Content advisory: This episode explores deeply personal experiences of sexual trauma and assault. Please listen with care and give yourself grace.
In this episode of Amiga Handle Your Shit, Jackie Tapia sits down with Evelyn Gutierrez, transformational breathwork and integration coach, and founder of Beyond A Breath. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and Evelyn is not just talking about it; she has lived it, healed through it, and come out the other side with something unexpected: admiration for the younger version of herself who survived it.
But before we get to who Evelyn is today, we have to go back to where it all began; to a young girl who experienced something she did not have the words for, who told the truth when she finally could, and was told it never happened. That denial did not just hurt her. It dismantled her relationship with her own reality. After years of carrying the weight of sexual trauma, anxiety, and depression largely in silence, her body eventually began to break down. A toxic work environment and burnout became the unexpected turning point that led her to a retreat and to transformational breathwork, where everything began to shift.
In that breathwork room, everything shifted. For the first time, she looked at her younger self not with shame, but with awe, and what had long felt like guilt began to transform into something unexpected: a fierce, tender admiration for the girl who had endured so much. Driven by that transformation, she made a bold decision and walked away from a career in Human Resources to go all in on her calling.
Today, Evelyn guides women through their own healing using the very tool that freed her. She works with clients locally in the Whittier and La Habra area and virtually across the US and internationally.
Tune in to episode 279 of Amiga Handle Your Shit for a conversation about surviving in silence, reclaiming your truth, and the unexpected power of learning to breathe again.
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