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Scenario

How well-meaning comments reinforce your outsider status

I moved to this small town for my husband's job and people are polite but every conversation eventually turns to how different things must be for me here and how I must miss the city.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repeated acknowledgment of difference prevents the natural settling that transforms strangers into neighbors.

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

“Where Are You with Microaggressions and the slow exclusion?”

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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