MALIKA LATCHMAN, LMHC · PERSPECTIVES ON THERAPY & CULTURE
The things you are already thinking about. Named.
Writing at the intersection of attachment, anxiety, and what it actually costs to be a high-functioning Black woman navigating relationships, family, and yourself.
You Have Been Doing the Work All Year. Then the Holidays Arrive.
You have done a lot of work this year. You understand more about your patterns. You have been practicing. And then you walk through your mother's door and within twenty minutes you are the person you have been working all year not to be.
Why You Leave Every Conversation With Your Mother Feeling Like a Child Again
Everyone is talking about emotionally immature parents right now. But there is a version of this that lives specifically in the Black mother-daughter relationship that the conversation is not quite reaching.