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Scenario

How to handle trauma triggers during cultural celebrations

My PTSD from childhood abuse gets worse during cultural holidays when everyone expects me to be grateful and happy and pretend our family is perfect

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective joy rituals are colliding with individual healing needs in ways that isolate and retraumatize.

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

“Where Are You with Mental health across cultures — stigma and access?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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