… Within that period, her duties ranged from substitute teacher to case manager, social worker then bilingual therapist. Ana Maria  greatly enjoyed her career up until the time came where it was no longer possible to ignore the great pain she had been repressing. There were great hardships endured in her youth and young adulthood that she never allowed to be deeply looked at nor processed. During those turbulent years, Ana Maria lived in an illusion of substance abuse and a series of volatile dome …