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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AM I DOING OK? ARE YOU OK?  SIGNS OF MENTAL HEALTH Issues You Shouldn’t Ignore (For yourself and those around you…)
Overwhelm and Exhaustion, Numbing and Coping, Disconnect and Isolation, Symptoms and Signals, Pain and Processing, Community and Collective Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Overwhelm and Exhaustion, Numbing and Coping, Disconnect and Isolation, Symptoms and Signals, Pain and Processing, Community and Collective Care, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

AM I DOING OK? ARE YOU OK?  SIGNS OF MENTAL HEALTH Issues You Shouldn’t Ignore (For yourself and those around you…)

It’s time to name the warning signs that too many folks brush off. IT’S OKAY IF YOU’RE NOT OK. CHECK IN WITH YOURSELF and others:

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OMG My MOOD IS Up and Down Every Day!! — HELP!
Anxiety and Depression, Stress and Overwhelm, Healing and Support, Mental Health and Emotions, Community and Collective Care, Nashuda 'Nash' Augustine MHC-LP Nashuda 'Nash' Augustine, MHC-LP (she/her) Anxiety and Depression, Stress and Overwhelm, Healing and Support, Mental Health and Emotions, Community and Collective Care, Nashuda 'Nash' Augustine MHC-LP Nashuda 'Nash' Augustine, MHC-LP (she/her)

OMG My MOOD IS Up and Down Every Day!! — HELP!

The world we’re living in right now is, to put it lightly, crazy. Things seem to be shifting at a pace that’s both dizzying and exhausting. One minute, everything feels fine, and the next, you’re overwhelmed, anxious, or sinking into a fog of depression. For so many of us, the combination of global chaos, personal pressures, and the constant bombardment of stressors can make it feel like we're walking on a tightrope, constantly teetering between holding it all together and falling apart.

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It’s Self-Care Month (designated by the World Health Organization in 2019). 
Mental Health and Well-being, Community Care, Self-Care, Stress Management, Cultural Perspectives, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie Mental Health and Well-being, Community Care, Self-Care, Stress Management, Cultural Perspectives, Tanisha Christie LCSW Tanisha Christie

It’s Self-Care Month (designated by the World Health Organization in 2019). 

Thanks WHO! Did you know the concept of self-care in the United States originated as a medical term in the 1950s for long term care patients? Later the ‘self care’ concept was adopted by activist groups during the civil rights movement as a way to manage the wear and tear on one’s body when on the front lines. BUT, if we take a moment and decenter western history around the concept, we can see that indigenous forepeople have been attuned to the needs for time for holistically caring for the body (and the planet, for that matter) as a collective responsibility for a community long before the concept was named and, now talked about by influencers. ( I mean, I remember my grandma talking about “resting her eyes”... can anyone else think of terms or phrases from elders that talked about ideas of rest?) Anyway…

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