Breaking the Spell of Unworthiness: Christine Gutierrez’s New Book is a Fierce Call to Rise
There is a worthiness revolution rising, and Christine Gutierrez is leading it.
Unlike others of its kind, though, this one doesn’t demand more hustle, striving, or providing. Instead, it whispers a radical truth: You are already enough.
As a licensed psychotherapist, Latina thought leader, and spiritual healer, Gutierrez is inviting us to remember our worth in her new book, I Am Worthy: Break the Spell of Unworthiness, Reclaim Your Divinity, and Unearth Your True Power.
Fierce and tender, rooted in ancient wisdom, her work reminds us that worth is not something you earn. It’s your birthright.
A revolutionary guide back to the self
Christine Gutierrez is no stranger to unearthing truth from beneath the rubble of patriarchy, colonialism, and the generational weight that has taught too many women of color that rest, pleasure, and abundance are luxuries.
In I Am Worthy, she weaves modern psychology with ancestral practices, mindfulness, shamanism, and wisdom from her Puerto Rican roots to guide readers back home to themselves. Even more, she doesn’t position herself as a distant expert. Instead, she positions herself just as she does in her women’s circles—at a sisterhood level.
“What I realized was that they were missing pieces that really allowed me to get to the core of the wound. In a way that was more somatic, ancestral,” she says. “For me, the ancestral practices, bringing it back to that root of when women gathered in circle, when we shared stories from our hearts, when there wasn’t this hierarchical kind of sense of I’m the expert and you’re learning, but instead we are in the circle equal. In this book, I guide people to remember their worth and to undo the lies of unworthiness that we’ve learned from not only our childhood, but from the internal structure.”
The circle is at the heart of this book. A place where healing is communal, rituals are sacred, and pleasure is reclaimed as divine.
Breaking away from hustle culture
Latinas often feel as if resting is something we need to earn. Whether it’s hustling until they drop or burning out, many of us come from families that have had to rely on hard physical labor to survive. Through this book, Christine Gutierrez invites readers to explore rest and abundance as a new way of living. Showing them there are other ways to succeed.
Growing up in a family of factory workers, Gutierrez had to break through many of her own generational patterns. In doing so, she learned new ways of making money through her practice, courses, women’s circles, and more. Now, she’s teaching women how to reclaim their femininity through rest.
“Rest is also a reclamation of the feminine way of working,” she said. Gutierrez described part of her teachings in her high-level business mastermind that includes working “in a more feminine way,” honoring our menstrual cycles. Working in a way “that honors us being able to birth businesses that are outside of the system,” she says.
Through this book, she’s helping Latinas release the need to ask for permission to chill, get their nails done, or even step into their motherhood roles without feeling guilty. She reminds us that in honoring our family’s sacrifices, there’s a new way forward where women don’t have to abandon themselves to succeed.
Rising toward self-care and pleasure
Gutierrez has long been a beacon of healing and empowerment for Latinas and women of color. Her first book, I Am Diosa, ignited a movement of radical self-care. Her retreats in Puerto Rico, mentorship programs, and forthcoming Diosa app have built global sisterhoods where women gather to heal and rise.
In I Am Worthy she’s sending an additional message for women to reclaim their power through pleasure. A tantrica and priestess, she believes the more a woman connects to her sacral sensual energy, the more alive and in charge of her own life she is. She explains our sacral sexual chakra is responsible for “shakti,” or our feminine power.
“When that is blocked, we feel like we are not lit up. Women need to be lit up. And being lit up means that our shakti, our feminine light, is lit up,” she says. “That doesn’t just mean sexuality, sharing it with others, it means our sensuality. It means our connection to pleasure and all of our senses and enjoyment and romanticizing our life and ourselves.”
In addition to the knowledge she shares about pleasure, the book also includes a self-pleasure meditation. It is a guide for women to connect to their sensual practices.
“We are worthy of pleasure, we are worthy of living that way,” she says.
A prayer to female worthiness
Gutierrez’s vision for this book goes beyond guidance. It’s a prayer, a call to action, and a revolution in itself.
“My prayer with this book is that it sparks a worthiness revolution where women are undoing all of the lies in every single area of their lives of unworthiness and that they look at each unworthy lie in the face and say, ‘You do not hold me. You do not shackle me. I rebuke you. And in the name of my worthiness, I reclaim my power, I reclaim my essence, and to really activate the queen energy within,” she says.
With unapologetic fierceness, she calls on women to activate their queen energy, to stop dimming their light, and instead “turn the volume and the light all the way up.” Her invitation is to live every choice, thought, and energetic step in alignment with the worthy self within. Always asking, “Is this bridging me closer to my worthiness or farther away?”
This is where the revolution begins.
