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On this page, I will be sharing some information, tools, and tidbits from my psychotherapy work with the hopes of enhancing your wellness goals! I know what it feels like to be different and look different and my hope is that this page builds a community for all, especially for those who feel out of place.

07/31/2025

You know me to know, 🤷🏽‍♀️ I dont promote much on this page, unless I believe its something of value in my life already, and then 100% would be of value for you. Right, ..’love for others, what you love for yourself’ k cool.

SO!

Recently I dsicovered this brand, can I just tell you, I AM IN LOVE. It’s one thing when a brand speaks for itself, and is just sooooo worth the investment of everything you drop, BUT its an entirely other thing when someone is behind that brand who is so wonderfully down to earth.

Ugh, another reason why you, have to support small businesses. Your money goes farther, and its given back to people who deserve it.

Thank you at for the work you do, and for the way you carry that work out! ♥️

Forever a new follower, and customer!!!! 🌹

07/28/2025

Almost every month 🫢, I’ll have a couple come in for session, and then not realize the main issue is that .. people feel unappreciated, neglected .. but then will feel guilty to say this because it’s like ..’well my partner, is a nice person, and we’ll, they haven’t cheated or like hurt me’ but.. hi? Helllloooo, neglect is also a form of hurt, and a cause of pain.

It is okay to say: I don’t feel seen by my partner.

It is okay to want more in your romantic relationships ( also goes true for platonic 👀 ).. anyway! My Monday rants, also, have you signed up for my newsletter, I yaaaap even more there about stuff like this | link in bio, see you there.

07/25/2025

I am SO proud of my friend Halima ( ) 😭she did that. Like actually, she poured her whole heart into this deck, Between You, Me & Allah, ♥️ and as someone who’s played it with her, benefited from it, and learns from her on the daily… I could not love this work more. 🥹

I’m telllling you, it’s not just a card deck. It’s building the spaces in friendship we never had. A space to go deeper in your friendships, to build love that’s genuinely sooo intentional and spiritual.

Thaaaat said, I’m super excited to be able to be giving one away! To enter:
✨ Follow .poc.therapist and
✨ Tag someone you love in the comments
✨ Winner announced next Friday, August 1st

Go tag your people. ONLY the ones your heart wants more with. 2025, ONLY INTENTIONAL FRIENDSHIPS

07/24/2025

Ughhh the way people drop their ChatGPT diagnoses in the DMs like it’s therapy? Wild. 🤯

Knowing the term isn’t the same as doing the work.
Self-awareness is cute, but healing? That takes practice, not just pretty words.

Therapy isn’t just something you read about. It’s something you live through.

For more tough truths like this, straight from me to you, subscribe to my newsletter, NO FILTER.

Just me, saying it like it is. 💬 | Link in bio.

07/22/2025

This interview… 🥹 it broke me. And it’s still sitting heavy.

I’ve been thinking about it in client sessions, in car rides, in conversations with friends when the words won’t come but the feelings are loud.

said what so many of us have never been allowed to say. And she said it with such clarity, it cracked something open. ❤️‍🩹

This is why I created . A space to finally breathe. To exhale what we’ve been holding in for years.

Because sometimes our very homes make it hard to breathe. And our communities don’t give us space either.

Please if you do nothing else this week, watch that interview. Let it sit with you. Let it speak to you.

07/08/2025

Sharing this here, ♥️, hoping it finds the one who can resonate with it.

newsletter | link in bio ✨for more honesty and moments of vulnerability like this.

07/04/2025

Question for you … 👀.. Ever notice how the most manipulative person is often the most liked?

It’s not always about kindness. Sometimes, it’s control wrapped in charisma.

This post is for the ones who sensed something was off but didn’t have the words.

Now you do. 🤷🏽‍♀️

link in bio | POC newsletter ♥️

06/16/2025

Some things I enjoyed this week, and somethings friends of mine sent me 💛, words I hope that hold you well, just as they held me last week.

06/13/2025

I hear this more than you think: ☝🏾
“Why do I feel guilty for enjoying my life?”
Especially if you grew up watching people survive more than they lived… joy can feel unfamiliar. Even wrong. 😞

But honesssstly 🤷🏽‍♀️:
You’re not doing something wrong by healing.
You’re doing something different.

And sometimes, different is what breaks the cycle. ♥️

✨ If this hit, share it or save it as a reminder when guilt starts creeping in. You don’t owe the world a smaller version of you just to be understood. Keep going.

06/10/2025

Life is too short to keep proving your worth in spaces that don’t honour you. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Too short to keep overexplaining yourself, holding your breath, or staying where you’ve outgrown. ☝🏾

This post is a soft reminder, for the version of you that’s learning to take up space with a little more ease 🥹, trust your instincts without guilt, and live with more alignment than obligation.

And if you’re in a season of letting go, I hope the last slide meets you with gentleness.

Because it’s not about bitterness. It’s about becoming.

✨ What’s something you think life is too short for?

Tell me below, I’d love to hear it, your words of gems/wisdom!

05/30/2025

I know, I know, I didn’t do the trend like everyone else 😅
But I had to put a therapist spin on it.

Because for so many of us, especially daughters of immigrants, what we were told was “normal” was actually never okay. 😞

This is for the ones still unlearning what hurt them, even if it raised us.

🧡 Let me know which one hit home for you.

05/29/2025

✨ I’ve been a little quiet, off for some light travels with my husband. And in one of those still moments, I found myself with his notebook, just jotting thoughts that had been living rent-free in my mind.

Later, he looked at the page, smiled, and said, “This is beautiful. You have to share this with the POC fam.”

So here it is: the chaos, clarity, and catharsis that lives in the mind of a therapist. 😭

Also? Happy Thursday. Sending all of you so much love 💛

Tell me which line hit home the most for you ↓

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