About Mi Hita
Mi Hita
(me-he-ta)
A term of endearment, cherishing womanhood, representing the alchemy of modern knowledge mixed with ancient wisdom.
In Latino culture, daughters are lovingly called mijita, hija, and in Northern New Mexico, mi hita, a term of endearment and belonging. In Spanish, hito also means milestone.
I chose the name Mi Hita for a few reasons.
The name
Why Mi Hita
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What we inherit
We are many things at once. Womanhood exists at the intersection of all of it.
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The name is a nod to my Northern New Mexican heritage, my cultural upbringing, and the wisdom and knowledge passed down to me.
But inheritance is bigger than tradition. We inherit genes and biology. We inherit culture, beliefs, stories, expectations, ways of caring for one another, and ideas about who we are supposed to be.
All of that intersects with the place and time in which we live, the dominant culture around us, and what we discover and choose for ourselves.
We are many things at once. Womanhood exists at the intersection of all of it.
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The space in between
Mi Hita is interested in that space.
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I intentionally chose the Spanglish spelling Mi Hita.
To me, it represents an in-between that women know well.
We live within the rhythms, transitions, and realities of our bodies while moving through a world that often takes little notice of them. Our biology changes across a lifetime, while many of the structures around us expect consistency.
We are continually navigating the space between what our bodies are experiencing and what the world asks of us.
Mi Hita is interested in that space.
Not because women need to become better at overriding themselves, but because understanding ourselves gives us more agency in how we live, work, create, care, relate, and move through the world.
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A term of endearment
Mi Hita, you are welcome here.
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Mi Hita. Mija. Mijita.
These are words of affection. A way of calling someone cherished. A way of saying: you belong here.
My grandmother still calls me this at 40 years old, right alongside my little cousins and the great-grandchildren in our family. There is something beautiful about a name that can hold you through an entire lifetime.
That spirit of belonging is part of Mi Hita, too.
Mi Hita, you are welcome here.
Let us cherish your journey through womanhood, because your experience is worth understanding, honoring, celebrating, and supporting.
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The milestone
Mi Hita makes room for all of it.
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The Spanish word hito means milestone.
Our lives are full of milestones, some obvious and celebrated, others quiet and almost invisible.
A first period. Falling in love. Becoming a mother, or deciding not to. A career change. A changing body. Creating something. Caring for someone you love. A relationship beginning or ending. Growing older. Starting over. Becoming someone you couldn’t have imagined years before.
Mi Hita makes room for all of it.
Because the milestones of a woman’s life aren’t simply markers of time. They are part of the story of who she is becoming.
What is Mi Hita?
Mi Hita is a womanhood studio.
A place to learn about womanhood in ways most of us never had the chance to.
We explore what it means to live in a female body and move through the world as a woman, bringing together modern research, inherited wisdom, and women’s lived experiences.
That can lead us almost anywhere.
Biology. Culture. Work. Relationships. Caregiving. Identity. Creativity. Ambition. Motherhood. Aging. The places we live. The things we inherit. The systems we move through. The things we make. The lives we imagine for ourselves.
Mi Hita connects things that are often treated as separate: modern knowledge and inherited wisdom, our bodies and the environments around us, work and caregiving, culture and biology, creativity and identity, people and ideas.
Sometimes we learn through research and conversation. Sometimes through workshops, experiences, photography, movement, or making something with our hands. Sometimes we meet someone doing fascinating work, explore a place, try something ourselves, or follow a question simply because it is interesting and see where it takes us.
Mi Hita isn’t here to prescribe one right way to be a woman.
It exists to help us understand more, notice more, ask better questions, make connections, and create more room to make choices about our own lives.
Because when women understand themselves and the world around them, we have more agency to create the conditions in which we can thrive.
Apollonia Gallegos
Founder · Womanhood Architect
About Apollonia
Hi, I’m Apollonia, founder of Mi Hita.
My interest in women’s bodies, birth, and photography began long before I knew any of them would become part of my work. Before I had even reached a decade of life, I had witnessed two births. At the second, I had a wind-up disposable camera in my hands, photographing the birth as it unfolded. Years later, I learned that my great-grandmother had been a midwife in Northern New Mexico.
In my early 30s, my relationship with my body and womanhood became deeply personal when I experienced recurrent pregnancy loss. In the grief and uncertainty of trying to understand what was happening, I found myself asking questions about my fertility, my hormones, and my body that I couldn’t believe I didn’t already know the answers to.
I started searching for them.
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And the more I learned, the more I realized how much we are simply never taught about our own bodies or what it means to move through the world as women.
The idea for Mi Hita began taking shape in 2019, shortly after I lost my grandfather, one of the most important people in my life. I woke up one night with an idea about women, nature, cycles, creation, and photography that I couldn’t shake. I didn’t yet know what it would become or what to call it.
Then one afternoon, sitting on the beach and missing my grandpa, the answer came to me:
This work is Mi Hita.
Mi Hita was one of the names my grandpa called me.
I followed the idea. I trained as a doula, studied women’s hormone health and fertility awareness, and continued my education across movement, breathwork, and other practices. I photographed women, births, families, and life transitions. I created gatherings and experiences. And I kept asking questions.
Alongside that work, I bring more than 17 years of experience across education, recruitment and talent, organizational leadership, and program development. I’ve spent much of my career teaching, recruiting, leading, building programs, creating experiences, and bringing people together.
Mi Hita brings those worlds together.
Today, my work follows the many things that shape our experience of womanhood: our biology, work, relationships, caregiving, identity, creativity, culture, and the transitions we move through. I bring these conversations into workplaces, work with women individually, and create opportunities to learn, explore, make, reflect, and connect.
I don’t believe any one discipline holds the whole story. Modern research can tell us something. The knowledge carried through generations can tell us something. Our lived experiences can tell us something. And sometimes the most interesting discoveries happen when we begin connecting them.
That is Mi Hita.
Training & experience
Corporate & systems foundation
- 17+ years Recruitment & Talent Acquisition leadership
- B.A. in Mass Communications
- M.A. in Education
Women’s health & somatic training
- Women’s Hormone Health Certification
- Fertility Awareness Training
- Doula-trained & experienced practitioner
- Certified NRGY Breathwork Facilitator
- Certified Yoga Instructor
- Certified Kids Yoga Instructor
- Sound Healing Practitioner (certification in progress)
- Art Therapy–Informed Practitioner (certification in progress)
These credentials are tools, informing a practice rooted in thoughtful design, lived experience, and cultural change.
A note on inclusivity
Mi Hita exists to explore and support the experiences connected to the female body and the cultural journey of womanhood.
Much of the work here centers around milestones such as the first period, fertility decisions, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and the many seasons of identity and reinvention that shape a woman’s life.
In most places throughout this work, we use language like women, womanhood, and female because these terms most closely reflect the biological and cultural experiences we are exploring.
At the same time, we recognize that not everyone who experiences menstruation, fertility journeys, pregnancy, or menopause identifies as a woman. Bodies, identities, and life paths are complex.
Mi Hita is intended to be a space of curiosity, care, and respect for all people navigating these experiences. The goal is not to define womanhood narrowly, but to create more understanding, conversation, and support around the realities of the female body and the lives shaped by it.
Everyone who finds meaning, reflection, or support in this work is welcome here.
Resonating with the work?
Whether you’re navigating a life transition, seeking deeper understanding, or looking to engage with the Mi Hita community, there are many ways to begin.
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Thoughtful letters on womanhood, culture, and becoming.