How Stigma Keeps Us Quiet and What Healing Sounds Like
Relationships and Dating, Trauma and Healing, Stigma and Silence, Love and Boundaries, Domestic Violence Awareness, Therapy and Emotional Healing, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Relationships and Dating, Trauma and Healing, Stigma and Silence, Love and Boundaries, Domestic Violence Awareness, Therapy and Emotional Healing, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

How Stigma Keeps Us Quiet and What Healing Sounds Like

It rarely feels like a straight line. One day you may feel deeply connected to your partner, remembering the laughter and intimacy that drew you together. The next day, you may feel small, dismissed, or criticized in ways that sting long after the words are spoken. That back-and-forth—care and cruelty, closeness and distance—can leave you questioning: Is this a hard season we can work through, or is this something deeper that keeps repeating?

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When Men Come to Therapy: From Echo Chambers to Inner Knowing
Mens Mental Health, Masculinity and Identity, Therapy and Emotional Healing, Generational and Cultural Healing, Relationships and Vulnerability, Somatic and Parts Work Practices, Dagem Lemma LCSW Dagem Lemma, LMSW Mens Mental Health, Masculinity and Identity, Therapy and Emotional Healing, Generational and Cultural Healing, Relationships and Vulnerability, Somatic and Parts Work Practices, Dagem Lemma LCSW Dagem Lemma, LMSW

When Men Come to Therapy: From Echo Chambers to Inner Knowing

In therapy, I meet men who’ve been talking—to themselves, to friends, to podcasts, to Reddit threads and ChatGPT—for years. Group-chats and buddy hangouts echo the silence of unrequited vulnerability. They’ve been thinking through their relationships, their failures, their fears, their anger. But often, they’re not being heard in a way that brings relief or clarity. 

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