Sculpture Reflected in a Shop Window

Now, it’s normal.

While I’m always aware of how my words might impact my career goals, nowadays, you can mostly talk about mental health without fear.

As a “X-ennial,” the rarest of the generational labels, born on the cusp between Gen-X and Millennials, I grew up having open conversations about mental health.

However, it’s only recently that I’ve come to understand the concept of generational trauma and it how it impacts the way I think about those conversations.