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When personal healing requires collective approach

My therapist keeps talking about individual trauma but this heaviness I carry feels like it belongs to my whole community and I don't know how to heal alone

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Western individualism fails to address suffering that is inherently communal and intergenerational in nature

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African healing traditions for mental distress?”

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