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Washington-Post-scaled.png) ![Univision](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Univision-scaled. png) ![US Weekly](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/US-Weekly-scaled. png) ![Telemundo](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Telemundo-scaled. png) ![romper](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/romper-scaled.png) ![New York Times](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/New-York- Times-scaled.png) ![Huffpost](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Huffpost-scaled. png) ![Fierce](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Fierce-scaled.png) ![Glamour](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Glamour-1-scaled. png) ![Good Morning America](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Good- Morning-America-scaled.png) ![Forbes](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Forbes-scaled.png) ![ET](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ET-scaled.png) ![Elle](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Elle-scaled.png) ![Scary Mommy](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Scary-Mommy- scaled.png) ![BuzzFeed](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BuzzFeed-1-scaled. png) ![abc News](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/abc-News-1-scaled. png) ![She Knows](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/She-Knows-scaled. png) ![HipLatina](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/HipLatina-scaled. png) ![People](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/People-scaled.png) ## 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. 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![MIT](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MIT-scaled.png) ![mijente](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mijente-scaled. png) ![LAUSD](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/LAUSD-scaled.png) ![Latino Network](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Latino- Network-scaled.png) ![LA Education Partnership](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/ 05/LA-Education-Partnership-scaled.png) ![Fullerton](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Fullerton-scaled. png) ![Gavilan College](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Gavilan- College-scaled.png) ![Innercity Struggle](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Innercity- Struggle-scaled.png) ![LatinxEd](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/LatinxEd-scaled. png) ![Revolución Educativa](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Revolucion- Educativa-scaled.png) ![Garden Grove](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Garden-Grove- scaled.png) ![Pepperdine U](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Pepperdine- U-scaled.png) ![Latino Health Access](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Latino- Health-Access-scaled.png) ![Institute of Child Psychology](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2026/05/Institute-of-Child-Psychology-scaled.png) ![El Nido](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/El-Nido-scaled. png) ![Anaheim Elementary](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Anaheim- Elementary-scaled.png) ![Mizzou](https://latinxparenting.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Mizzou-scaled.png) ## praise for⏎ CHANCLA ⌊Dr. Mariel Buqué⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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 “ 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 “ ⌊Ana Flores⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Glennon Doyle⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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 “ 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 “ ⌊Dr. Jennifer Mullan⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Natalie Gutierrez⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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 colonialwounds… Let us unlearn and disrupt thelegacies of Chancla Culture together.” — Natalie Y. Gutiérrez LMFT Trauma Clinician, author of The Pain We Carry and The Pain We Carry Workbook “ 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 “ ⌊Jean Guerrero⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Gustavo Arellano⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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 “ 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 “ ⌊Kaitlin Curtice⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Resmaa Menakem⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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 “ 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 “ ⌊Reyna Grand⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Prisca Dorcas⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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 “ 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 “ ⌊Soraya Chemalay⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Yolanda Renteria⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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 “ 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” “ ⌊Diane Guerrero⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Luis J. Rodriguez⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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” “ 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 “ ⌊Adriana Alejandre⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Erika Sanchez⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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” “ 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" “ ⌊Asha Frost⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Jazmine McCoy⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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 “ 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" “ ⌊Kat Armas⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊Robyn Moreno⌉⌊mariposass⌉ 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 “ 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" “ ⌊Thema Bryant⌉⌊mariposa 4⌉⌊mariposa 3⌉ ⌊image 2026 08 14 11.46.24â ¯AM⌉⌊mariposass⌉ In CHANCLA, Leslie Priscilla challenges the narrative that treating children with respect is “white people shit.” Exposing how the parenting norms of Chancla Culture( like tiger parenting) are rooted in colonization and domination, she points us back to Indigenous ways of childrearing and guides us to heal as a collective. Her relatable stories, profound insights, thoughtful questions, and brave vision for cultural transformation make her a true maestra of nonviolent parenting—not only for the Latinx community but for anyone trying to heal. — Iris Chen Author & Founder of Untigering “