SPY KIDS actress Alexa Penavega believes it can be detrimental to yourself and to your relationships to keep things inside.
“When I actually started voicing my opinion and being really honest with [husband Carlos] about like things that were bothering me…my health started to totally change,” the actress explained in a clip from her podcast on Instagram. “Internalizing was literally making me sick.”
She noticed that when she started to speak out, she felt healed and happier overall.
In the comments, PenaVega added, “Do you ever withhold how you’re really feeling because it seems easier to push it aside and keep a ‘false’ peace? …I was super guilty of this for YEARS!!! Communication is everything. Sucking it up and stuffing it down may keep the peace for a moment, but it always comes with a cost.”
In the past, PenaVega has encouraged other women to speak positivity over themselves.
“You have to speak life over yourself. Your words are so powerful. Enough with the negative talk. Enough with ‘I’m not enough’ or ‘I can’t do it’ because the truth is, the more you say I can’t do it, you won’t do it! So speak life over who you are and the goals and the dreams that you have,” she explained.
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She and her husband Carlos PenaVega have had a lot of struggles in their 12-year marriage. However, they’ve built their relationship on a foundation of faith, and that’s what’s gotten them through all of their difficulties.
“God has been our foundation and…even through our lowest of lows through our marriage, which we talk about in our book, God really put an emphasis on our heart [about] marriage,” she told The Christian Post this year. “It’s something that is holy, and it’s His [God’s]. Even though it’s our marriage to fight for, it belongs to Him. So we are a unit and nothing can break us up.”
The couple has written three books together. Their most recent book is Joy Isn’t Canceled: What Grief Taught Us About Pain, Peace, and Purpose, which comes out on Nov. 3.
The book tells the story of their daughter Indy’s stillbirth and how God held them through it. Despite unimaginable loss, they had joy in their savior.
Part of the book’s description reads, “Moving between both of their perspectives, Carlos and Alexa share how worship carried them when words failed, how community showed up before they knew how to ask for help, how grief reshaped their marriage and family, and how vulnerability became the unexpected doorway to strength.”
It will be made available wherever books are sold.
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