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Brown Girl Therapy Founded by Sahaj Kaur Kohli, a mental health professional, Brown Girl Therapy aims to destigmatize mental health and promote bicultural identity exploration.

06/12/2026

Comment NEWSLETTER to get the full, free essay and read more on living between cultures

I have been a published author with tens of thousands of book sold for two years 🥹🥹🥹 I am so blown away by the reception...
05/07/2026

I have been a published author with tens of thousands of book sold for two years 🥹🥹🥹 I am so blown away by the reception of this book, and this experience.

Our own growth and healing, pursuit of vulnerability and connection, has ripple effects. Don’t ever forget that.

Comment BOOK to get the link!

To be clear, empathy is beautiful. Understanding people matters. Nuance matters.But I think this overcorrection happens ...
05/06/2026

To be clear, empathy is beautiful. Understanding people matters. Nuance matters.

But I think this overcorrection happens a lot in cultures and family systems where connection, harmony, sacrifice, or emotional survival are prioritized over individuality. Especially if you grew up in an immigrant family, or a home, where emotions felt unpredictable. In these environments, empathy often wasn’t just encouraged, it was adaptive. It’s what taught many of us this is who we needed to be in order to keep relationships intact.

Then you add systems to the mix and you’re constantly adapting, and surviving and keeping the peace.

I see this in my work allllll the time. So many of you are so unforgiving to yourselves. But please, please, please know:

That self-compassion is not the opposite of accountability.

That caring about your own pain does not erase someone else’s.

That understanding someone’s context does not require minimizing your own experience.

That boundaries are not a failure of empathy.

That rest is not a moral issue.

That your needs do not become invalid just because someone else had it harder.

In friendships, you can care about each other deeply and still overlook each other in meaningful ways — especially when ...
05/06/2026

In friendships, you can care about each other deeply and still overlook each other in meaningful ways — especially when your lives have been shaped by different cultural experiences, family dynamics, or expectations.

None of this is to suggest the friendship doesn’t serve a purpose or isn’t real, but it might mean there are parts of you
that aren’t fully seen or held.

That’s why I’m working on something to help you (and loved ones) bridge the cultural gap in your relationships. Not just culture in heritage, or ethnicity or race, but also in identity and family and all the ways you’ve been shaped by your world. Stay tuned 💙

What’s something you’ve felt was a culture gap in a friendship?

It’s here 🎉Welcome to my newest endeavor, The Bicultural Brief, a newsletter community that translates the complexities ...
05/01/2026

It’s here 🎉

Welcome to my newest endeavor, The Bicultural Brief, a newsletter community that translates the complexities of bicultural and multicultural identity into insights and tools for clinicians.

Let me help you turn cultural awareness into culturally responsive care.

I’ve been working behind the scenes for months. Comment BRIEF to join and learn more and get this wonderful long essay with so many questions and tools and tips for you as helping professionals.

I won’t stop doing my work here for the community but wanted to create a secondary space for helping professionals

This week was national infertility awareness week and I wanted to highlight how this experience can feel in this communi...
04/24/2026

This week was national infertility awareness week and I wanted to highlight how this experience can feel in this community.

Infertility is often talked about like a medical issue, but for many in this community, it’s also deeply cultural.

It’s about what happens when something you were taught to expect, something that felt like a given, doesn’t unfold the way you were told it would. And how quickly something private becomes something people feel entitled to ask about, comment on, or explain.

Reading through your responses, what stood out most was the pain, silence, and perseverance.

This is not necessarily something to hide, minimize, or make sense of in isolation. And many of you are holding both grief and the weight of what this is “supposed” to mean.

If you shared your experience here, thank you, and if you’re reading this and relating quietly, you’re not the only one.

Part 1 of a series highlighting how cultural context matters in the workplace.I do about 25+ speaking engagements a year...
04/16/2026

Part 1 of a series highlighting how cultural context matters in the workplace.

I do about 25+ speaking engagements a year and am currently open for 1-2 more slots in May (Mental Health Awareness + AAPI heritage) and for anytime later in the year!

You can go to my website or comment SPEAKING to get my speaker guide and contact my team to start a conversation about bringing me in. I offer original and tailored curricula, workshops, keynotes, fireside chats and book talks!

What else would you add to this list?

Many of us were taught to prepare for loss, worst case, things not working out. And I get it, it’s rooted in history, sa...
04/14/2026

Many of us were taught to prepare for loss, worst case, things not working out. And I get it, it’s rooted in history, safety, power, structural context. AND My goodness we deserve abundance. We deserve more, we deserve ease, we deserve time, and rest and comfort and possibility and space.

I wrote a free essay on this (types of abundance, how discomfort shows up, and how to work through this), just comment NEWSLETTER to read the whole thing.

With National Healthcare Decisions Day coming up on April 16, which exists to encourage and empower people to begin or c...
04/10/2026

With National Healthcare Decisions Day coming up on April 16, which exists to encourage and empower people to begin or continue conversations about their wishes for care through the end of life, I am happy to partner with to amplify their work in creating free resources for you to have these painful and difficult conversations with loved ones (and in different languages) about end-of-life decisions.

You can learn more on their website!

Is this a conversation you’ve had with loved ones yet? What has worked for you given cultural context?

Note: While this post focuses on having these conversations with our immigrant parents, I want to encourage you to have these conversations all around – with siblings, friends, partners, and with yourself. This is a part of community care, even if it’s uncomfortable and inconvenient.

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