I've moved from Colombia to England to the US. I've traveled, met countless people, and as a simple clinical social worker, a therapist, I've worked with so many by providing safety, kindness, and a space free from judgment.
My heart is broken. I work with some of the most vulnerable yet forgotten people—immigrants running from persecution and harm. Women, children and men whose lives have been forever changed. Indigenous people who've faced discrimination their entire lives.
They come to the US seeking safety, seeking freedom. Not freedom from pain—their traumas won't leave them alone, they can't sleep, the nightmares won't stop. But freedom to breathe peacefully without the fear of dying, without being brutally harmed.
I can't speak about this openly—not in the US right now. I have to keep it all inside.
Chaplin's speech is what I feel inside. The "if only." The world still doesn't seem to get it, and what I do sometimes feels in vain. A woman, a man gets asylum—for what? Their persecution hasn't ended. It just changed countries.
This brought me to tears.
I've moved from Colombia to England to the US. I've traveled, met countless people, and as a simple clinical social worker, a therapist, I've worked with so many by providing safety, kindness, and a space free from judgment.
My heart is broken. I work with some of the most vulnerable yet forgotten people—immigrants running from persecution and harm. Women, children and men whose lives have been forever changed. Indigenous people who've faced discrimination their entire lives.
They come to the US seeking safety, seeking freedom. Not freedom from pain—their traumas won't leave them alone, they can't sleep, the nightmares won't stop. But freedom to breathe peacefully without the fear of dying, without being brutally harmed.
I can't speak about this openly—not in the US right now. I have to keep it all inside.
Chaplin's speech is what I feel inside. The "if only." The world still doesn't seem to get it, and what I do sometimes feels in vain. A woman, a man gets asylum—for what? Their persecution hasn't ended. It just changed countries.