Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

“I try to remind myself that not every challenge is one we’re totally prepared for. That that too is an important lesson, and even if we don’t make it, the girls will be galvanized by their own strength. That will be enough, I tell myself. But secretly I want more. I want us to make it. I want it all. We can do this—that’s the message I want to inject. We can do anything. Especially women like us—built on the bones of survival. That is what I really want them to know.”
― Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

“Awe is the gateway drug to healing trauma through nature.”
― Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage