by Coach Mauricio | Sep 17, 2025 | Blog
Hi there! It’s been an exciting start to my grad school journey at CSU East Bay. I am trying to balance being radically present each day with staying organized enough to show up on time and complete all these assignments, and still take care of my body and spirit with...
by Coach Mauricio | Jul 7, 2025 | Blog
This one is going to be relatively brief. I’m about half way through summer school! Yeah it’s only six weeks so it just zips by. One of the professors puts out a weekly email… 3 chapters of reading and assignments all due on the same day: “Don’t...
by Coach Mauricio | Jul 2, 2025 | Blog
I’m in the middle of online summer school now, and my brain is full! The two prerequisites I’m taking now through Contra Costa College for grad school in the Fall are Lifespan Development and Abnormal Psychology. I’m learning all kinds of things about the field of...
by Coach Mauricio | Jun 25, 2025 | Blog
We have some exciting announcements to share! I, Mauricio, recently completed the Trauma-Informed Weightlifting (TIWL) Certificate Program! I feel so grateful to have had the opportunity to join the cohort for 8 weeks, and met some really cool people who showed me how...
by Coach Mauricio | May 16, 2025 | Blog
We have just returned from our road trip across the southwestern US! I feel called to share about that experience, partly because it might be helpful to folks reading this, and also because I’m leaning into my capacity for storytelling and what it does for me. It’s...
by Coach Mauricio | Oct 7, 2024 | Blog
Tap the photo to watch the video or click this link What are the Physical Activity Guidelines? Simply put, the guidelines state that based on the body of scientific research, an exercise practice that reduces risk of chronic disease and promotes long-term...
by Coach Mauricio | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog
Tap the photo to watch the video or click this link The Physical Activity Guidelines are the foundation for all exercise and long-term health goals you may have. If you are exercising at all, you are probably at least partly meeting the guidelines. I’ll provide the...
by Coach Mauricio | Sep 23, 2024 | Blog
Tap the photo to watch the Instagram video Intersectionality is a theoretical perspective which describes the ways in which compounded systems of oppression work together at multiple levels of society to perpetuate inequalities. According to Kimberlé Crenshaw who...
by Coach Mauricio | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog
Tap the photo to watch the Instagram video There is an interesting conversation to be had about the subjectivity of the human experience, and when it is helpful to rely on your unique subjective experience to guide things versus relying on more apparently objective...
by Coach Mauricio | Sep 9, 2024 | Blog
It’s been a while since we’ve blogged! But since we have recently started creating more content to reach and help people with our best trauma-informed + evidence-based knowledge on our social channels, we thought it would be nice to share some of them with...
