Meet Ren Gutierrez

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Ren Gutierrez a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Ren, we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?

My self-esteem didn’t come from the outside world—it came from going inward.

By listening to my own spirit, sitting with my truth, and allowing myself to experience things that feel otherworldly, I’ve learned who I really am. I’ve stopped comparing myself to others because their path isn’t mine. My medicine, my gifts, my voice come from a place beyond what can be measured or matched.

Every time I chose to turn inward instead of outward, I found more clarity.
Every time I followed the quiet guidance of my intuition, I stepped deeper into my own power.
And every time I trusted the unseen—my dreams, my visions, my ancestors, my body—I grew stronger in who I am.

My self-esteem is a reflection of the journey I’ve taken within:
walking my own path, trusting my own timing, and honoring the magic that lives in me.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

There was a moment after becoming a mother when I realized nothing about my work—or my identity—would ever be the same. It wasn’t dramatic or loud. It was quiet, almost whispered. It came from that deep, instinctual place inside the womb, the place where life had just grown and where my own intuition had stretched itself wider than ever before.

Before motherhood, my offerings were broad. I was doing massage, general spiritual work, tarot, healing—beautiful and needed things, but things that came from who I was then. I loved that chapter. It taught me how to use my hands, how to listen to energy, how to be of service. But once I held my daughter in my arms, everything in my body said, It’s time to evolve. It wasn’t about pivoting—it was about rising into the next version of myself.

As I healed postpartum, I found myself naturally retreating from traditional massage. My body didn’t want to give in that same way anymore. Massage requires a specific type of physical output that simply didn’t align with the season I was in. Motherhood asked for my softness, my intuition, my inner knowing—and surprisingly, it asked for less physical labor and more spiritual presence.

That’s when my path led me back to limpias.

Limpias have always been part of my lineage, part of the medicine I grew up around even if I didn’t always have the language for it. After birth, I understood them on a new level. Limpias are not just clearings—they’re a reset, a spiritual cleansing that wipes away stagnant energy, fear, stress, and all the residue we pick up from carrying so much for so long. During postpartum, when my spirit felt raw and open, I realized how essential these clearings really are. They ground you. They return you to yourself. They protect the home, the body, the mother, the family.

This is when my work began to reshape itself around what my body and spirit could hold.

At the same time, a new curiosity bloomed: baby birth chart readings. During pregnancy and after my daughter was born, I would watch her and feel her energy so clearly—her softness, her fire, her rhythms, the quiet ways she communicates. I wanted to understand her more deeply. And I realized that astrology, something I had worked with for years, was a beautiful tool for parents wanting to do the same.

Baby birth charts aren’t about predicting a child’s future. They’re about honoring the unique energy that arrived in this world the moment they took their first breath. They help parents understand their baby’s temperament, emotional needs, communication style, sensitivities, gifts, and challenges—so they can nurture that child in the most aligned, compassionate way. It’s a spiritual guide for conscious parenting, and it felt like a natural extension of my new identity as a mother.

My offerings began to shift:
more womb work,
more baby-focused readings,
more family-centered healing,
more energetic protection for the home.

And all of it came from lived experience, not theory.

Motherhood brings you to your knees in the most humbling and sacred way. It forces you to reorganize your life around tenderness, intuition, and the deep-rooted instinct to protect what you love. Through that, my work became more intentional. I’m not just supporting individuals anymore—I’m supporting their families, their children, their homes, their lineage.

I started to understand that what I offer now is not just healing—it’s guidance for the energy that holds a family together.

So when people ask what changed, I tell them:
I became a mother.

And motherhood didn’t just change me.
It changed my hands.
It changed my voice.
It changed my medicine.
It changed the way Spirit moves through me.

Everything I offer now comes from that place—the womb space, the mother space, the sacred ancestral space where creation and intuition meet. My work isn’t about who I was before. It’s about who I am now, and the journey that brought me here.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

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There comes a point in your life when you realize that the very things that once broke you open were actually preparing you to rise. My wounds have been some of my greatest teachers—more honest and more demanding than any classroom or certification I’ve ever sat in. They showed me who I was beneath fear, beneath doubt, beneath everything I thought I had to be.

But I also learned that healing doesn’t happen by accident. You have to meet your wounds with intention. You have to study them the way you would study a sacred text. That’s where education became a part of my path. Not education in the traditional sense alone—but the kind of learning that happens when you decide your healing matters, when you invest in knowledge that supports your growth, your craft, your calling.

For me, the combination of lived experience and study created the foundation for everything I offer today. The pain I carried—the generational stories in my body, the moments of not feeling enough, the challenges that shaped me—those became maps. They turned into empathy. They became my medicine. But my education gave me language, structure, and tools to hold that medicine with integrity.

I learned that your wounds can become your gift, but your education helps you refine that gift so you can use it wisely.

Every certificate I earned, every training I attended, every book I devoured—they weren’t just accomplishments. They were proof that I was ready to turn my healing into something I could share with others. They were stepping-stones that allowed my intuition and my experience to take shape in the world.

Your wounds are where your wisdom is born.
Your education is where your wisdom learns how to serve.

When the two come together, you’re no longer just surviving—you’re building something meaningful from the very places that once felt impossible to face.

This is how you become the healer, the guide, the teacher you once needed.
This is how your life becomes your offering

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?

As my work has evolved into a more womb-centered and family-focused path, I’ve felt a deep desire to collaborate with other healers—especially those who work with the body, the nervous system, and the sacred feminine. There is something incredibly powerful that happens when womb healers, somatic practitioners, and body workers come together. It creates a container that is bigger than any one of us can hold alone.

I’ve learned through my own journey—through birth, postpartum, and healing my lineage—that community has always been part of the medicine. Womb work isn’t meant to be practiced in isolation. Somatic healing thrives in spaces where many hands, many hearts, and many perspectives are present. We each carry a different initiation, a different story, a different piece of the puzzle.

That’s why I’m feeling called to collaborate on workshops and offerings that weave our gifts together:
the physical wisdom of the body,
the emotional intelligence of somatic healing,
the spiritual depth of womb work,
and the ancestral teachings that come through clearings, astrology, and energetic guidance.

I want to co-create spaces where women and families can feel held on every level—body, mind, and spirit. Spaces where we teach people how to come home to themselves, how to listen to their bodies, how to reconnect with the places within them that have been forgotten or neglected.

Collaboration allows the work to expand.
It allows us to create deeper healing.
And most importantly, it allows us to serve in ways that feel more aligned with the collective spirit of this moment.

I’m open to co-teaching workshops, facilitating circles, and building experiences that honor the power of shared wisdom. This season of my life—rooted in motherhood, intuition, and embodied healing—has shown me that we rise higher when we rise together.

If you’re a womb healer, a somatic practitioner, or a body-based guide, I would love to create something meaningful with you. There is so much medicine waiting to be woven

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.riogoddessbotanica.com
• Instagram: riogoddessbotanica