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When therapeutic frameworks don't match your lived experience

My therapist keeps asking me to explore my 'racial trauma' but I don't feel traumatized, just confused, and now I'm wondering if I'm in denial or if she's projecting.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The expectation to fit prescribed narratives of racial experience can invalidate the complexity of individual identity journeys.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mixed-race identity and belonging?”

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