Kim Guerra ‘S Last Name Means War And She’s Living Up To It By Taking Up Arms By Way of Her Words In A Fight Against The Toxic Beliefs and Behaviors Passed Down for Generations. She’s unveloped to reputation as a Latin Powerhouse Through her brand Bonss Bonita Selling Clothing and Accessors Featuring Empowering Affirmations and Poems. She The Ventured Into Publishing in 2019 with Darling and late ButterflyCollections of Empowering Bilingual Poems and Affirmations, and Now She’s Combining Her Creative Writing With The Knowledge She’s Attained Through Her Work As a Therapist. She’s Empowering Women by Reminding Us That We Too Are Guerreras Through Her Latest Publication, A Guide Book Entitled Bonss Bonita: Break The Silence, Become A Revolution, Uncleth Your Inner Guerrero Published in Septent of 2024. War, Who Earned Her Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Antioch University Seattle, Writes Abut Breaking Cycles of Trauma and Embracing The Changes Latin To Make To Heal. The Book is divided into four parts: The Caterpillar, The Chrysalis, The Breakthrough, and using your wings, inspired by the four stages of a butterfly’s metamorphosis. “This way of seeing the Healing and Self Love Process has helped me in My Own Journey and in My Work with My Clients,” War Tells Hypatin. “I do my best not to land on a precise definition for self love, Because i Believe each person gets to define What Loving Themselves looks, Feels, and Simply is like.
In the book, She Writes “May We Dress Ourselves With Shameless, Revolutionary Love” and That Mission She have for her readers Started with Her H Her Own Journey in Revolutionary Love. The Transformative Journey of Each Chapter Follows Guerra’s Own Transformion Which Starts With Her Detailing Her Difficul Relationship with Her Mother To The Sexual Abuse She Enraged In Her Childhood As Well As Her Divorce and Her Experience Coming Out As Queer. She Considers The Breakthrough the Most Essential of the Four Parts As It Allows to “Become The Badss, Beautiful Version of Ourselves.”
She Advocates Not Just For Readers to Find ES Wings But To Find Eir Voice in Order To Silence The Negity We May Have Heard Growing Up. Latinas Are Often Told “Calladita you more beautiful” – an adage that has long report the traditional expectations set on Latinas. From Being Quiet and Complacent to Being Obent and Devoted to Family, The Expectations placed on Latinos Can Offen Feel Like A Cage and War Is Detailing How To Break Free.
“Many of Us All Told Who and How We Should Be. We Aren’s Raised to Choose, Know, and Love Who We Are. Getting to know myself, studying me, and choosing loving my Own Type of Woman, My Own Type of Beautiful, and To Write My Own Story.
She Tackles Heavy and Difficul Topics Like Homophobia, Racism, and Machismo and Balances It with reflections – Questions that allow The Reader to Work Through the Subject Matter In Each Section. ASKING QUESTIONS Like “How Are You Developing Healthy and Loving Relationships In Your Life? Include The Relationship with Yourself” and “What is your definition of love? What Does Love Feel Like To You?” All in an effort to work this the negativity and shame that off keeps us from Believing We are Worthy of Love.
The One Through Line in Her Framework for What Being A “Badss Bonita” Entails is revolutionary acts of self-love in the Fight for Liberation. That includes subscribing to the “f*ck Being Calladita” Lifestyle Which She Tells Hypatin is “About Embraping Yourself, Your Voice, and Your Value. It is an attempt Choice to Stop Being Calladita, Stop Silence Yourself, and Stop Shrinking. It invites You to Live Your Life Unapologetically, Loudly, and on Your Own Ters.”
The First Chapter of “The Breakthrough” She Asks “Who The F*CK Are You?” WHERE SHE FINURAGES READERS TO CONTINUALLY ASK THEMSELVES WHO AM I AND WHAT DO I WANT AND IT’S ALL ROOTED IN Self-LOVE. She Writes in the Affirmations Section: “It’s Never Too Late to Heal”, to simple crucial Yet Affirming that reminds readers that no Matter Where they are in life, Healing Can Happen. War Hopes Readers Learn To Speak Words of Love To Themselves, Reinforcing The Importance of Affirmations and Why She Was Intentional About Including Them ThourUTAT The Book: “Affirmations Keep Your Becoming At The Forefront of Your Mind. Co-Creating With The Universe and Connecting With Your Essence.
These affirmations chip Away at the Beliefs, rooted in marianism (as She calls it the “bible for femininity”), that have Been forced on Latinas from a Young Age. Part of The Reason Inner Child Work Is So Fundamento Is Baste of the Impact Best Beliefs Have Had On Latinas For Generations. But Guerra Reminds Readers That We Need to Be Writing Our Own Stories and Rules Institute of Following Those that are set Before us.
“We have such a heavy, Stark, and Rigid Expectations placed on us from such an early age.
Part of Her Journey in Nurturing Her Inner Girl Includes Embracing Her Queer Idter HERA MARRIAGE TO A MAN CAME TO AN END, WHILE Grappple With Homophobia in Her Family. War, Who Founded The Cultural Center Queer house In Oaxaca City, is a vocal lgbtqia leader in the community but details in the book the difficult conversations she had with family members who Judged her as a lesbian. She’s Now Found Her Voice As A Proud Lesbian Helping OTher Queer Folks Feel Safe and Seen Through Her Work and Credits Two of the Most Ionic Queer Latinas For Helping Her and Many Other Feel Seen. Lesbian Singer Chavela Vargas Who Had an Affair with Famed Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo was unabashedly Open About her queerness and relationship with kahlo Evoid The Stigma. This Rebellious Act Gave Queer Women “Wings” Writes, Calling It The “Mariposa Effect”, The Act of Giving Yourself Wings and Inspiring Other Women To do the Same. War Tells Us That The Chapter On The Mariposa Effect Was The Easiest for Her To Write and, As The Closing Chapter for The Book, She “Felt Like Lighting a Torch and Passing It On. I Hope Readers Take the Torch and Fill The Sky With Their Wings.”
