07/18/2025
Guess what?
You’re allowed to break the cycle. You’re allowed to grow beyond the limitations of your upbringing. You’re allowed to live in a way that honors who you really are — even if that looks nothing like what you were taught.
For many of us, the way we were raised didn’t include emotional safety. It didn’t teach us how to set boundaries, express needs, or prioritize our own peace. Instead, we learned to perform, suppress, survive, and sometimes even disappear to avoid conflict.
But that doesn’t have to be your forever.
You don’t have to keep carrying the emotional weight of your family’s trauma.
You don’t have to follow the same patterns just because that’s “how it’s always been.”
You don’t have to hold it all alone.
Healing starts when we give ourselves permission to live differently — to choose peace, softness, and freedom.
And therapy? That’s where this permission becomes real.
Where you learn to trust yourself.
To break generational cycles.
To step into the version of you that’s been waiting beneath the surface.
You get to choose a new story.
Ready to start yours?
💫 Visit www.iridescence.ca to connect with one of our therapists today.
