Radical Gratitude for BIPOC Healing: Holding Complexity as a Survival Tool
Someone says it at the end of a hard conversation: “But you have so much to be grateful for.” Something in your chest goes tight. Not because you don’t already know that. Not because joy is foreign to you. Because
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The Types of Unrecognized Grief We Carry in Our Bodies.
You sit on the edge of your bed after an exhausting Tuesday. You drop your phone onto the mattress, and the room falls quiet. Suddenly, a heavy blanket of sadness settles over your chest. You did not watch a tragedy
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Cultural Awareness, Cultural Humility, Cultural Responsiveness: What They Mean and Why It Matters for Finding a Therapist
You have been searching for a therapist. You have read profile after profile. Words like “culturally sensitive,” “culturally competent,” “anti-oppressive,” and “culturally responsive” keep appearing – sometimes all on the same profile, sometimes interchangeably, as though they mean the same
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When Autopilot Fails: Disability in a Capitalist Society
In my twenties, I walked and biked everywhere. I went out with friends, partied late, survived on minimal hours of sleep and ate foods that didn’t feel the best. Sure, I wasn’t exactly the picture of health, agility, or peak
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When Therapy Causes Harm: Microaggressions in the Therapy Room
You finally made the appointment, you sat down, and took a breath and started to say the thing you’d been carrying, the thing that lives at the intersection of your family history, your racialized body, your community, your survival. And
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Is AI Therapy Safe for BIPOC Communities? What the Research Says
You’re lying in bed at 11pm. Something sits heavy on your chest. It’s too late to call anyone, but even if you could who would you talk to? You just need to say it out loud to someone, (or something),
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Understanding the Nervous System and Why it Matters for BIPOC Healing.
Have you heard the term “nervous system” thrown around a lot these days? With access to so much more information about mental health and the body’s response to stress and trauma, you may have come across this term. But what
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When Collective Chaos Translates to Chaos in our Minds
It’s hard to deny we are living through particularly difficult times. Turning on the news feels like bracing for an assault on our humanity and the humanity of others. The past few years have felt like a barrage of incrementally
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