I have never met Rosario in person, but we share a connection. Back in 2016 when the Spanish version of my book Arroz and Pollo: Raising Bicultural Children was going to launch in a bookstore in Puerto Rico, I received an Instagram message from this Venezuelan psychologist that had just moved to Germany. She said she was reading the book and that it was giving her the strength and the hope she needed as she navigated her new life as an immigrant Latina in a new and very different culture. Fast forward to 2021, Rosario and I have remained friends. Speaking to her last week was like catching up with an old friend.
“Your book was my companion during those days. The adjustment was not easy. You gave me hope.”
Rosario is the perfect example that we can all learn a new language and adapt to a new country at any age. She spoke not a word of German when she moved to that country and now is fluent in that language. Rosario is the mother of two young children that is she is raising in Spanish and German.
I invite you to watch our IGTV in Spanish!
Rosario’s immigrant experience has taken her from Venezuela to Spain to Germany. She used her psychology degree to further her clinical knowledge, and she has built an amazing online therapy practice helping other immigrants adjust, understand, cope, and offering tools to families, couples, and individuals via private consults or workshops. Her mission is to help others deal with the emotional and mental health of the migrant experience. Rosario’s expertise includes the migratory process, cultural mourning, raising multicultural children, multicultural couples, maternity, multicultural teens, and how we reinforce the ties with our heritage culture at a distance.
3 tips for adjusting to the immigrant experience:
- Be patient. It is a process and it is ok to feel like you are mourning.
- Be resilient. There is personal and family growth happening.
- Be flexible- take it one day at a time.
- Be there for your children- they need your guidance, understanding, support through the process.
For more about Rosario visit her Instagram @Contratransferencia
Thank you, Rosario.
