Hello, you can call me Yesi

The Story of Cardenales

I’ve always known I was meant to help others heal. As a child, I felt everything deeply the joy, the pain, the unspoken truths in a room. I was born in Mexico and raised in San Benito, Texas, in a space between cultures, sort of. Too sensitive for a world that didn’t know how to hold me, too Mexican for some, not Mexican enough for others , that often left me feeling like a misfit. Being neurodivergent only deepened that sense of otherness. I now understand that what once felt like isolation was actually the sacred soil for my calling.

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Today, I joke that I’ve become the person I needed when I was younger. That little girl, and the wisdom she carried, led me to create Cardenales Healing Center. The name and vision came to me through my spiritual practice. To me the cardinal is a guide, a messenger. In my life, it has been a symbol of purpose, roots, and returning to self. Cardenales is the manifestation of that return: a healing space grounded in cultural wisdom, soul work, and holistic care.

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At Cardenales Healing Center, we don’t just treat symptoms, we honor the soul. I combine evidence-based practices like EMDR, Play Therapy, and ASSYST Protocol with breathwork, mindfulness, and ancestral wisdom. I am trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming, and deeply committed to supporting first-generation, Latine, and spiritual individuals through the challenges of identity, trauma, belonging, and healing.

And this is just the beginning.

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In the near future, Cardenales will grow into a holistic retreat center that will serve as a homecoming for the mind, body, and spirit. A place where therapists, holistic psychiatrists, Chinese medicine doctors, yoga teachers, and plant medicine guides work together to support deep transformation. We will gather in community through sound baths, breathwork, hikes, and ceremony, all rooted in the sacred healing traditions of our ancestors.

Here, you are not alone. You are not too much. You are worthy of coming home to yourself.