Valeria ItriagoSamadki – Founder & Community Experience Strategist (Brooklyn, NY), Samadki · Somatic & Nervous System Regulation Coach | Burnout & Stress Recovery | Founder of Samadki Movement

Navigating the hardest season for me as an immigrant and an entrepreneur in NYC #motivational

1 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this opening vlog of a 31‑day series, the creator records a raw, unedited snapshot of her emotional state on a December day, describing feeling sad, down, and compressed. She reflects on a lifelong pattern of trying to escape or fix sadness, recognizing that the core issue is not the feeling itself but how one sits with it. She extends this insight to other emotions—hurt, anger, frustration, fear—and commits to sharing daily, unfiltered videos throughout December to give the season another chance and to model emotional acceptance from the perspective of an immigrant entrepreneur living in New York City.

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So yeah, today I feel sad. And welcome to my 31 days of recording how I feel in December because it's the worst month emotionally for me. But this year I'm trying to change that. So yeah, today I feel sad, I feel down, I feel compressed. And for the longest period of my life, it was a lot about changing that and running away from it or try to fix it, like if there's inherently something wrong with being sad. I had so many incredible interactions where I was navigating that it's not about feeling sad, that's never the problem. The problem is how you sit with that sadness. The same with hurt and anger and frustration and fear. So today I'm just going to start recording these raw videos without editing to share how I feel during December and giving another chance to the season.