Day by Day Psychotherapy

Healing Family Rifts Across Time, Belief, and Silence

6/28/2025 By Elizabeth Travis, LCSW “You weren’t there.” That phrase—“You weren’t there”—is simple, yet it carries a deep emotional load: grief, disappointment, and perhaps some unspoken resentment. As a mixed Chinese American therapist in my mid-thirties, I often reflect on how the intersection of culture, spirituality, and silence was not only overlooked during my upbringing […]