Speaker.
Coach.
Advocate.
With over a decade of experience in natal chart interpretation, Brena harnessed her own natal chart insights to amplify her message and advocacy impact. The many-times-viral Lipedema awareness advocate reached over ten million viewers, leading to multiple speaking engagements, article features, and brand collaborations.
Intersectional speaker
FAT.
BLACK.
QUEER.
CIS.
DISABLED.
WOMAN.
My first attempt to get a lipedema diagnosis ended when the doctor, looking at photos of cis-gendered, non-Black women with lipedema, said, “You don’t look like any of these people.” Despite her inexperience, she was right. I didn’t see myself in the images of this disorder.
Despite the lack of representation, immigrant, Black, Asian, Latinx, and white women, trans men, non-binary people, and those assigned female at birth have lipedema.
Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, intersectionality highlights how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identity markers intersect to shape experiences. Crenshaw introduced this to address the overlapping discrimination faced by African American women, showing that these identities are interconnected.
Intersectionality is core to my advocacy, storytelling, and coaching.
Intersectional Speaker, Coach & Advocate
FAT.
BLACK.
QUEER.
CIS.
DISABLED.
WOMAN.
My first attempt to get a lipedema diagnosis ended when the doctor, looking at photos of cis-gendered non-Black women with lipedema, said, “You don’t look like any of these people.” Despite her inexperience, she was right. I didn’t see myself in the images of this disorder.
Despite the lack of representation, immigrant, Black, Asian, Latinx, and white women, trans men, non-binary people, and those assigned female at birth have lipedema.
Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, intersectionality highlights how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identity markers intersect to shape experiences. Crenshaw introduced this to address the overlapping discrimination faced by African American women, showing that these identities are interconnected.
Intersectionality is core to my advocacy, storytelling, and coaching.We are all intersecionally-impacted human beings whose life conditions are enmeshed. This is the perspective from which I live, speak, advocate, and tell my stories.
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COACH
THE ZODIAC COACH
Your natal chart consists of all 12 zodiac signs, degrees, houses, and planets, along with the lunar nodes, asteroids, mathematical points, and more.
Interpreting a natal chart is not only about the individual signs, houses, and planets, but also their relationship to each other.
The insights gained from your natal chart can help you stand firm in who you are, solidify the direction of your career, guide you towards your purpose, and validate your gifts in this lifetime.
NATAL CHART INTERPRETATION & COACHING
THE ZODIAC COACH
Your natal chart consists of all 12 zodiac signs, degrees, houses, and planets, along with the lunar nodes, asteroids, mathematical points, and more. Interpreting a natal chart is not only about the individual signs, houses, and planets, but also their relationship to each other. The insights gained from your natal chart can help you stand firm in who you are, solidify the direction of your career, guide you towards your purpose, and validate your gifts in this lifetime.
Advocate
THE BLOG: MY LIPEDEMA STORY
Follow my Lipedema journey as it unfolds in real time. On my blog, you’ll find candid stories from my life as a fat, queer, Black, cis femme living with stage 4 Lipolymphedema. I explore plus-size fashion for those over a 3x, accommodating Lipedema in the arms and legs and a “b-belly.” Read my insights as a single, peri-menopausal woman navigating the world, seeking love, joy, and success in a Lipedema body.
