Peace and Love Amplifiers Podcast: Episode 4 Sisters Solving Stress: My conversation with Mary Cook

Do you notice that your body feels and moves differently in times that you are stressed? Our body makes sure to let us know how it feels about all of our actions from the foods that we eat, how much sleep we get, and even how we breathe.  In this episode, I am joined by …

Peace and Love Amplifiers Podcast: Episode 3 Peace, Love and Politics – my conversation with my Mom

Like mother, like daughter –  at least that’s what my goal is. My mother has been my biggest influence on what it looks like to lead with peace and love in all areas of life, and she joins me today as my first guest on Peace and Love Amplifiers!  Women empowerment has been passed down …

Peace and Love Amplifiers Podcast: Episode 1 My Journey with Peace

peace-and-love-amplifiers-audiogram go away Welcome to Peace and Love Amplifiers! I am your host, Julia Gandy Torres, and my mission with this podcast is to help amplify love and peace and shift society. Stress and anxiety have been the side effects of 2020, we can all agree on that. I want to create a space for …

Stop Trying to Convince Yourself How Stressed You Are!

You ARE!  Telling yourself, your mom, your sisters … anyone who will listen will only keep the stress levels high. You KNOW this. You can FEEL it. Yes, you need to let it out, to express it. But Jesu – STOP swimming in the stories! Stop feeling all sorry for yourself. You got this. And …

Peace and Love Amplifiers Podcast: Episode 2 Peace Intentionality

How do you apply peace in your life?  However peace shows up in your life, we can all agree that it isn’t a static state. Being peaceful does not mean always being calm, never getting angry, or immune to getting upset. While we aren’t always in a calm state of peace, we can determine where …

Peacebuilding in the era of Trump

As we approach the 2020 election, I found this letter that I wrote after the 2016 election.  It certainly seems to fit in the here and now.  Add to this a pandemic, 170,000 Americans dying, massive unemployment and even more divisiveness and it only amplifies the need to come together RIGHT NOW. I’m a peacebuilder. I’ve …