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CHANCLA

With cultural depth and emotional clarity, Leslie Priscilla offers both insight and practical pathways for breaking cycles of fear and building families rooted in safety and connection.

Chancla is a vital resource for anyone committed to healing patterns of generational violence.”

— Dr. Mariel Buqué

Bestselling author of Break the Cycle

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With Chancla, Leslie Priscilla does what few have been willing to do: she names the harm that lives inside the love we were raised with, and she does it without betraying our culture or our families. This book is both tender and unflinching, rooted in lived experience and
years of work with Latine families who are choosing a different path for their children.“

— ANA FLORES

Founder of We All Grow Latina Network

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If you are one of the brave few who pursue the most revolutionary path anyone can walk - parenting children filled with the beauty of their culture and free from its shackles - then you cannot travel alone. You must allow
Leslie Priscilla to be your guide. She’s the one and Chancla - this soul stirring, heart healing, world changing book - is the map.”

— Glennon Doyle

Bestselling author of Untamed, activist and producer

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CHANCLA is a reclamation. It is a powerful and necessary offering which uplifts one of the most oppressed and bypassed groups: our children & youth. With honesty, cultural reverence, and deep compassion, Leslie Priscilla names what so many of us have lived but rarely had language for — the inherited patterns of harm shaped by survival, migration, and colonization, and the possibility of choosing something different.”

— Dr. Jennifer Mullan

Bestselling author of Decolonizing Therapy

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CHANCLA is a deeply heart-opening and powerful invitation to transform the way we love our children, ourselves, and our culture. Leslie Priscilla’s work is profound, sacred, and truly essential as the Latinx community continues healing from inherited
historical, generational, systemic, and colonial
wounds… Let us unlearn and disrupt the
legacies of Chancla Culture together.”

— Natalie Y. Gutiérrez

LMFT Trauma Clinician, author of The Pain
We Carry and The Pain We Carry Workbook

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Chancla is a vital reckoning for our times—a love letter to the Latine community that carries the weight of what we have inherited and what we can still change. While reading this book, I found myself in tears again and again, realizing that if my parents, grandparents and ancestors had had access to the wisdom of its pages, so much trauma could have been avoided.“

— Jean Guerrero

Author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller,
Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda

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Mixing the personal with analytical, laughter with tears, prose with diagrams, “Chancla” is more than a parenting or self-help book, it is a celebration of and challenge to
our beautiful Latinx culture.”

— GUSTAVO ARELLANO

LA Times Columnist and author of Taco USA:
How Mexican Food Conquered America

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As we ask how to heal from the continual violence of colonialism in our families and communities, this book is a guide to help us look deeply into ourselves to ask what it will take to become the cycle-breakers we long to be. Chancla is a trusting guide, full of stories, histories, and lessons for us to move forward within a heavy world.
May we lean in.”

— Kaitlin Curtice

Award-winning Potawatomi author &
Director of the Aki Institute

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Trauma doesn’t just live in our minds. It lives in our hands, our reflexes, our instincts as parents. In CHANCLA, Leslie Priscilla does the deep work of tracing how pain moves through generations and how we can interrupt it through embodied, cultural reclamation rather than through continued shame.
This book understands that healing our children begins with healing the body that raises them. This is essential reading.”

— Dr. Resmaa Menakem

NYT bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands

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Breaking cycles is hard work, but Leslie Priscilla makes it feel possible. This book is the guiding light I wish I’d had as a young mom, but I am so grateful my children will have it to guide theirs. An absolute gift
to Latinx parents everywhere.”

— Reyna Grande

Award-winning author of Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget

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I’m someone who was hit with a wooden paddle, and I also wrongly justified that corrective style for years. Finding Leslie’s work opened me up to dissect the ways that fear had become embedded and normalized as love in my household and many other homes. This book is a much needed contribution to the lexicon of breaking from generational trauma in Latine families.”

— Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

Author of For Brown Girls and founder of
Latina Rebels

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Leslie Priscilla powerfully reinvisions Chancla as a tool for healing and resistance. She shows readers how to redirect anger and inherited pain into action, healthy mutual care, and collective power to build a new parenting ideal or family ideals that challenges harmful traditions and channels energy towards liberation from real sources of oppression.“

— Soraya Chemalay

Award-winning journalist, essayist and author of All We Want is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy

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How many of us have made jokes about la chancla, not understanding the deep impact it has on our mental health and relationship to our children. Leslie Priscilla has written a beautiful book that captures and sees our cultura fully… our wounds, our warmth, and our capacity to heal generational cycles.”

— Yolanda Renteria

Licensed Professional Counselor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author of Attuned & Attached

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Leslie Priscilla bravely asks us to imagine a different future for our families and communities – one rooted
in healing, softness, and understanding instead of the old systems and rituals that continue to fail us.”

— Diane Guerrero

Actress, activist and bestselling author of “In the Country We Love: My Family Divided”

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Leslie Priscilla’s CHANCLA is about liberation— from the chains on our bodies to those on our spirits, minds, and emotions... Time to break the chains!”

— Luis J. Rodriguez

author of “Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times” and “From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys & Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer”

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For parents and caregivers looking
to heal their inner child, connect to culturally-affirming parenting skills, and break cycles with intention,
this book is made for you!”

— Adriana Alejandre

Trauma therapist, mental health speaker and podcaster, founder of Latinx Therapy

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Leslie Pricilla has written a text that gives voice and shape to the trauma that so many of us carry and offers tangible ways to break cycles of generational harm. CHANCLA has helped me parent my child and re-parent myself. Thank you."

— Erika Sanchez

Poet, novelist, and essayist, bestselling author of “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter”

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Leslie Priscilla’s CHANCLA is a powerful remembering of heart and dignity. This book calls us back to a way of parenting rooted in connected and respect.”

— Asha Frost

Indigenous Medicine Woman, author of “You Are the Medicine"

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CHANCLA is the book our families have been waiting for... A true gift for every parent doing the hard, sacred work of healing."

— Jazmine McCoy

PsyD, The Mom Psychologist

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CHANCLA invites us to receive the gifts of our ancestors with one hand, and with the other, to gently lay down the harm they could not name. This book is essential reading for all of us learning the work of parenting, whether we are raising children or tending to the wounded parts within ourselves still in need of healing."

— Kat Armas

Theologian, speaker, and author of "Abuelita Faith and Liturgies for Resisting Empire"

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CHANCLA is a revolution. There are books
that only come around once in a generation, watershed works that blow our minds, rearrange our cells, and show us a new way. CHANCLA is one... This is a book you'll keep at your bedside and give to friends and loved ones for decades to come.”

— Robyn Moreno

Curanderismo practitioner, author, life coach, Emmy-nominated TV host, and host of the podcast: Get Rooted with Robyn Moreno

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In this rich resource, Leslie Priscilla provides Latine families with culturally attuned, decolonial approaches to nonviolent parenting. This book of cultural wisdom helps to pave the way to ancestral healing, healthy family connections, and collective liberation.”

— Thema Bryant

PhD Psychologist and bestselling author of “Matters of the Heart: Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Those You Love"

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