Chancla Book

ABOUT LESLIE PRISCILLA

Leslie Priscilla is a Certified Parent Coach, Certified Family Life Educator, and the founder of Latinx Parenting, a bilingual organization reaching
hundreds of thousands of families through workshops, professional trainings, and advocacy rooted in children’s rights, nonviolence, and intergenerational healing. A first-generation Xicana mother of three based in Santa Ana, CA, Leslie has facilitated trainings for school districts, hospitals, universities, and community organizations across the country in both English and Spanish.

Her forthcoming book, Chancla: Healing Our Families, Ourselves, and Our Culture through Nonviolent Parenting, will be published by Little, Brown Spark (Hachette Book Group) August 18, 2026 and is currently available for pre-order.

ABOUT CHANCLA

Leslie’s debut book, CHANCLA, invites readers into a transformative conversation about what happens when love and fear coexist in the same household. Drawing on personal story, historical context, and years of facilitation with Latinx families, Leslie explores the roots of violence in Latino culture and offers a path forward grounded in connection, self-reflection, and ancestral healing. The book is for parents, educators, clinicians, and any adult ready to break cycles of harm while honoring who they come from.

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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 Grandmothers 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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