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Author | The Woman of My Dreams — Coming Soon
Creator, THE C.R.E.A.T.E. FRAMEWORK™
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19 days ago

Who is the woman who will live the life you dream about?

Instead of only making a list of the things you want—the relationship, the career, the home, the adventures—try making a list of who you want to be.

Then choose one thing from that list.

And start small.

You don’t have to reinvent your entire life. You don’t have to wait until you’re completely ready. And you certainly don’t have to change everything at once.

I wanted to become an avid reader, so I started with one book.

One book became another. And another.

The important part wasn’t how many books I read.

I began taking actions that reflected the woman I said I wanted to be.

That’s T — Transform Through Action in THE C.R.E.A.T.E. FRAMEWORK™.

So try this:

Write down three characteristics of the woman of your dreams.

Then ask yourself:

What’s one small action I can take today that reflects who she is?

You don’t have to become her overnight.

Just begin practicing being her.

#CREATEFramework
#TransformThroughAction
#TheWomanOfMyDreams
#BecomingHer
#MarcelaGomez by @smarcelag

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8 hours ago

Sometimes another person’s story gives us the courage to name what is happening in our own.

I picked up my friend AnnaJo’s book, The Science of Perfection, expecting to read about her journey of reinvention. I didn’t expect it to make me think so deeply about my own.

After more than 35 years in marketing and public relations, I am stepping into a new chapter of my life.

I am an author.

Even writing those words feels significant.

Reinvention can be exciting, but it can also be uncomfortable. We are leaving behind something we know while making room for a version of ourselves that is still emerging.

One line from AnnaJo’s book stopped me:

“Boundaries are not about saying no to others. Boundaries are about creating safety for the version of you that is trying to emerge.”

That is exactly where I am right now.

Thank you, AnnaJo, for sharing your journey so openly—and for giving me a little more courage to speak mine out loud. @annajotalks

What version of you is trying to emerge?

#TheWomanOfMyDreams #Reinvention #NewBeginnings #Becoming #marcelagomez by @smarcelag

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3 days ago

The numbers tell you what I wrote.

They don’t tell you what it took to write it.

They don’t tell you about the chapters I cried through, the days I paced around the apartment trying to find the words, or the times I had to close my computer because I had reached my emotional limit.

They don’t tell you about the two weeks I didn’t write—and the fear that I wouldn’t be able to find my way back into the story.

Or the chapters that seemed to write themselves because I couldn’t ignore them.

Writing a memoir asked more of me emotionally than I anticipated.

I had to revisit moments I hadn’t visited in years. Sit with feelings I once moved past quickly. Remember not only what happened, but who I was when it happened.

There were ups and downs throughout the nine months.

What held the process together wasn’t a perfect writing routine.

It was the goal.

And the intentionality of telling my story, my way, in my own words.

Sometimes that meant writing for hours.

Sometimes it meant crying.

Sometimes it meant putting the story down until I was ready to pick it up again.

All of it was part of writing the book.

And now, for the first time, I can say:

First draft. Done.

What comes next? I’m about to find out.

#TheWomanOfMyDreams #MemoirWriting #FirstTimeAuthor #WritingMyStory #MarcelaGomez by @smarcelag

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7 days ago

“We absorb the responsibility.”

Those four words made me look differently at times when I’ve stayed quiet after someone crossed a boundary with me.

Instead of focusing on what they had done, I became concerned about what might happen if I responded.

Would someone get hurt?
Would a friendship change?
Would I create conflict?
Would I be blamed?

And without realizing it, I had made myself responsible for managing the consequences of someone else’s behavior.

That’s a belief I’m challenging.

Keeping the peace isn’t always the same thing as having peace.

And protecting everyone else shouldn’t require abandoning ourselves.

Whose responsibility are you carrying that was never yours to begin with?

#ChallengeYourBeliefs
#CREATEFramework
#Boundaries
#TheWomanOfMyDreams
#marcelagomez by @smarcelag

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9 days ago

What no one told me, and I wasn’t prepared for.

#perimenopause #menopause #postmenopause #marcelagomez #lifeasawoman by @smarcelag

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12 days ago

Nine months. No daily word count. Still wrote the book.

The real work happened in the spaces between. On walks through unfamiliar cities. In therapy, learning to witness my own stories instead of live inside them. At 2 a.m. when forty years demanded to be written down.

I thought I was failing because I wasn’t following someone else’s blueprint for what serious writers do. What I discovered was that understanding comes first. The words follow. The book follows.

The creative rules that make you feel like there’s something wrong with you might just be rules you never chose. You get to write your own.

#CreativeProcess #HealingJourney #ChallengeYourBeliefs
#thewomanofmydreams #MemoirWriting by @smarcelag

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15 days ago

I created THE C.R.E.A.T.E. FRAMEWORK™ in 2025 after looking back at my journey since 2012. The framework won’t always lead you to the things you think you want. But it will take you deeper into who you truly are.
And that… is everything.

For me, it began with a question:
What if some of the beliefs guiding my life weren’t actually mine?

I started questioning things I had accepted as truth for years, then came:
Why do I believe this? Where did this belief come from? Is it actually mine? Does it still serve the person I am today?

Some beliefs I kept. Some changed. And some I released completely.

That’s why Challenge Your Beliefs became the first step of THE C.R.E.A.T.E. FRAMEWORK™.

The goal isn’t to challenge everything simply for the sake of challenging it.

It’s to give yourself permission to choose what you believe.

If you’re interested in learning more about THE C.R.E.A.T.E. FRAMEWORK™, visit marcelagomez.com.

What belief have you challenged—or are you ready to challenge?

#ChallengeYourBeliefs #CREATEFramework #TheWomanOfMyDreams #SelfAwareness by @smarcelag

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a month ago

I developed THE C.R.E.A.T.E. FRAMEWORK™ after looking back at my own journey and recognizing the steps that have guided me—and continue to guide me—as I become the woman of my dreams.

Now, I invite you to use the framework for your own journey.

You can explore all six steps or begin with the ones that meet you where you are today.

R — Revisit Your Stories as the Observer.

This is the second step of THE C.R.E.A.T.E. FRAMEWORK™, and it asks us to go back to the stories that helped shape our beliefs—not as the person still living inside the experience, but as the observer.

Go back and get curious.
What happened? What did I say or do? What was I feeling or afraid of? What did I believe at the time? What story did I create from that experience? What can I see today that I couldn’t see then?

The goal isn’t blame or shame. And it isn’t about rewriting the past.
It’s about understanding it.

In this carousel, I share one of the stories I revisited and what I discovered when I looked at it as the observer.

And an important part of this process is learning to offer ourselves forgiveness for what we discover along the way.

What story are you ready to revisit with curiosity?

#ChallengeYourBeliefs
#RevisitYourStories #CREATEFramework #TheWomanOfMyDreams #MarcelaGomez by @smarcelag

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a month ago

We see the red flags.
We hear the quiet voice telling us to pay attention.
And still, our beliefs, hopes, and expectations can become louder.

I learned this lesson through a painful marriage and divorce.

Today, engaging my intuition is a daily practice—not because it guarantees an easy path, but because I no longer want to abandon what I know to be true for me.

I created THE C.R.E.A.T.E. FRAMEWORK™ in 2025 after looking back at my journey since 2012. The framework won’t always lead you to the things you think you want. But it will take you deeper into who you truly are.
And that… is everything.

What is your intuition asking you to trust?

If you’re interested in learning more about THE C.R.E.A.T.E. FRAMEWORK™, visit marcelagomez.com.

#CREATEFramework
#EngageYourIntuition
#TrustYourself
#TheWomanOfMyDreams
#marcelagomez by @smarcelag

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10 days ago

I used to look at the size of a woman’s engagement ring and make an assumption:
The bigger the diamond, the more loved and valued she must be.

I didn’t realize at the time what that belief also said about how I measured my own worth.

Then one simple conversation made me question the entire belief.

That’s the power of aligning our beliefs. Once we recognize that an old belief is no longer true for us, we get to choose what takes its place.

What I believe now is simple:
I am worthy because I am.

What belief have you replaced with one that better reflects who you are today?

#CREATEFramework #AlignYourBeliefs #TheWomanOfMyDreams #KnowYourWorth #SelfDiscovery by @smarcelag

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6 days ago

There is a difference between believing something and living it.

I believed I didn’t need to wait for someone else to live the life I desired. But that belief didn’t transform my life until I began making choices that reflected it.

The movies became dinner. Dinner became the theater. Eventually, going places alone became traveling the world on my own.

Transformation happens when our actions begin to reflect what we say we believe.

What is one action you can take today that reflects the life you want to live?

#CREATEFramework
#TransformThroughAction
#TheWomanOfMyDreams
#LiveYourLife
#MarcelGomez by @smarcelag

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