As I said last week, I am almost positive most of you know Jeanette Borunda, at least in passing.
She was born and raised in the area, only leaving for college, which she completed in 2015. With a bachelor’s in both Fine Arts and English on top of being a licensed clinical social worker, Borunda has been in the mental health field for over 2 decades.
Her main motivation for all the things she does is a deep passion for the work she does to help our community, including helping to establish the local mobile crisis response team, to take some of the workload off police who aren’t trained to deal with people in a mental health crisis.
For transparency’s sake, I have known Borunda since about 2017, when we regularly attended the same gym. In that vein, the hat she wears is as a MixxedFit instructor, a very fun, faster-paced dance cardio format (which I’m also technically licensed in until I think May of this year).
I know probably the happiest part of my life was when I was able to be that active, going to MixxedFit, Zumba, and Buti yoga regularly. If I could have been going to therapy at that time too? I probably would have been unstoppable.
“The mind-body connection is so important because… if there’s trauma that we go through in our mind, it is portrayed through our body. The mind can dissociate from the body, and we want to be able to engage our body in order to get our mind-body connection back together, and solid, working as one,” she said, as to why these services in conjuction with therapy can be so helpful.
There is a lot of scientific evidence suggesting how good exercise is for the entire body. A lot, a lot, and I will vomit all over this blog on probably Sunday about it, just to give myself time to find it all again. I apologize for the wonky schedule this week. It most likely will happen again.
Until then,
Salud!
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