Welcome to REFUGIA

REFUGIA is my tending place.
Here, I offer musings from the heart—on healing, remembering, and reclaiming parts of ourselves often hidden beneath the surface.

If something here resonates…
If it gives you pause, or comfort, or language for what you’ve been feeling—
I’d be deeply grateful if you’d share it with someone who might need it too.

And if you’d like to walk alongside me more closely,
Subscribe to stay connected.
Your presence, your stories, and your support make this space what it is.

In kapwa,
Lana

(kapwa-seeing our shared humanity)

Who is it for?

Here, I share personal musings, reflections, poems, and practices that rise from the in-between moments: the liminal, the tender, the too-much, and the not-enough.

REFUGIA is for those who are navigating transitions—grief, illness, burnout, identity shifts, or simply the ache of becoming. It’s for those who are curious about healing, not just as recovery, but as reconnection—to self, to others, to our ancestry, and the earth.

This space is for those who seek to:

• Embrace their healing journeys with compassion

• Explore the depths of self-awareness and presence

• Engage in practices that foster connection and self-fullness

• Reflect on the legacies they are living and creating

In this channel, you’ll find themes of:

• Healing as a daily practice, not a destination

• Self-fullness, as an act of resistance and renewal

• Legacy, not as what we leave behind, but how we choose to live now

• Presence, especially in the mess and magic of the everyday

• Kapwa and interconnection, holding space for our shared humanity

This is a space for soul-tending.
For remembering who you are beneath the masks.
For whispering truths back into the body.
For creating new myths of what it means to belong, to be well, to be whole.

If these words find you—welcome.
You are not alone in your becoming.

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