As a child of immigrants, one thing that I learned as a result of learning to survive in this country while working through a lens of familial culture and saving face was to treat other people’s discomfort as something urgent to be dealt with.
I’m ever so grateful for my therapist helping me begin to work through that. One thing she taught me that I refe…
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