Therapy is a sense check on everything you are going through as it happens. It offers space for an impartial expert to step in when they see trouble brewing in areas you may have missed.

To address mental health stigmas, raise awareness, and increase mental illness treatments amongst Middle Eastern communities, it is essential to foster open conversations, promote education and understanding about mental health, and work toward building accessible and culturally sensitive mental healthcare services.

If mental illness or anxiety shows up in the lives of African Americans, they usually try to hide it due to the stigma of being perceived as weak; they feel it should be kept from others.

Values are what give our life meaning and purpose. When I listen to my intuition, it is in effect my inner wisdom encouraging me to question if the decisions I am making align with my values.