Welcome to Intentional Vida!

Overjoyed to start this journey with you!

Thank you so much for being here. Starting a blog has been in my thoughts for literally a decade. I wanted to give you a little bit of a background about how my love for writing came to be so let's get to it! xo

I discovered my love for writing through journaling when I was a little girl. As a teen, I began to write poetry as a form of healing from trauma. I was feeling so lost and battled depression, low self-worth, body dysmorphia - it was my form of therapy. I found much joy in writing poetry about friendships & boyfriends too. In highschool, I chose journalism as my elective class & fell in love with writing on a deeper level. Being able to interview my classmates and connect 1-on-1 lit a fire inside of me. We had to do a project and I chose to interview my grandma and write a story about her upbringing. It was honestly life changing for me and something I will treasure forever. I'd hear stories from time-to-time but I discovered so many new things about the woman I had the utmost amount of love and respect for. I was inspired to continue journalism and chose it as my major at my local community college. I had the opportunity to visit new stations, one being Telemundo, which I grew up watching as a little girl. I interviewed a newscaster about why he got into journalism. Him opening up to me about his story of how he got to where he was, brought tears to both our eyes. Again, this was another moment where it was just confirmation that this is where I'm supposed to be. I felt so much passion for it all! I never wanted to be a newscaster speaking about local news, I wanted to be the next Lisa Ling or Oprah. I always was so inspired by them growing up and just loved how they connected with people and how they shared these stories with the world. They always gave me so much hope, light and wisdom. This journalism journey came to a halt soon after I began college in 2005, when I met a special someone during college. I fell deep in love and fast forward to 2007, we got married in April and had our daughter in July. I got pregnant again and gave birth to my youngest daughter in 2009. We were together off and on for about a decade and during a phase where we were separated, I was living with my best friend at the time. She encouraged me to follow my dreams and go to beauty school to get my Esthetician license. I had always had a passion for skin ever since I could remember and that passion grew over the years as I experienced all levels of acne from a pre-teen through most of my 20's. I enrolled and received my license in 2013. Fast forward to 2015 we were in the middle of officially going through a rough divorce. I was living as a single mom in a not-so-good area of downtown Sacramento for about a year, struggling and in a really dark place mentally but doing my best in the midst of it all. I had posted something about facial services I was offering at the first space I rented from in Old Sac. Someone I dated in highschool and had been really close friends with, messaged me saying he'd love to take headshots of me for my new business. Well, we met up for dinner one day and caught up on life. We have been inseparable ever since. We've been together for almost a decade now, got married in March of 2024 and have 3 sons together. He's been my greatest supporter from the beginning; I am forever grateful to my husband for always believing in me even when I didn't believe in myself. From 2017-2024 I rented several different rooms in the Roseville and Sacramento area. I've always offered holistic facial services, it's been my passion since day 1. I also offered hair removal services using soft/hard wax than learned the sugaring technique and transitioned into that services alongside facials. At the end of 2024, I decided to close the doors to my physical business which was literally one of the hardest decisions I've ever made but looking back it was the best decision I made and in hindsight it all aligned how it was supposed to. We just moved to a new city, about 30 minutes away from Sacramento and it was truly the reset we all needed. I miss being in the spa setting and loving on each of my guests in person so incredibly much. But I have now leaned into and fully accepted that this is a season I am in and am figuring out/fine-tuning how I want to pivot my business. I am enjoying this season of intentional full-time motherhood and looking forward to what lies ahead.

I'll share more in the days ahead about what I'd like to share on this blog space & so much more. I could go on, but I'll close here for tonight!

Sleep well & goodnight.

xx, Veronica