For many South Asians, the drive the world praises was never just ambition. It was a nervous system keeping a family safe. This is why healing can feel like betrayal, and why culturally attuned, somatic trauma therapy in California can help you belong to your family and to yourself.

When violence enters a place of worship, the trauma does not stay in that building. It lives in the nervous systems of an entire community, and often in the lineages behind that community. A somatic, holistic, culturally attuned response to the attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, and to the years and generations of Islamophobia, religious trauma, and inherited fear that arrived in Muslim bodies long before Monday.