I’m Eirene Torres — a truth-teller, cycle breaker, and first-generation Dominican American raised in survival and now living in truth. I grew up carrying more than I should have, navigating C-PTSD, generational trauma, and family dynamics that taught me to stay quiet, stay small, and stay grateful for pain.
I chose to break that.
Born Tired is where I share the stories, lessons, and healing that shaped me — motherhood, identity, estrangement, neurodivergence, and the moments that finally helped me breathe again. This channel is for people who grew up holding everything together, for the ones rebuilding their sense of self, and for anyone learning how to live a life that feels like theirs.
If you’re healing, breaking cycles, or finding the courage to speak your truth, you belong here. 🤍
Born Tired Podcast
Healing taught me that grief doesn’t cancel growth. You can build peace and still mourn what you didn’t receive. Both can live in the same heart.
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Born Tired Podcast
Some fears aren’t learned.
They’re inherited.
Passed down through silence.
Through survival.
Through bodies that learned to brace before they learned to speak.
If this feels familiar, you’re not imagining it.
8 months ago | [YT] | 8
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Born Tired Podcast
The people who protected us carried more than they should have.
Healing is how we honor them, by creating lives where survival isn’t the requirement anymore 🫶🏽
8 months ago | [YT] | 7
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Born Tired Podcast
Generational healing isn’t about blaming the past. It’s about finally naming what was never spoken
and choosing a different future.
Episode 7 is about awareness, truth, and breaking the patterns that were passed down in silence.
8 months ago | [YT] | 7
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Silence doesn’t protect the family.
It protects the dysfunction.
Because when you don’t name what’s broken, you end up adjusting to it… normalizing it… even worshiping it.
And that’s how cycles stay alive.
9 months ago | [YT] | 8
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I can honor the women I come from…without repeating what they had to survive. Because endurance isn’t freedom. And silence isn’t peace when it costs you yourself.
9 months ago | [YT] | 7
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Environment matters more than we’re taught to believe. Some of us didn’t fail to thrive, we were planted in places that couldn’t hold us.
Healing isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about finally being supported enough to bloom.
9 months ago | [YT] | 6
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For a long time, I thought peace meant keeping everything calm. I believed that if I could build a quiet home, I had broken the cycle.
Episode 3 is about learning that real peace isn’t control, it’s safety. It’s listening to the body. It’s choosing gentleness without erasing the past.
9 months ago | [YT] | 5
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The body doesn’t forget what it learned to survive. Even when the mind tries to move on.
If this resonates, you’re not alone 🫶🏽
9 months ago | [YT] | 4
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Survival has its own language.
Unlearning it takes time.
Episode 1 of Born Tired begins with naming what we were taught to hide, and telling the story as it is.
10 months ago | [YT] | 6
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