- mari@mariposahealingpath.com
- Mon - Fri: 9:00 - 6:00
My name is Mari Peña, and my journey has been one of breaking cycles, healing wounds, and finding my way back home to myself.
I come from a migrant family, the youngest of six children. Every year, my parents traveled from Texas to Nebraska to work in the fields. As the “number six,” I often felt out of place, invisible, and unsure of my worth.
Like many raised in hardworking immigrant families, I learned early on to adapt, stay quiet, and not take up space.
Have you ever felt like you had to shrink yourself to belong?
Those beliefs became the silent foundation of my childhood and the roots of the patterns I later repeated.
At seventeen, longing for love, safety, and a place to belong, I married a man eleven years older than me.
I believed I was choosing freedom—a home of my own, stability, and the fairy-tale ending I had always imagined.
But instead, I stepped into a relationship where control replaced love, fear replaced safety, and my voice slowly disappeared.
I lost myself trying to become what someone else wanted me to be.
Have you ever given so much of yourself that you no longer recognized who you were becoming?
By twenty-two, with a young child in my arms and a heart full of fear, I made the hardest decision: I left.
I thought I was closing a painful chapter…
but unhealed wounds always find a way to repeat themselves.
Years later, I entered a second marriage that lasted eighteen years.
It took me years to recognize that I wasn’t choosing pain.
My wounds were choosing for me.
Have you noticed that the same story keeps returning in your life, even when everything around you looks different?
When I finally walked away, I left not just a relationship, but decades of patterns rooted in generational trauma patterns passed down quietly from one generation to the next.
After my second divorce, I moved to California with almost nothing.
And that is where I met the place that would help me rebuild my life: the mountains.
Hiking became my therapy, my release, my spiritual classroom.
I climbed with tears in my eyes and came down feeling lighter, as if every step carried away a piece of pain I no longer needed.
Do you have a place where you can finally breathe… and hear your own voice?
On those trails, I learned something no one had ever taught me:
If you want a different life, a different relationship, a different future, you have to choose yourself first.
And for the first time, I did.
During my healing, I met a man who showed me a new kind of love: patient, kind, grounded, and respectful.
But even then, my wounds whispered:
“You don’t deserve this.”
“Something this good won’t last.”
So I stepped away.
I told him, “I need to heal first.”
We spent more than a year apart.
That year changed my life.
Because for the first time:
I wasn’t healing to save a relationship.
I was healing to save myself.
Have you ever pushed away something good because deep down you didn’t believe you were worthy of it?
When we found our way back to each other, I realized something powerful:
I wasn’t returning as the same woman.
I was returning whole.
Today, we walk together consciously, with awareness and love, but what matters most is that I finally walk with myself.
Healing my own story opened my eyes to something more profound:
I wasn’t just healing for myself; I was breaking generational cycles.
The silence.
The survival mode.
The self-sacrifice.
The belief that love must hurt.
The patterns passed from parent to child without words.
Have you ever wondered whether the pain you carry is truly yours or something you inherited?
This is why I decided to become a Generational Trauma Coach to help others understand, break, and heal the patterns that shaped them.
Not from theory.
Not from textbooks.
But from lived experience, deep healing, and the wisdom that comes from walking through the fire and coming out transformed.
To guide women back home to themselves.
To help them recognize their wounds without shame.
To support them as they break the cycles they were never meant to carry.
To remind them that healing is not only possible, it is their birthright.
If my story resonates with you, it’s not a coincidence.
You are here because something inside you is ready for change.
Ready for healing.
Ready to stop repeating the same stories.
Ready to rise.
Your past does not define you.
Your wounds do not disqualify you.
And you do not have to walk this path alone.
Welcome to Mariposa Healing Path.
Welcome to the beginning of your transformation.
Welcome back to yourself.
