Empathy
I understand what you carry because I carried it too. Every story is heard without judgment and with the time it needs.
ROOTS
🧳 I lived it. Now I guide you.
YARIMA GARCÍA · MIGRATORY GRIEF COACH
I lived what today
I help you
heal.
I arrived in Brazil with one suitcase packed with dreams and another invisible suitcase — loaded with fears, losses, and unanswered questions. Nobody gave me a map. I had to draw it myself.
I am a certified personal and professional coach by the Brazilian Coaching Institute (IBC), with specializations in leadership, human rights, and human mobility. I trained in female leadership with ENAP in partnership with the IDB, in conflict mediation with SENAC São Paulo, and in the science of well-being with Yale University.
I volunteer at PROMIGRA — University Project at USP Law School — mentoring migrants and refugees in intercultural communication. I also volunteer at Bitita Imigrantes, focusing on Portuguese as a language of welcoming for immigrants.
All of this together — my story, my training, and my community — is what I poured into my methodology. And it is exactly what I place at your service.
I closed my suitcase.
And at last... I opened my life.
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The roots
There I packed my first suitcase: my family, my language, my background in heritage and communication. Everything I am began there.
- 2
The doorway out
Georgetown was the doorway. A country of passage, another language, and the certainty that the journey had only just begun.
- 3
The crossing
I crossed into Brazil by land. In one hand, a visible suitcase. In the other, an invisible one no one sees… and that's the one that weighs.
- 4
Starting from scratch
Another language, another rhythm, a grief no one was naming. I learned Portuguese, fell and got back up, and little by little understood what was happening to me.
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Traveling lighter
I am a migration grief mentor for Latina women. I accompany migrants as a volunteer at PROMIGRA (USP) and Bitita Imigrantes, and share stories on my podcast.
MY METHOD
The pillars of
my guidance.
What holds every process, every conversation, every step of the way.
Resilience
It's not about enduring more, but healing what hurts so you can grow again, rooted in this new land.
Connection
Building bridges between the woman you were and the one you're becoming, and with the people who make this place home.
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