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Scenario

When friends grow apart over evolving relationships with their cultural food traditions

My best friend and I have been cooking traditional foods from our respective cultures for each other for years, but lately I've been questioning some of the practices my culture taught me around food and she seems hurt that I'm not embracing my heritage the way I used to. We're both changing but in different directions and our shared meals don't feel like connection anymore — they feel like judgment.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that individual growth around cultural identity can threaten shared traditions that once bonded them.

Your guide for this
Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Dietary traditions across cultures?”

Peri

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