People of Color

You have to gear up psychologically, physically, and emotionally just to get through the day. While everyone’s culture and heritage are different, navigating a world not built for you creates a deeply shared experience of systemic fatigue.

• Constant Hypervigilance: You are always on guard for how you will be perceived and evaluated —your culture, your food, your clothes, your hair, your size, your performance, your speech.

• Identity Erasure: You are exhausted by repeatedly correcting people on your name, or choosing a different name just to avoid the friction.

• Mismatched Perceptions: To some you are invisible or treated as inadequate; to others, your presence is unfairly perceived as a threat.

• Hidden Mastery: You know how to swim in a white world so seamlessly you may not even know the skills you’ve mastered to survive in it.

• Systemic Gaps: You might feel behind on building intergenerational wealth or accessing programs that others seem to intuitively know about.

• Parental Burden: You bear the exhausting weight of trying to find schools and spaces where your children can see themselves reflected.

• The Daily Toll: By the time you close the day, there is little energy left for yourself or your family. You live with a constant, embedded level of stress.

I don’t know a single person of color who doesn’t grind their teeth. We are stressed out.

• The Support Tax: You give intensely to your community, frequently getting leaned on in workplaces and schools to support other people of color until you are completely burnt out.

• The Health Impact: Chronic stress from racism, discrimination, and negative life events leads directly to less joy, poor sleep, headaches, chronic fatigue, and reduced capacity for yourself.

How I Can Support You

Racial Identity Exploration:
Navigating multiple or conflicting identities on your own terms.

Coping with Racism:
Processing daily microaggressions and systemic discrimination.

Racial Trauma Recovery:
Healing from the deep emotional impacts of systemic trauma.

Community Burnout:
Pacing your energy when being leaned on as a support system.

I am a person of color. If you’re on this page, it might be your number one question.

This doesn’t mean I’m going to know everything about you, but it probably means we have a higher chance for a shared basis of understanding.

You don’t have to explain here.