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How Language Barriers Block Emotional Healing

My therapist only speaks English but my trauma happened in Spanish and I can't access the real pain through translation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Emotional wounds encoded in one language may be inaccessible through therapeutic work conducted in another.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Multilingualism and its gifts?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.