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When Cultural Values Conflict With Healing Needs

My mother calls me selfish for going to therapy because in our culture you handle problems within the family but I am drowning in our family's problems.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traditional cultural approaches to family loyalty can sometimes obstruct the individual healing necessary to interrupt destructive patterns.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Generational trauma — identifying and interrupting?”

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