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Navigating Life as a Brown Girl

A therapist’s guide for South Asian women

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Navigating Life as a Brown Girl

A therapist’s guide for South Asian women

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A must-have, compassionate guide for tackling life's challenges as a Brown Girl.

Fahima Ali, a Brown girl raised in the UK, works as a therapist in the South Asian community. Also known as 'The Brown Therapist', she draws on her own lived experience to give a voice, validation and practical support to the often-overlooked struggles women face in the Brown community.

As a society, we often fail to acknowledge or understand that people from different cultural backgrounds experience different lived-in circumstances. Our upbringing shapes and impacts our mental health in distinctive ways. Fahima is on a mission to raise awareness of this touchy subject and amplify the experiences which are usually left unheard and unchanged.

Chapters cover everything from family dynamics, conflicted feelings of identity and friendship to marriage, the stigma of divorce, mental health, generational trauma, and more. Each chapter is split into two parts as Fahima first outlines the 'traditional' narrative within the South Asian community, and then begins to help us unpack it with the use of reflective questions, journal prompts, case studies and practical exercises.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The invisible life guide
2. Opening yourself up to the outside world
3. Marriage, in-laws, divorce and stigma
4. Who do you blame? Slowly breaking the cycle
5. Mental health

Conclusion
Resources
An invitation
Acknowledgements
Index

Product details

Green Tree
Published 15 Jan 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9781399420150
Imprint Green Tree
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Fahima Ali

Fahima Ali is a South Asian Muslim psychotherapist…

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