Dr. Sarah Williams seated speaking with microphone — mental health perspectives on burnout, grief, and identity

Perspectives on Mental Health, Culture, and the Weight of an Examined Life

Real talk on burnout, grief, identity, and what it means to carry a lot — from a clinician who has carried some of it herself.

The Mental Health Cost of Being the Strong One in Your Family
Dr. Sarah Williams Dr. Sarah Williams

The Mental Health Cost of Being the Strong One in Your Family

In most families, there is one person who holds things together. Who makes the calls, manages the crises, carries the emotional weight of every person in the room. That person is usually a woman. And the cost of that role is almost never talked about honestly, because the person carrying it is too busy carrying it to say it out loud.

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