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My Experience with Restructuring a Diffuse Boundary within a Family System
Author: Latrice Peoples posted: Apr. 04, 2021.

Growing up in the African American community, I was socialized to embrace a collectivistic view where the needs of the family or community were given a higher priority over your Read more
Singing the Baby Blues: Strategies for Surviving the Newborn Period in a Pandemic
Author: Stefani Pila posted: Mar. 29, 2021.

Having a newborn at any point in a person’s life is exciting, challenging, and scary and requires a period of time to adjust to the new reality. Add a pandemic Read more
Self-Care: Why It’s Important and How to Implement It
Author: Lindsay McDonnell posted: Mar. 21, 2021.

“You are no good to others if you do not take care of yourself” - I was told this repeatedly for years before I finally understood what it meant. I Read more
The Most Massive Characters: Big T, Little t, and Complex Trauma
Author: Jacqueline Salazar posted: Feb. 28, 2021.

I am a childhood trauma survivor. It took me 25 years to recognize that and 30 years to fully acknowledge and embrace that I too am a trauma survivor. It Read more
Shifting the Bar – Continuing Self-Care through Difficult Times
Author: Omar Diaz posted: Feb. 14, 2021.

It would be an understatement to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected how we conduct our daily lives. Many businesses are closed, and many are not operating at full Read more
Embracing Our Roots: The Key to Our Deepest Healing
Author: Amanda Rios posted: Feb. 07, 2021.

“My family is who they are, and they won’t change, so we don’t need to talk about them.” “Okay, but I don’t think it’s related.” These are some of the most Read more
Life as a Minority: Is Healthcare, Self-care?
Author: Preston Rice posted: Jan. 31, 2021.

In our current times, the debate of whether COVID-19 vaccines are safe or not has come up for a lot of people. Whether or not we have access to the Read more
Burnout During a Pandemic- How to Identify and Resolve it
Author: Azalea Di Nardi posted: Jan. 22, 2021.

2020 was quite an exhausting year and 2021 has not felt different. The last year has brought new and unique challenges that no one could ever imagine. Facing a global Read more
On Emigration and Immigration – A Journey to Belong
Author: Ammara Khalid posted: Jan. 03, 2021.

I miss the sounds from back home; the buzzing of rickshaws and motorbikes, the bell ringing of the man rolling his vegetable cart down the street, and cawing of crows Read more
Bicultural Relationships: Navigating the Holidays
Author: Brandon Liu posted: Dec. 24, 2020.

One of my favorite New Year traditions that my family celebrated while I was growing up in Hawaii was driving the windy road up to my great grandmother’s house where Read more
Empowering Inclusivity and Complexity – Why Culture and Context Matter in Therapy
Author: Amanda Rios posted: Dec. 14, 2020.

I will never forget the moment that I was first exposed as being “different”. I was in kindergarten, it was a sunny day, and when approaching a few kids in Read more
On Therapy and Therapizing - A South Asian Perspective
Author: Ammara Khalid posted: Nov. 13, 2020.

“Tum kiya pagalon ka illaaj karo gi?” Are you going to treat crazy people? I faced this question multiple times, especially at age 18 when I first suggested that I might Read more

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