Welcome to Culturally Enough! A newsletter community to honor and celebrate our cultural differences, while also learning ways to show up more authentically and rooted in our multicultural identities.
As an extension of Brown Girl Therapy, this is the only online community facilitated by a mental health professional for first-, second-, and third-generation immigrants — and frankly, anyone who is straddling more than one culture.
I do not want to act as a gatekeeper of your voices and thoughts, nor do I believe I have all the answers. Instead, together, we will invest in our shared growth and learning to break cycles and live healthier, more authentic lives. Community care is self care is community care…
I’m Sahaj Kaur Kohli, MA.Ed&HD, NCC, founder of Brown Girl Therapy, an award-winning therapist and writer, a daughter of Indian immigrants and a granddaughter of refugees. I write and research extensively about the intersection of identity, culture, and mental health — and I am a sought after speaker on cross-cultural bridge building. I am a Washington Post advice columnist, author of the book But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love and Family Between Cultures — an Audible “best of” in 2024 — and host and creator of the award-winning podcast, So We’ve Been Told.
As a daughter of Indian immigrants, and the first in my family to be born in the West, who also traveled to Kobe, Japan annually for the first 18 years of my life to visit my maternal family… I know what it’s like to feel the push-and-pull of differing cultural values, norms, and expectations.
As a mental health professional, I help immigrant families, and adult children of immigrants identify their dominant stories — what they’ve been told, what they tell themselves — when it comes to feeling enough in their differing cultural identities. I also work with cross-cultural couples to help bridge the gap that exists in even our most intimate relationships.
Basically, I want to help you feel culturally enough.
About The Newsletter Community
Culturally Enough. has two different community options:
Free content is high-quality writing driven by personal inspiration. It provides depth, insights, and an introduction to therapeutic concepts through reflective essays. It is not inferior in quality to paid content, but it is limited to protect over-functioning without sustainable practices. We understand that paid is not accessible to everyone and as such there are other free resources available on Brown Girl Therapy, the So We’ve Been Told podcast, and YouTube.
Paid content grants paid subscribers access to a private community space, serving as an even more contained home for dialogue, connection, meaning-making, and mutual seeing. Additionally, paid subscribers get access to extended dialogue posts, expert conversations, community gathering events, and more resource-intensive guides. Paaid content is notable for its containment, structure, and additional resources. In short, this allows our team reciprocity to do this work with care while working to protect privacy and safety as we navigate deeper, and more nuanced, conversations with one another.
Why Subscribe To The Paid Version?
CE Insider, the paid community, offers a combination of resources, content, and community that does not exist anywhere else for bicultural and multicultural folks.
This is my life’s work. When I first started Brown Girl Therapy, I was being paid through a full-time job and it was a side hustle. Now, I am looking to build a sustainable life around sharing and facilitating conversations and learning when it comes to cultural brokering and rooting into our multicultural identities. There’s so much of this work that requires mutual thought-sharing and support, or transcends what I am comfortable saying or sharing on social media (where it feels like I am talking into an abyss without guardrails). This feels like the space for those conversations.
By subscribing to the paid version, you have my gratitude for your belief in and support of my work, and you are with me in challenging this belief that as a “content creator” I must be working for free or must be urgently overworking. In this space, I want to prioritize reciprocity, and honor our mutual capacity as we do this difficult work together. By paying, you’re making it possible for me to do my very best work and are contributing to my effort toward sustainability. You also allow me to pay those who are helping behind the scenes to make this space exist and run seamlessly.
*Disclaimer: Culturally Enough. is not therapy, a mental health service, nor is it a substitute for mental health services of any kind. I am not showing up in this space as your therapist — I am showing up here as a curiosity-driven writer, peer, and a human. If you are looking for therapy, please consult with your local mental health resources.
