When You’re the First One in Your Family to Go to Therapy
Healing and Lineage, Therapy and Transformation, Boundaries and Self-Advocacy, Survival and Healing, Family and Identity, Truth and Accountability, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Healing and Lineage, Therapy and Transformation, Boundaries and Self-Advocacy, Survival and Healing, Family and Identity, Truth and Accountability, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

When You’re the First One in Your Family to Go to Therapy

There’s a particular kind of loneliness that comes with being the first one in your family to sit on a therapist’s couch. It’s not just about explaining your feelings. It’s about translating an entire worldview. About breaking open ways of coping that generations before you needed just to survive.

Nobody talks about how heavy that is.

You’re not just going to therapy for yourself. You’re going for everyone who didn’t have the language.

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