When you consider and sit with your own Cultural identity, how much of how your people relate(d) to one another is/was an adaptation due to circumstances?

Perhaps your Child(ren) are one of a few with a particular identity in a camp/classroom? Or maybe you could use support in how your child repairs with other children and themselves? And maybe, just maybe we could all benefit from honoring the humanity and identities of ourselves and one another?

Being of “mixed parts” often left me so confused, uncertain, and torn for much of my life. Not sure where and with whom I fit in with. Too brown and hairy for some and too light and not fluent in Spanish enough for others. Feeling and thinking that I have to claim only certain parts of myself to belong and loved.

We want to invest in ourselves and one another in a way so that resiliency skills and tools are not just these external practices outside of ourselves, outside of our workspaces, classrooms, etc, but actually woven into the fabric of who we are internally, interpersonally, structurally. WE MUST EMBODY THEM to be relationally resilient with one another.

Just like most of everything else, code switching seems to me to be nuanced and very layered.