Tatiana asks what happens when family members don’t want to share about the past – and how to overcome these obstacles.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
TATIANA: It honestly blew me away. But I’ve tried this journey myself of self-discovery, and I was completely stopped. My uncle stopped me and was like, “You’re opening up a can of worms we don’t want to discuss.” And so as you were going through this process of finding yourself, what obstacles did you reach where your family was like, “No, we’re not going to go there.” Or they were saying, “This is as far as you’re going to go.” or you were like, “No. We need to discuss this. We need to get beyond this.” How were you able to really push through.
FANSHEN: I have to say, first of all, obviously if you are in physical or spiritual danger around confronting family members – I don’t want you to think that I’m like, “Just call him,” like, I get it. Really. It’s really important. Especially when I talk to young people, I’m like, “I know this is not something that’s easy,” and Girl, it took me 7 years. It took me 7 years and a lot of people, when I stopped talking to my father a lot of people said, “Just come on, you can…come on, call.” And I was like, “Nope. I don’t need him, I don’t want him.” And so for me it took my Grandma getting sick and almost dying. So sometimes it might take some catalyst that you can’t even conceive of right now. Because you’re right. Not everybody’s ready to do that. But certainly if you feel safe? Then keep trying.”
