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How family disappointment can contaminate cultural connection

I cannot eat my mother's food anymore because every bite tastes like her disappointment in who I have become.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Rejection of inherited expectations creates estrangement from the sensory and cultural anchors of identity.

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“Where Are You with Cultural idioms of distress?”

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