Grieving, Growing, & Glowing with Gisela (and Friends)

Gisela K. Rosa
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I think for about a year or so, I wanted to have a space/platform to have conversations that sometimes can be described as ‘too’ taboo or ‘too’ much. These conversations I wanted to be based on topics/things that people don’t really talk about due to the uncomfortably or vulnerability or uncertainty about whatever it is. A year ago, I didn’t feel ready nor felt like I had the time to move forward with what I wanted so I held onto this little dream in the back of my mind. A very important person in my life told me maybe I wasn’t ready to step into my full power then but I’ve learned and grown so much since then that now it’s my time to shine. Meaning it feels like the perfect time to share my words and knowledge on important topics + passions to me and of course bringing the people closest to me and have them feature on this. Basically I wanted to have a space where I just talked cause I love to talk and go on rants, especially because so many ppl right after post-grad have no idea what they're gonna do (including me) and are learning to exist and just live and relax and all that and it's a journey and it can be a journey we go on together? This means taking about life before college, during college, after, childhood experiences, our family, our experiences with drugs/alcohol, our work environments, mental health, experiences as Black and Brown folks in LGBTQ community, realizations we’ve had, all of that. To my podcast Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela. I can’t wait to share this with y’all + have amazing features and just a space of conversation, vulnerability, uncomfortable talks, tears, laughs, and love. Stay tuned. A little queer, organizer, abolitionist, first Gen college grad, Afro-Latinx (really Black) girl from Harlem just wanna talk. Talk with her Friends.🌞💐🌷🌹🌛🌟🐝🐞🦋🇩🇴🏳️‍🌈🫶🏽

  1. Here we go again...the Gisela way.

    12/07/2025

    Here we go again...the Gisela way.

    It's been a little while since I released an episode but I decided that pouring into my baby makes me feel good and being able to talk through my experiences. My frontal lobe is fully developed (yay 25!) and so I had a lot of time to reflect leading up to 25 and the ending of 24. I recognize the vulnerability in sharing so much of my life and my experiences and it is a little scary but I genuinely enjoy doing it. I want to be more consistent and present and that means including loved ones again in the podcast and hopefully creating spaces to have bigger conversations. This episode is dedicated to realizations, self-shame, emotions, familial traits, uncomfortable conversations, mistakes, growth, grace, smalls wins, and all the little things in between. To Season 3. To Season 3, Episode 3. To more episodes. To more episodes with loved ones. To feelings our feelings and not letting them consume us. To Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends). Thank you for all the love, always, Thank you for supporting me. Thank you for all your kind words, encouragement, and love. I am so grateful. I am thankful beyond words. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 💐🤓💕💖💗💞💘🩷 Follow @gggwithgisela on Instagram to stay updated!

    56 min
  2. The Gisela Files....We are BACK!

    07/28/2025

    The Gisela Files....We are BACK!

    It has been a little over 5 months since my return and I have yet to post another episode so here I am to say I am back..for good (I think). I am trying to accept and understand that pouring into my podcast takes a lot especially as a navigate everything in my life but I love to talk. I love to talk about my experiences, my thought processes, the state of the world, the connections about everything that makes sense to me in my brain (in hopes it would make sense to other people), my growing pains, my mistakes, my accomplishments, everything. I am also learning that it is better to pour some water into the cup than to not pour into anything into the cup at all. This goes for my podcast but also my relationships in my life. A little goes a long way. Throughout this episode, I talk a little about what has happened in these last couple of months while also trying to highlight important conversations in the midst of my experiences. To Season 3. To Season 3, Episode 2. To more episodes. To pouring a little, cause it goes a long way. (We do not see the fruits the same day we plant the seeds). To Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends). Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for the love despite not being the most consistent with my podcast. Thank you for supporting me. I am so grateful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🦋💐💖 Follow @gggwithgisela on Instagram to stay updated!

    1h 4m
  3. The Return of Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends)

    02/27/2025

    The Return of Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends)

    WE ARE SO BACK! Using this picture because it is how I feel about posting after nearly TWO years. It's been a while, a long while. So much has occurred in my life over the past two years. I have spent a lot of time navigating the next stage of my life while also navigating the new roles and responsibilities that come with this new stage. Throughout the episode, I tried to highlight or pinpoint certain things that felt important to share while also trying to be mindful. I also emphasize growing pains a lot, because I am actively unlearning and re-learning new things about myself. Growing pains means facing you. Facing yourself is hard. In the midst of everything, I am trying to show up for my inner child and my adult self all in one. My growing pains throughout the past two years have taught me a lot and continue to do so. I'm grateful for the growing pains and the glowing pleasures constantly happening. I emphasize crying throughout the session as I got emotional and battling that shame I have with crying. I talk about my self-worth and where it is rooted in and what I am doing to change those things and remind myself I am loved for just being. And existing. I try to share as much as I could remember about what has happened in my life these past two years. I am so happy to be back and pour back into my baby. I told myself this would be the year I take my podcast serious and show it all the love it needs. I cannot wait to continue sharing about my experiences through the Gisela blues and continue having conversations with loved ones about our experiences and things that are important to us and even surrounding things related to the climate of the world right now. (This also goes back to things that are important to us because people are being affected). This means welcome to Season 3 (yes, yes I know Season 2 was only one episode it is okay). To Season 3. To more episodes. To showing up for my inner child + adult self. To the Growing Pains. To Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends). Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for checking in. Thank you for the love despite not being the most consistent with my podcast. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for supporting me. I am so grateful. Thank you for rocking with me. 🦋💐💖 Follow @gggwithgisela on Instagram to stay updated!

    50 min
  4. the Gisela blues part 5..(The beginning of Season 2)

    05/04/2023

    the Gisela blues part 5..(The beginning of Season 2)

    The next stage of my life has required me to do a lot of grieving. This episode is talking about the transition and the thoughts that have been coming up for me in regard to what is coming. A lot of it is being scared of the unknown but super excited for new experiences, new places, new friendships, new relationships, new everything. Realizing it is essential to take it with a grain of salt, but welcoming everything with open arms. The thought of the transition, moving on, moving away, and doing something new feels hard and difficult but I know it is something that is impossible. I wanted to share with you all just where I have been, where my mind is, where my heart is. This next step of my life feels so hard but also so essential to my growth and the person I am destined to be. The hard part is letting go. The grieving. But I am so excited about what is coming. To be a Dominican girl (an Afro-Latina) from Harlem about to take on the world of Alabama and show them how a Harlem girl does it. To Season 2. To the Gisela Blues. To the next stage. To Grieve the old and welcome the new. To Dr. Rosa in the making. To Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends). Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for checking in. Thank you for the love on this accomplishment but this next stage. Thank you for rocking with me. 🦋💐💖Follow @gggwithgisela on Instagram to stay updated!

    20 min
  5. Happy Birthday Papi

    02/09/2023

    Happy Birthday Papi

    In honor of papi's 65th birthday, I decided to talk about our relationship and what that looked like for me. I cried a lot in this episode because it was me expressing my thoughts and feelings about our father-daughter relationship. I talk about the absent parent, questioning how can I miss someone who was not even present. It is hard. This was hard. But it was important for me to talk about something that shapes a huge part of who I am and who I am working towards becoming, but also the trauma and heavy stuff that comes with working towards that and growing up. My relationship with my father was nothing that I wanted it to be, but I tried. I forgot to mention that I was always told to look for my father even when I felt as a child that was not my responsibility. Talking about our relationship can sometimes be really hard for me because I want to remember more of the good than the bad. I don't blame my father for how he showed up in my life, maybe he could not be the parent I wanted him to be. But I am grateful for the time that we spent, the love he was able to give me, and how much he reminded me that he loved me. Although there are parts of our relationship that caused trauma for me, I am overcoming and growing through those things. I love him because he is my dad. He is a part of the reason I exist today, and my mom always made sure to remind me of that. This episode is rough and emotional but I hope it can also be loving. To papi's 65th birthday, I wish you were here. I wish I could hear your voice one last time. I wish things were different. To our un-complete puzzle with so many missing pieces, I love you and I miss you. Felicidades mi angel. To hard conversations about our parents + our relationships with them. And the hard truth that comes with accepting who they are and the harm they have caused. To hard conversations about our parents who are no longer here. To our relationships with our parents that are un-complete puzzles with many missing pieces. To push through and involve and work on these relationships, if we feel this is something we want to do. To papi's 65th birthday, te amo viejito. To Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends). Thank you for the love. Thank you for your support. I feel loved and supported always. Follow @gggwithgisela on Instagram to stay updated! ❤️

    28 min
  6. Grieving Relationships + Friendships..(Part 2 + 3)

    01/06/2023

    Grieving Relationships + Friendships..(Part 2 + 3)

    This episode is part two AND three, of the mini-series I started with Jay. We talk about what it is like to grieve in both relationships and friendships even when those people are still here but those experiences/moments in our life die. How they made us feel, the parts that hurt, and whether are we willing to give those relationships/friendships a second chance. We went into this episode not so sure we wanted to talk or mention much about relationships because we both are not grieving relationships at this very moment in our lives. Briefly mentioning when we were grieving those relationships and how that felt. The heartache. The anxiety. The fear that came up with someone just waking up one day and just saying they have no feelings and having to respect those wishes despite not agreeing. We also took the time to just sit and think about how much those relationships changed our way of thinking in regard to our future relationships and even friendships. We jumped into talking about friendships that have fallen off and a lot of it is never any bad blood but just growing apart. Friendships we thought were gonna last forever just didn't land where we wanted them to. But acknowledging and accepting that, that is life. We grow apart and it doesn't mean, I don't have love or care for you just we got older. Maybe our lifestyles and our beliefs just changed. No longer fearful of letting people go. No longer fearful of leaving people where they are at. Throughout this episode, we talked about dream friendships and relationships. To Grieving Relationships + Friendships no matter how hard it can be. You can miss moments and experiences but that doesn't necessarily mean you have to reconvene with anyone. You are allowed to love people from afar. To Episode 9, Thank you, Jay. Thank you for returning to do this with me. Thank you for being a part of this with me. And to making new friends and having new relationships in the future. (dm him he wants to be friends @bootmanjay) To Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends). Thank you for the love. Thank you for your support. I feel loved and supported always. Follow @gggwithgisela on Instagram to stay updated! 🪴🌱🌞 ❤️

    1h 9m
  7. the Gisela blues part 4..(I'm back)

    12/27/2022

    the Gisela blues part 4..(I'm back)

    HIIIIIIIII...it has been quite a while (almost two months). This episode is dedicated to what my thought process has been like over this period of time. I try to be as honest as possible about moments and things that have changed me from being in my own world and enjoying my solitude. Some days are better than others, some days are harder than others. Bad days, moments, and experiences do not mean I have a bad life. Reminding myself and y'all that we are constantly evolving and changing and there is nothing wrong with that. Holiday griefs. Friendships. I want to emphasize the part where I talk about my relationship with my mom, communicating, expressing my emotions, and not holding them in. Creating and setting those boundaries. Not owing anyone anything. Even working on my delivery when speaking to people because that is also very important. I try to just say what has been on my mind these last few weeks and the growth I have seen in myself. To the sad and bad days. To taking care of YOU and YOUR needs. To constantly changing and evolving. To Growth. To Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends). Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for checking-in. Thank you for the love, always. Follow @gggwithgisela on Instagram to stay updated! 🪴🌱🌞🧡🦋💐

    53 min
  8. the Gisela blues part 3..(Cheers to 22)

    10/28/2022

    the Gisela blues part 3..(Cheers to 22)

    This episode is the Gisela blues part 3, I wanted to talk about what it meant for me to reach 22, to be 22. To everything I have accomplished before 22. To all the things that are yet to come. To the people in my life who inspire me and are chasing their dreams and do everything they said they wanted to do. I honestly felt this episode was me rambling and saying a whole lotta nothing but I felt myself emphasizing celebrating all of our accomplishments whether big or small. Especially when we've grown to brush them off and rush into the next goal or thing in our lives. It took being in my 6th year of therapy to understand and celebrate everything in my life. I talk a lot of reaching our potentials and doing things that are out of our comfort zone. We love comfortability because we feel safe. But sometimes comfortability does not help us grow or experience new things. In order to reach where we wanna be, we have to leave/give up some things and sometimes that in itself is just fear. Those uncomfortable or sad feelings we feel allow us to experience and see life differently. Stop worrying about step 1000 when you are only at step 10. Take it day by day but you'll figure things out when you get there. Please speak highly of yourself. Celebrate ALL your accomplishments. BIG OR SMALL. (Whatever that means to you). To episode 7, the Gisela blues part 3. Cheers to 22. Cheers to celebrating our accomplishments, Cheers to living. To Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela (and Friends. Thank you for all the birthday love.Thank you for all the love and support. in general. It means the world. Follow @gggwithgisela on Instagram to stay updated! 🎂🕸️🍄🌹❤️

    33 min
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I think for about a year or so, I wanted to have a space/platform to have conversations that sometimes can be described as ‘too’ taboo or ‘too’ much. These conversations I wanted to be based on topics/things that people don’t really talk about due to the uncomfortably or vulnerability or uncertainty about whatever it is. A year ago, I didn’t feel ready nor felt like I had the time to move forward with what I wanted so I held onto this little dream in the back of my mind. A very important person in my life told me maybe I wasn’t ready to step into my full power then but I’ve learned and grown so much since then that now it’s my time to shine. Meaning it feels like the perfect time to share my words and knowledge on important topics + passions to me and of course bringing the people closest to me and have them feature on this. Basically I wanted to have a space where I just talked cause I love to talk and go on rants, especially because so many ppl right after post-grad have no idea what they're gonna do (including me) and are learning to exist and just live and relax and all that and it's a journey and it can be a journey we go on together? This means taking about life before college, during college, after, childhood experiences, our family, our experiences with drugs/alcohol, our work environments, mental health, experiences as Black and Brown folks in LGBTQ community, realizations we’ve had, all of that. To my podcast Grieving, Growing, and Glowing with Gisela. I can’t wait to share this with y’all + have amazing features and just a space of conversation, vulnerability, uncomfortable talks, tears, laughs, and love. Stay tuned. A little queer, organizer, abolitionist, first Gen college grad, Afro-Latinx (really Black) girl from Harlem just wanna talk. Talk with her Friends.🌞💐🌷🌹🌛🌟🐝🐞🦋🇩🇴🏳️‍🌈🫶🏽

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