How do I know I need to be on a healing journey?
Take a moment to read through these questions. If you answer "YES" to any of them, let's meet for a free mini consultation.
Do you feel like you are overwhelmed, angry, anxious and/or depressed a lot of times?
- Do you find yourself anxious or depressed often without really knowing why?
- Are you often questioning your decisions and finding yourself people-pleasing?
- Do you feel like you have a hard time trusting others, do not allow people in and have many superficial relationships?
- Do you struggle with emotional regulations and understanding how to process healthy emotions?
Does your relationship with your Balkan parent(s) bring you a lot of pain and heartache?
- Did you grow up with dismissive and emotionally absent parents?
- Do boundaries feel impossible with them?
- Did your parents threaten, hit and/or yell at you often in childhood?
- Were you raised to think about "what will people say" first?
Are you seen as a problem in your family because you are asking to be treated with respect and not like a child?
- Do you get told: "you will see what this is when you have your own child" whenever you speak up for yourself?
- Are you often told that you are too "Western" and that you can't do things because that's not how we do them in the Balkans?
- Do you feel guilty about your choices because your parents/family do not support them and shame/threatens to disown you?
- Do you choose to hide things from your parents because you do not want to deal with their emotional reactivity?
What other Balkan women are saying: