and intimacy can be rebuilt through safety, attunement, and compassion.

After heartbreak or betrayal, our bodies often build walls to keep us safe. But over time, those same protections can block connection, intimacy, and trust. In this guided reflection, therapist Raquel Perez explores how trust lives in the body—not the mind—and how healing begins by creating safety within yourself. This meditation invites you to gently soften protective patterns, listen to your nervous system, and begin rebuilding trust at a pace that honors your lived experience.

For years, sex felt flat—not because something was wrong with my body, but because a part of me had learned it wasn’t safe to exist. In this piece, I explore how shame and silencing fracture our relationship to pleasure, and how reclaiming identity can gently restore intimacy, connection, and embodied joy.

Intimacy doesn’t disappear—it gets buried beneath stress, shame, trauma, and the survival strategies our bodies once needed. In this meditation-inspired blog, therapist Raquel Perez guides you through rebuilding emotional safety, reconnecting with your desire, and welcoming back the parts of you that learned to hide. This is a gentle, trauma-informed path toward healing intimacy, pleasure, and self-connection.

In this deeply personal reflection, Colorado therapist Raquel Perez explores the emotional, relational, and embodied experience of coming out — including healing shame, creating emotional safety, unlearning old beliefs, and finding supportive community. A grounding, trauma-informed perspective for anyone navigating LGBTQ+ identity and self-discovery.

Coming out isn’t just one moment — it’s a journey of returning to yourself. This guided meditation helps you slow down, create safety in your body, and explore what your coming out story might look like when written from truth, not fear.

When family doesn’t feel safe — especially during the holidays — it can awaken old wounds around belonging and identity. In this heartfelt reflection, therapist Raquel Perez shares her story of coming out at 39 and offers gentle, therapy-informed ways to create emotional safety, set boundaries, and find peace within yourself this season.

The holidays can bring both warmth and heaviness. This guided meditation by Colorado therapist Raquel Perez helps you ground into the earth, reconnect with your authentic self, and create boundaries that protect your peace—so you can move through the season with truth, presence, and self-love.

When conflict shows up in a relationship, it isn’t really about dishes or deadlines — it’s about safety.
Our bodies move into protection, our hearts close off, and connection starts to feel impossible.
But once you understand how your nervous system shapes your reactions, you can begin to rebuild safety — and from safety, connection naturally follows.

In this guided meditation for healing relationships, therapist Raquel Perez, LPC, helps you restore emotional safety, rebuild trust, and deepen intimacy. Perfect for couples seeking connection, this practice blends mindfulness, nervous system awareness, and compassion.

Mismatched sexual desire—when one partner wants sex more often than the other—is one of the most common issues couples face. But it doesn’t mean something is wrong with you or your relationship. In this post, Licensed Therapist Raquel Perez, LPC of Intima Couples and Sex Therapy explains why differences in libido happen, how emotional safety and stress affect desire, and what couples can do to reconnect with compassion and understanding. You’ll learn how to move beyond blame, communicate with curiosity, and rebuild intimacy in a way that feels safe, grounded, and real.

Desire is not something you have to perform or prove—it is a truth that lives within you. Whether it feels vibrant, quiet, or far away, your experience of desire is valid. In this guided therapy meditation, Your Desire Is Your Truth, you’ll be invited to slow down, release judgment, and create a safe inner space where every part of you belongs. This practice is designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften shame, and honor yourself exactly as you are.

Growing up Latina in a religious, conservative home, sex was not just unspoken—it was forbidden. The silence shaped my identity, fueling shame, confusion, and decades of disconnection from my body and desires. In this post, I share my personal story of healing, how shame impacts sexuality, and gentle tools to help you reclaim your voice, your pleasure, and your truth.

Shame around sex and pleasure runs deep—but it isn’t who you are. In this gentle meditation practice, you’ll learn how to meet shame with compassion, reconnect with your body, and reclaim your worthiness for intimacy and joy. Healing sexual shame begins with softness, curiosity, and the safety to come back home to yourself.

Fear doesn’t always look like panic—it often shows up as confusion, self-doubt, or a fog that leaves us feeling stuck and disconnected. In this post, Colorado therapist Raquel Perez shares how fear impacts the nervous system, why it clouds our clarity, and how creating emotional safety can gently open the path back to insight. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, depression, or relationship challenges, you’ll learn why safety is the foundation for healing and how therapy can help you find your way forward.

Fear doesn’t always appear as panic—sometimes it shows up as confusion, numbness, or feeling stuck. This therapy-informed guided meditation helps you release fear and create a sense of inner safety. By meeting fear with compassion, you can regain clarity, build self-awareness, and reconnect with your inner truth.