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Living as an ‘Odar’: From Outsider to Reclaimed Belonging
The Grief We Inherit: On Intergenerational Trauma and Intergenerational Healing
Unlearning Shame: Embracing Your Menstrual Cycle
Whole, Not Half: Reclaiming Your Biracial Identity
The Echoes We Carry: Healing Ancestral Wounds
Vulnerability Can Be Scary: Poetry as Expression
Grief Doesn’t Have a Deadline: Why Western Timelines Can’t Contain Our Pain
Bridging the Gap: Healing Cultural Dissonance with Immigrant Parents
The Grief We Don’t Name: Diasporic Grief
Exploring Gender Identity in Between Cultures
The Weight of Weight
The Power of Art: Reclaiming Creativity as a Way of Taking Care of Ourselves and Moving through Change
3 tools to help you navigate guilt as a child of immigrants
Staying Grounded in the Age of Doom-Scrolling: Self-Care While the Empire Falls
Ramadan Reflections: Navigating Spirituality, Self-Worth, and Connection in a Busy World
5 reasons you need culturally informed therapy
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The Five Universal Emotions
You have a newfound respect for emotions, knowing what they are, realizing their usefulness and also recognizing the ways in which they don’t always represent an objective truth. Now, let’s dig into the five universal emotions.
Demystifying & Debunking Myths about Emotions
You have a better sense for what an emotion is and some of the ways that we think about emotions and our responses to them. In this blog, we will look at some of the unhealthy familial emotional environments that set us up for having a harder time with emotions later on in life, what we can do about that, and debunk some common emotional myths.
The "Emotion" Part of Emotional Intelligence
We have been talking about emotional intelligence: what it is, how it intersects with IQ, and how it’s related to learning. Let’s focus on the “emotion” part of EQ. Let’s start talking about a more informed framework of emotions, giving you a better sense for how to view emotions and debunking emotional myths.