Mente Blog
Learning at Mente: “Letter-Writing Workshop: Supporting Clients with Gender Affirming Care”
Some of the values we hold most dearly at Mente are Learning and Advocacy. Given the unrelenting oppression of our LGBTQI+ community, in particular the youth in Texas and Florida currently, we decided it was time to brush up on our letter writing skills to support...
Martha Stebbins-Aguiniga | Mar 9, 2022 | 1 min read
Eating Disorders Among BIPOC Women
“Melanin – which determines skin color in our bodies – does not protect from an eating disorder” – Marisol Perez, Ph.D. I wanted to study eating disorders among BIPOC communities in my nutrition graduate school studies. However, most of the research articles I...
Tara Cristobal-Rivera | Feb 18, 2022 | 4 min read
Brains and Butterflies: How Our Logo Came To Be
Isn’t it fascinating what we remember from our childhoods? The way in which a word or a sound, perhaps a change of temperature or a random circumstance can open the vault of our memories to allow us to reconnect to information stored within us? Something like this...
Martha Stebbins-Aguiniga | Feb 16, 2022 | 4 min read
Introducing Tara
Have you ever stopped mid-breath after reading a text? If yes, then I feel you. Deeply. Four years ago, I received a text from my dad stating he had a mild heart attack. And at that moment, I felt like the wind was knocked out of me. Thankfully, he recovered well...
Tara Cristobal-Rivera | Feb 8, 2022 | 3 min read
Mente’s Beginning
It feels unbelievable to me that, as I write this, I am preparing to talk about my business (My business?! Did I really do this?!) a journey that began a little over one year ago. People ask me sometimes about what my motivation was to open Mente, and how I decided...
Martha Stebbins-Aguiniga | Jan 27, 2022 | 3 min read
