What Belonging Actually Feels Like When You’ve Spent Most of Your Life Without It
If you’ve spent most of your life on the edge of rooms — too much one thing, not enough another, always slightly translating yourself — you may have gotten so good at not belonging that you wouldn’t recognize belonging if it arrived…If you’ve spent years without it, the clearest sign is often relief — the kind that arrives before you’ve named what you were waiting for.
Multiracial Identity: The Stages of Mixed-Race Growth
Multiracial folks go through shared stages across their development of racial identity. Let’s talk about how you can navigate this journey with more ease, self-compassion, and understanding.
How to Process Your Feelings: A Step-by-Step Guide
Moving through difficult emotions with curiosity, compassion, and meditation leads to healing. Here I share step-by-step how to process your feelings.
Multiracial Mental Health (Part I): The Mixed Experience
Multiracial, Mixed, or biracial, others want to know “what” we are before learning who we are. There are more multiracial or Mixed-race people today than ever before, yet we can easily feel the experience of othering in the communities we grow up around.
Multiracial Mental Health (Part II): Healing in the Mixed Community
Multiracial folks often face conflicts around embracing identity versus fitting in. For some of us, not fully identifying with one racial or cultural group can leave us wondering where we really belong.
Suffering is Optional: Softening Resistance and Living with Pain
Living means experiencing pain, but suffering is optional. Therapy can help us better respond to our pain.
Resolutions: Push for what you believe in. Make meaning. Dream big.
I challenge my readers to think about New Year’s resolutions in a different way. What if you were to launch into the new year striving for more meaning in your life?
How to Be an Anti Racist Therapist: 5 Impactful Action Steps
It’s due time that inclusivity and racial justice for Black folks be on all of our minds. Here are some valuable resources on offer from activist educators, counselors, and community leaders on how to be an anti racist therapist.
How to Be the Best Friend You Need Right Now
Clients often share how they self-judge, criticize, or see themselves as not enough. Here I discuss the whys and hows of self-compassion, or how to be your best friend.
Therapy on Zoom: 5 Life Lessons Covid-19 Used to Completely Rock Our World
I share the life lessons I squeezed out of the lemon of 2020, based on how my clients have best coped with the chaos.