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Choosing Rest Without Rejecting Family
For first-gen professionals, saying yes to every request can feel like love — but it often drains us. Learn how choosing rest without rejecting family can reshape guilt into clarity, using simple scripts for later yes, reframes, and grounded care.
3 min read


Finding Career Clarity as a First-Gen Professional: Adrian’s Story
For first-gen professionals, careers like medicine often carry the weight of family pride and survival. This story explores what happens when the path you chose feels less like your own and more like an inheritance. Learn small practices to begin finding career clarity while redrawing the map.
4 min read


Setting Boundaries Without Guilt as a First-Gen Professional: The Weight of Yes
First-gen professionals often carry family urgency as their own. This story explores how setting boundaries without guilt protects the values you hold—love, respect, safety—while keeping you grounded. Learn how to find the seed of your boundary and use words and actions that honor both your family and yourself.
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We Made It… So Why Do First-Gen Professionals Still Feel So Alone?
On paper, I had made it — Ivy League, Big Law, even a project with BTS. But inside, I felt like I was living someone else’s life.
This is why I built Nurimas Coaching: to help first-gen professionals put down the weight of expectations and design a path that feels like theirs.
4 min read
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