Celeste Corona

My name is Celeste Corona, my married last name is Lopez, I’m a big-time fan of Jennifer Lopez as you will soon find out, so I always joke that I really only married my husband for his last name LOL.
I’m a mother of two, almost 6-year-old Gael, and 3 year old rambunctious Valentina. Ive been married for 8 years now. I was born and raised in a small beach and ag town, Watsonville Ca. I moved to Fresno at the age of 17 to attend CSU Fresno, where I received my Bachelors in Business Marketing in 2009. 
The reason “ella” was born.
Being a Latina adult, can be very hard and very lonely. It comes with many pressures, pressure to keep it all together, pressure to do it all, pressure to do it a certain way! You get to a point in your life where you go through your hardships and your joys, alone, because who has time for you anyway? They have their own chaotic life going on too. Right? Wrong! I was so stuck in this mentality. I lost connection with my friends and with my family. I got stuck in a lonely routine, I had two kids, I had no hobbies, I had no friends (I had them, but I thought I didn’t since I myself distanced from them), I had no fun. 
I went through a very, very rough patch in my marriage, that I’m happy to say we worked out, and still going strong. But come to find out I had my own demons to fight in my mind. I fell in to a depression and dealt with anxiety, where I could not function anymore as a working adult, I struggled for over a year, I was done. I lost myself. I was not Celeste anymore, and you know who I thought of, my mother, how sad would she feel that her baby she was once so happy to bring in to this world lost her self. How sad that my children were to one day find out their mother was so unhappy when they were little, that she neglected them, because she had no energy, no hope, no happiness in her heart.
I finally said NO MORE. I picked up the phone and called my MD, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety, I was put on some medication and then I wanted the control back. I started taking my health more seriously. 
I put myself first! 
“you cannot take care of your family if you cannot take care of yourself first!” My mother’s words repeated in my head many, many times. 
I started to workout 5 days a week, I started to eat cleaner and healthier, and I started to do things “I” enjoyed for me! 
I went to get a massage, I went to do my hair, I planned a day train trip to San Francisco with my best friends, I went to a boxing class, I started reading again, I went golfing for the first time, I went out on date nights with my husband!
I started ella Latina!
Because, I know I am not alone. I know many other women have gone through the same rut of losing themselves, losing their own identity. So I wanted to create a safe space, where we can share our stories, encourage one another to do things they have always wanted to do, but never have, motivate each other to live a health and happy balanced life. I use the three pillars: fitness, nutrition, and self-love because I feel that this is the foundation for what helped me find myself again. 
I found Celeste. My mother’s daughter.